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There's almost invariably something petty about a man to whom a woman isn't a puzzle and a mystery." "If it comes to a puzzle and a mystery, I don't know where you'd find a greater one than Derek Pruyn himself. After the way he's acted and treated people " Diane flushed, but kept her emotions sufficiently under control to be able to follow her usual plan of straightforward speaking.
Greetings having been exchanged, it was Miss Lucilla's policy to draw her uncle away to some other room, leaving Marion free to have her conference with Pruyn; but the old man settled himself in his chair again, with no intention of quitting the field. Derek, too, entered on the task of dislodging him, but without success.
"I knew you'd understand that one can be a foolish woman without having been a wicked one. Mr. Pruyn would not have been so hard on me if he had thought of that." "Shall I go and tell him?" "No; it's too late. The wrong that's been done needs a more radical remedy than you or I could bring to it. Bienville has lied, and I must force him to retract. Nothing else can help me."
We can honor him, in certain ways in certain ways, Raoul almost more than if he had never done wrong at all. None of us would condemn him, or cast a stone at him should we, Lucilla? should we, Mr. Pruyn?" "No, no," Miss Lucilla sobbed. "We'd pity him; we'd take him to our hearts." "She's right, Bienville," Derek muttered, nodding toward Marion. "Better do just as she says." "I'm a Frenchman.
Accordingly, on a bright May morning, within a few days of the last meeting between Derek Pruyn and Diane Eveleth, she sallied forth to the fashionable quarter where Mrs. Bayford dwelt, coming home, some two hours later, with a considerably extended knowledge of the possibilities inherent in human nature.
Though he could scarcely be surprised to see Diane sitting by her, he stopped on the threshold, with signs of embarrassment, and made as though he would withdraw. Overwhelmed by the responsibilities of such a moment, Miss Lucilla looked appealingly at Diane, who rose. "Don't go, Mr. Pruyn," she said, forcing herself to show firmness. "You arrive very opportunely.
If the secret spring worked by James van Tromp had been an active agency in bringing Diane and Derek Pruyn once more together, as well as in creating the intimacy that sprang up during the next two months between Miss Lucilla and the elder Mrs.
But I do get it; and I do know something is in the wind, more than what is told to you and I." "One can only hope that it will be nothing foolish," Diane murmured, guardedly. "It will be something foolish," Mrs. Wappinger declared, "and you may take my word for it. Derek Pruyn can't arrogate to himself the powers of the Lord above any more than we can.
During the interval he devoted his attention to the business of banking. His successor in the Fortieth Congress is John V. L. Pruyn. HENRY GRIDER was born in Kentucky, July 16, 1796. He was a private in the last war with England. He subsequently divided his attention between agriculture and law. In 1827 and 1831 he was elected to the Legislature of Kentucky, and in 1833 to the State Senate.
The pines surrounding the hotel shot up weirdly against the midnight sky, soughing with a low murmur, like the moan of primeval nature. Up the ascent from the main road the carriage crept wearily, while Diane's heart poured itself out in a sort of incoherent prayer that Dorothea might have arrived before her father. The horses dragged themselves to the steps, and Derek Pruyn sprang out.
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