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To her inflamed pride, it seemed the final insult that he should send such a message and such a reminder, without a word of explanation or plea for pardon. Pardon she never would have granted, but at least he might have had the grace of shame. "Have you read it?" asked the patient voice from without. "Yes. There is no answer." "Dr. Pruyn said there wouldn't be." "Then why are you waiting?"
"Oh no!" he exclaimed, with a new change of mind; "I should look as if I were showing the white feather." "On the contrary, you'd look as if you knew what it was to be a man." "And Derek Pruyn might hold out against me in the end." "It would be time enough, even then, to do what you meant to do to-night; and I'd help you." He hesitated still, till another thought occurred to him.
"Well, if he does come, it won't improve matters any, for the first case he verifies he'll clap on a quarantine that a mouse couldn't creep through. I know something of the Pruyn method." "And don't wholly approve it, I judge." "It may be efficacious, but it's extremely inconvenient at times." Again the cathedral clock boomed.
Soon after this the Emperor ordered the Shogun to come to Kioto with all the Daimios and ascertain the opinion of the country. But the Shogun did not come, so the Emperor sent his envoy, Ohara Sammi, and called the meeting of the Daimios at Yedo in 1862, in which the noted Shimadzu Saburo was also present. In 1864 the council of Daimios was again held, and Minister Pruyn, in his letter to Mr.
When you arrived they naturally thought it was she; and if Derek Pruyn hadn't lost his head when he saw you, he wouldn't have tried to thrust her out of sight as though she were caught in a crime. It was so like a man to do it; a woman would have had a dozen ways of disarming your suspicion, while he did the very thing to arouse it. I don't blame you for thinking what you did not in the least.
Good-night again good-night." Smiling into his eyes, she ignored the hand he held out to her and slipped away into the semi-darkness as the impatient clerk began turning out the lights. Derek Pruyn was guilty of an injustice to the Marquis de Bienville in supposing he would make the incident at Lakefield a topic of conversation among his friends.
Among the few who paid her the tribute of recollection there was the generally received impression that Derek Pruyn, having discovered her relations with the Marquis de Bienville relations which, so they said, had been well known in Paris, in the days when she was still some one had dismissed her from her position in his household.
It seemed to me you couldn't be worse off, not even if you married Derek Pruyn." "It was certainly good of you to give me the opportunity; and if I had only known " "You would have let it slip through your fingers just the same. You're one of the young women who will always stand in their own light.
"Is that your daughter?" she asked, glad to escape from her subject, now that it was stated plainly "the very pretty girl in red?" The question gave Pruyn the excuse he wanted or looking about him. "I believe she's in red but I don't see her." He searched the dimly lighted room, where Mrs. Wappinger sat, silent and satisfied, behind her tea-table, while Mrs.
They were more numerous than they had been for a long time past. The meeting at Lakefield had changed her mental attitude toward Derek Pruyn, taking a large part of the pain out of her thoughts of him, as well as out of his thoughts of her.
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