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I shall now have something to say to Madame Kippon." "But you would not marry a Frenchman? That is an impossible thought, Arenta." "No more so than an Englishman. In fact, Englishmen are not to be thought of at all; while Frenchmen are the fashion. Just consider the drawing-rooms of our great American ladies; they are full of French nobles."
So Doctor Moran, being physician and family friend to most of the invited guests, had to listen to such reminiscences and anticipations wherever he went. He knew that he could not talk against the great public current, and that in the excited state of social feeling it would be a kind of treason even to hint disapproval of Arenta, or of any of her friends or doings. But he suffered.
Dear me! how religiously ignorant I am. As for my uncle swearing and the passions that thus express themselves everybody knows that anything that distantly resembles good temper, will suit Captain Jacobus." "You look extremely handsome when you are scornful, Arenta; but it is not worthwhile wasting your charms on me.
Poor Arenta, she was ill with the privations she had suffered, she was half-starved, and nearly without clothing, but she did not complain much until she had been fed, and bathed, and "dressed" as she said "like a New York woman ought to be." "You know what trunks and trunks full of beautiful things I took away with me, Cornelia," she complained; "Well I have not a rag left.
And Arenta not only felt this gracious justice for herself, she looked much further forward, for she said to her father, "It is really for Rem's sake I am so obliging. By and by people will say 'there is no truth in that letter story. The Marquise is the friend of Lady Hyde; they are like clasped hands, and that could not be so, if Rem Van Ariens had done such a dreadful thing.
As for me, I lost all patience with madame's rigmarole of philosophies for I am not inclined to philosophy and indeed I had some difficulty to keep my temper; you know that it is occasionally quite unmanageable." Cornelia smiled understandingly, and answered with a smile, "I hope, however, that you did not put her to death, Arenta." "I have, at least, buried her, as far as I am concerned.
I will give them to you, mother." "They are your own, my dear. I would not give them away." Then Cornelia lifted them, and shyly buried her face in their beauty and sweetness; and afterwards took the card in her hand and read "Lieutenant George Hyde." "But, mother," she said, "Arenta called him Joris." "Joris is George, my dear." "Certainly, I had forgotten.
I know nothing of such things. Come in, I did not think of thee as my friend Van Heemskirk's grandson. Welcome art thou!" and Van Ariens himself opened the parlour door, saying, "Arenta, here is George Hyde. A message he brings for thy Aunt Angelica."
The grandmother of Arenta was French. Very well I remember her a girl all alive, from head to foot; never still. Thy grandfather used to say, 'In her veins is quick-silver, not blood, And, too soon, she wore away her life; Arenta's mother was but a baby, when she died." "Ah! So it is! We are the past, as well as the present. As for myself "
She spoke a little peremptorily indeed, she was in the habit, quite unconsciously of using this tone with her companion, consequently it was not noticed by her. And it was further remarkable, that the girls did not walk down the broad stairs together, but Cornelia went first, and Arenta followed her.
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