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Her eager questions especially drew from him with a greed insatiable account of all the gayeties of that mysterious existence. "And that aunt of yours Muss Aluth Aluth " "Miss Alathea Layson?" he inquired, and smiled. "Yes; what queer names the women have, down there! Is she pretty? Does she dress in silks and satins, too, like the girls that go to them big dances?" He laughed.
For one second a fear came to me that after all perhaps it is real hate she has for me, which will be unsurmountable, and I was impelled to ask her: "Alathea, do you detest the idea of marrying me so much that you would rather break the whole thing?" She turned and faced me now, and I feel sure blue fire was coming from those beautiful eyes, could I have seen them!
"Miss 'Lethe," he said stammering, "lawn party to-night bouquet for you brought it from Lexington for you for you, you know." The Colonel never was embarrassed save when he was endeavoring to propose marriage to Miss Alathea and he always was embarrassed then. She recognized the situation from the mere tone of his voice and looked up hopefully.
Through the gay crowd old Neb was wandering, disconsolate, burdened with the melancholy news of the defection of the miserable jockey, looking, everywhere, for Miss Alathea Layson, but without success. He stopped upon a corner, weary of the search and of the woe which weighed him down.
"I see that you would rather not answer to-day, Miss Sharp you might prefer to go now and think about it?" "Thank you." She turned and walked back into the little salon without a word more, and when she went I closed my eye exhausted with the great strain. But I did not feel altogether hopeless until Burton came in to tell me lunch was ready and said that Alathea had gone.
"May you know every happiness, Lady Thormonde," he said. "Take care of Nicholas and make him quite well, he is the best fellow on earth." Alathea thanked him coldly. He is such a citizen of the world that he showed no surprise, and finally we were off on our way to the flat. Here Madame Bizot and her daughter, and the baby, awaited us! And in the creature's tiny hand was a bunch of violets.
"How've they kept him single?" "He's been in love with my Aunt Alathea for a good many years, but she won't marry him until he keeps his promise to avoid the race-tracks." "What makes your aunt hate hawsses?" "Oh, she loves good horses, but the Colonel always bets, and, as I have said, it keeps him poor. It's the gambling that she hates, and not the horses.
"If you did, I should not be jealous," said the Colonel with an air of generosity. "Miss 'Lethe, kiss me. Won't I do as well?" Madge asked, going to her. Miss Alathea kissed her, but was still thinking of the unknown jockey, who, in the nick of time, had come from nowhere, materialized from nothing, to save the day for Frank by riding Queen Bess to victory.
I am far from serenity, I fear for I am filled with unrest I try to tell myself that Alathea Sharp does not matter in my life at all that this is the end that I am not to be influenced by her movements or her thoughts, or her comings and goings I try not to think of her even as "Alathea" And then when I have succeeded in some measure in all this, a hideous feeling of sinking comes over me that physical sensation of a lead weight below the heart.
Burton is the only person whose sympathy I could count upon! How about the Duchesse? that is the deepest mystery of all I must find out from Burton what was the date about when she came to my appartement and found Alathea. Was it before that time when she asked me if I were in love and I saw that dear little figure in the passage? Could she have been thinking of her ?
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