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Gerfaut was very indignant at the sight of this perfidious manoeuvre, the intention of which he immediately divined; and his rage wanted only provocation to break out in full force. One evening they were all gathered in the drawing-room with the exception of Aline, whom a reprimand from Mademoiselle de Corandeuil had exiled to her room.
Indeed, he had only been waiting for his loutish son George to finish his wild-oat sowing before communicating the news of her good fortune to Miss Aline. He was still more astonished on the way home from Ladykirk. An officer, riding, checked at his approach, and, with a sketched salute, reined his steed long enough to ask, "Do you know where Mr. Julian Wemyss is to be found?
Mademoiselle, I have just beaten Christian two games; is it not glorious? He made only eighteen points in a single game. Pere Rousselet, I have just beaten Christian! Do you know how to play billiards?" "Mademoiselle Aline, I am absolutely ignorant of the game," replied the old man, with as gracious a smile as was possible, while he tried to recover his equilibrium.
I admit that poor Aline is not a shining example of the formidable modern woman; but " She stopped. "Oh, bother! I've just thought of what I ought to have said the good repartee that would have crushed you. I suppose it's too late now?" "Not at all. I'm like that myself only it is generally the next day when I hit the right answer.
The female of the species is more deadly than the male. Probably she makes a better purloiner of scarabs. At any rate, there the footprint was, unmistakably feminine. Inspiration came to him. Aline Peters had a maid! What more likely than that secretly she should be a hireling of Mr. Peters, on whom he had now come to look as a man of the blackest and most sinister character? Mr.
He couldn't have known he couldn't have known anything!" Ashe's enthusiasm was a trifle damped. "There's something in that. But I have it! Jones must have known about the scarab and told him." "But how could he have known?" "Yes; there's something in that, too. How could Jones have known?" "He couldn't. He had gone by the time Aline came that night." "I don't quite understand. Which night?"
I would not for the world that M. de La Tour d'Azyr should know you so extraordinarily instructed. Had you been properly reared in a convent this would never have happened to you." "But you do not answer me, madame!" cried Aline in despair. "It is not my chastity that is in question; but that of M. de La Tour d'Azyr." "Chastity!" Madame's lips trembled with horror. Horror overspread her face.
She really was good. She had asked his advice. Now he would ask hers. "Mrs. West and I will talk over a plan I have for you," he said to the girl. "Is it your plan or hers?" asked Barrie anxiously. "It will be both by the time you hear it," he answered, with a reassuring smile. Aline humoured him. "Run away and play, little girl, till the plan is cooked," she gayly cried. "Play with my brother."
There were two photographs on the page. One was of Aline; the other of a heavy, loutish-looking youth, who wore that expression of pained glassiness which Young England always adopts in the face of a camera.
"Where is Monsieur de Bergenheim?" "Monsieur le Baron is playing billiards with Mademoiselle Aline." "Send Leonard Rousselet here." And Mademoiselle de Corandeuil settled herself back in her chair with the dignity of a chancellor about to hold court. The servants in the castle of Bergenheim formed a family whose members were far from living in harmony.
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