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The deception had been small, and perhaps intended in some mysterious way to be "for his own good"; but it had been a distinct deception and no better than a lie. He was sure of that. He went upstairs slowly and Regina met him at the door of their rooms, and took his hat and stick without a word, for she saw that something had happened, and she felt suddenly cold. He was quite unlike himself.
Danger hemmed in Valerie on every side; she foresaw a discussion with Crevel, and could not allow Hulot to be in her room, where he could hear all that went on. And the Brazilian was upstairs with Lisbeth. "Really, you men, when you have a notion in your head, you would burn a house down to get into it!" exclaimed she. "Lisbeth is not in a fit state to admit you.
I wrapped myself up in the sheets and pretended to be asleep. He rang a second time. "Veronica, Veronica," he cried, "my posset; what are you doing then? Have you forgotten it? Veronica!" I turned a deaf ear. "One is compelled sometimes to say to oneself, 'On what does ruin or safety depend?" Then I heard him come upstairs cautiously and stop at the door of my room. All at once he opened it.
Across the gulch the Kohlers' little house slept among its trees, a dark spot on the white face of the desert. The windows of their upstairs bedroom were open, and Paulina had listened to the dance music for a long while before she drowsed off. She was a light sleeper, and when she woke again, after midnight, Johnny's concert was at its height. She lay still until she could bear it no longer.
The next day matters came to a crisis in the little upstairs sitting-room which had been assigned me as a study during my visit. I turned round and then got up at the sight of her. I quite forget what our conversation was about, but I know she led me to believe I might kiss her. Then when I attempted to do so she averted her face. "How COULD you?" she said; "I didn't mean that!"
The servants had long since gone to bed; he alone was awake in the whole big house. He moved cautiously down the long corridor towards the green baize doors, fully aware that it was not the proper way upstairs.
I'm tired. He sealed and dropped it into the box for the evening post, and hearing it fall to the bottom, thought: 'There goes all I've looked forward to! That evening after dinner which he scarcely touched, after his cigar which he left half-smoked for it made him feel faint, he went very slowly upstairs and stole into the night-nursery. He sat down on the window-seat.
"Why don't you buy some with the money you earn here?" "Savin' up for the Fourth." "Well, I have yards of old Christmas ribbons that I'll give you if you'll use them." "All right." "What do you scrub your face with, that makes those shiny knobs stick right out on your forehead and cheek bones?" "Sink soap." "Well, you shouldn't; haven't you any other?" "It's upstairs."
"Of course, when I heard her voice, I was upstairs two steps at a time, with the cat under my arm clawing like a vixen. She was perfectly freezing at first not the cat; it's a he; I mean Emily. But after I explained that when I'd gotten to care for her I only tried to help her, she oh, well, I'm going to let her tell you herself, if you're willing, sir!
"What is the matter now?" Eugene inquired of Sylvie. "Lord! everybody is going about his business, and that has addled her wits. There! she is crying upstairs. It will do her good to snivel a bit. It's the first time she has cried since I've been with her." By the morning, Mme. Vauquer, to use her own expression, had "made up her mind to it."
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