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I wondered if in all the world there was another burgher maiden so great a fool as to lift her eyes to a mighty lord, or to think that he could lower his eyes to her with true intent." At that point in the conversation I felt that the seal upon Max's lips would not stand another attack. It was sure to melt; so I rode to Yolanda's side and interrupted the interesting colloquy.
You ought to answer that you know it; that your father told you on his deathbed to take care of his poor Max. That will stop people's tongues; for every stone in Issoudun can tell you he paid Max's schooling and so! Here's nine years that I have eaten your bread " "Flore, Flore!" " and many a one in this town has paid court to me, I can tell you!
Olga smiled faintly. "It's horrid of you to talk like that." "It's me," said Max. She dried the last of her tears. "What what did you do with him?" "Packed him into the motor and told Mitchel to drive him home." "I wish Mitchel would run into something and kill him!" said Olga, with sudden vehemence. Max's brows went up. "Afraid I didn't give Mitchel instructions to that effect."
I never care for Miss Darrell to speak to me on the subject, although she has been so kind; in fact, no one could have been kinder. We can only act up to our own natures: it is certainly not her fault, but only my misfortune, that her sympathy jars on me. Max's words gave me acute pain. 'Surely you have not chosen Miss Darrell for your confidante, Max?
Max hated Stanton, yet was fascinated by the thought of him: virile, magnetic, compelling; a man among men; greater than his fellows, as the great stars above, flaming into life, were brighter than their dim brothers. The music, which still throbbed and screamed its notes of passion in the desert, seemed to be beating in Max's brain. A horrible irritation possessed him like a devil.
"Thanks to me, the town of Issoudun now knows what Monsieur Maxence Gilet has been doing at night for the last six years," replied Philippe; "and the cackle, as you call it here, is now started on him. Morally his day is over." The moment Philippe left his uncle's house Flore went to Max's room to tell him every particular of the nephew's bold visit. "What's to be done?" she asked.
Notwithstanding this abrupt contrast of black and white, Max's face was very sweet, owing its charm to an outline like that which Raphael gave to the faces of his Madonnas, and to a well-cut mouth whose lips smiled graciously, giving an expression of countenance which Max had made distinctively his own.
He stopped there to speak with them, while Lulu hurried on into the house and up to her own room, Max following. "Where's my book, Lu?" he asked. "O Max, I couldn't help it but papa caught me reading it and took it away from me. And he told me when you asked me for it I should send you to him." Max's face expressed both vexation and alarm. "I sha'n't do that," he said, "if I never get it.
But at last it was all under way. The timbers were hoisted lightly up the side of the spouting house, hooked to the travelling block, and sent whirling down to Max's waiting hands, to be snatched away and piled by the men. But compared with the other method, it was slow work, and Bannon found that, for lack of employment, it was necessary to let half of the men go for the night.
And when he turned away instantly, quite hurt at the unfriendly tone, she caught hold of Max's hand and began the steep descent with a mist, not entirely of the mountains, blinding her eyes.
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