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How long would it be, she wondered, before it would survive only in the dry bones of genealogical scandals? As she looked after Rose Stribling's bright green car, darting like some gigantic dragon-fly up the street, her lips quivered with scorn and disgust. "I wonder if she thought I believed her?" she said to herself in a whisper. "I wonder if she thought she could hurt me?"
I wonder, by the way, if they are going to have Mrs. Stribling?" "Rose Stribling?" A gleam of anger shone in Corinna's eyes. "Why should that interest you?" "Oh, they say at least Mrs. Berkeley says, and if there is any misinformation abroad she ought to be aware of it that Mrs. Stribling's latest attachment to her train is the Governor himself."
Berkeley, a short, neutral-tinted man without emphasis of personality, Corinna saw Mrs. Stribling's tall, full figure draped in a gown of jade-coloured velvet, with a daringly short skirt from which a narrow, sharply pointed train wound like a serpent. Her heavy hair, of an unusual shade of pale gold, had the smooth, polished look of metal which had been moulded in waves close to her head.
Stribling's place on board the Alabama will be filled by Midshipman Armstrong, promoted. It will, doubtless, be a matter of some delicacy and management to get the Alabama safely out of British waters without suspicion, as Mr. Adams, the Northern envoy, and his numerous satellites are exceedingly vigilant in their espionage. We cannot, of course, think of arming her in a British port.
Stribling's complaint. I imagine coquetry is a more obstinate malady even than priggishness, and, Heaven knows, I tried hard enough to get rid of that." "I hoped you would," admitted Corinna. "But, dear boy, the way to make you human and you've never been really human all through, you know was not with a uniform and glory."
Mary is in Staunton, where she went a week since to attend Miss Stribling's wedding.... Miss Mary Stewart is staying with us, and I believe is to remain until July, when her sister Belle is to join her. The examination of the students has been progressing a week and will continue until the 20th. The young men have, so far, done very well on the whole.... Mr. Swinton has paid his visit.
Vetch had talked to her as he might have talked to her father or to the husky warrior on her right; but he had never once looked at her. His attention would be arrested by large, sudden, bright things like the rosy curve of Mrs. Stribling's shoulders or the shining ropes of her hair. "How absurd it was to imagine that I could compare with that!" thought Corinna with amusement.
"I have been watching your daughter," she began casually. "She is very pretty." "Yes, she is pretty enough" his tone was playful "but I don't like this craze for short hair." She looked him over calmly. Indirect methods would be wasted on such an opponent. "You must admire Mrs. Stribling's." "I do. Don't you?" His glance roved to the ample beauty beside John Benham.
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