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"Nice thing his Majesty has just told me!" cried Prince Michael, with owl-like gravity. "He says that Stampoff and he have disagreed. What has gone wrong? Have you heard of this most unfortunate estrangement, Monsieur Nesimir?" The President, of course, assumed that some allusion had been made already to the scene in the Council chamber.
The enemy had now been in the valley more than an hour, and the movements of the two parties were soon related. "Are you alone, dearest Maud? are you shut out by this sudden inroad?" demanded the major, with concern and surprise. "So it would seem. I can see no other though I did think Michael might be somewhere near me, in the woods, here; I at first mistook your footsteps for his."
When Michael had on his bottle-green swallow-tailed coat with the brass buttons, he invariably assumed a certain lofty air of ceremony in addressing his companions. "It is sorter pleasant to look at," returned Stevens, "but it don't seem to me an idea that would work.
Millicent Mervill was no fool. She meant to keep to her word, and did. The evening's excursion proved a great success and restored Michael to a more normal state of mind.
At last I felt convinced I knew, by intangible yet unmistakable signs, which was he who had done it. I grew quite sure. And then I hardly know how to tell you, Jim of all impossible horrors! The man who had killed Michael wanted to marry me! Oh, don't groan, darling; you make me so unhappy! But I do not wonder you find it difficult to believe.
If only that strange turn of fate had not brought Lord Fordyce into her life, what glorious pleasure she would now take in trying her uttermost to fascinate and attract Michael not that she desired him for herself! only to punish him for all the past! But she was not free. She had given her word to Henry.
As Michael left it Fay's excitement dropped from her, and she became conscious of an enormous fatigue. A few minutes later she dragged herself up the great pictured staircase to her little boudoir overlooking the garden, and sank down exhausted on a couch. Her pretty Italian maid was waiting for her in the adjoining bedroom, and came to her, and began to unfasten her jewels.
Lady Ingleby's mind had paused at the beginning of Jim's tirade. "They could not have taken Michael's kudos," she said. "It must have been patented. He was always most careful to patent all his inventions." "Eh, what?" said Jim Airth. "Oh, I see. 'Kudos, my dear girl, means 'glory'; not a new kind of explosive. And why do you call Lord Ingleby 'Michael'?"
As Michael sat down amid a burst of applause such as is given to few speakers, another man stepped to the front of the platform; and the cheers of commendation were hushed somewhat, only to swell and break forth again; for this man was one of the city's great minds, and always welcome on any platform. He had been asked to make the final appeal for funds for the playgrounds.
For, as he stood beneath the many soft lights in front of the wall of living green and blossoms, with his white face and grave sweet dignity, they forgot for once to study the fashion of his coat, and sat awed before his beautiful face; for Michael wore to-night the look of transport with chin uplifted, glowing eyes, and countenance that showed the spirit shining through.
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