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You plainly found the run of women so unimportant that it put every woman on her pride to prove she was different. Yes, I remember. But that night I thought you were trying to make love to me, and I was disappointed in you, and yes, rather pleased. Women are all vain and perfectly inconsistent. But then, girl-children always take after their fathers." Mrs. Ashmeade rose from her chair.
As it was, she approached Rudolph Musgrave with a fixed purpose this morning as he smoked an after-breakfast cigarette on the front porch of Matocton. And, "Rudolph," said Mrs. Ashmeade, "are you blind?" "You mean ?" he asked, and he broke off, for he had really no conception of what she meant. And Mrs. Ashmeade said, "I mean Patricia and Charteris.
Ashmeade fanned herself in the fashion addicted by perturbed women who, nevertheless, mean to have their say out slowly and impersonally, and quite as if she was fanning some one else through motives of charity. "I don't question," Musgrave said, at length, "that Jack is the highly estimable character you describe.
"My dear madam, it was simply thrown out, in the heat of conversation as an axiom " For a moment the fan paused; then went on as before. It was never charged against Pauline Ashmeade, whatever her shortcomings, that she was given to unnecessary verbiage. Colonel Musgrave was striding up and down, divided between a disposition to swear at the universe at large and a desire to laugh at it.
How curiously life re-echoed itself! he reflected, for here, again, were castby love-letters potent to breed mischief; and his talk with Polly Ashmeade had been peculiarly reminiscent of his more ancient talk with Clarice Pendomer. Everything that happened seemed to have happened before. But presently he shook his head, sighing.
Remained only to deliberate whether this sop to the conventions should be accepted as sufficient. "At least," as Mrs. Ashmeade sagely observed, "we can combine vituperation with common-sense, and remember it is not the first time a Musgrave has figured in an entanglement of the sort. A lecherous race! proverbial flutterers of petticoats! His surname convicts the man unheard and almost excuses him.
It would have been decidedly difficult to live up to such a contract, and as it were to fulfil every one of the implied specifications!" "And yet" here Charteris flicked his cigarette "Anne ruled in the stead of Aline Van Orden. And Aline, in turn, had followed Clarice Pendomer. And before the coming of Clarice had Pauline Romeyne, whom time has converted into Polly Ashmeade, reigned in the land "
Then, too, awoke faint pricking memories of certain symptoms ... which she had not talked about ... Now they alarmed her; and in consequence she took the next morning's train to Lichfield. Mrs. Ashmeade, who has been previously quoted, now comes into the story. She is only an episode.
Ashmeade paused, and her eyes were full of memories, and very wise. "I am only a looker-on at the tragic farce that is being played here," she continued, after a little, "but lookers-on, you know, see most of the game. They are not playing fairly with you, Rudolph.
She accepted these figures as his publishers gave them forth, implicitly; and she marveled over and took odd joy in these figures. They enabled her to admire Charteris's books without reservation. By this time Mrs. Ashmeade had managed, in the most natural manner, to tell Patricia a deal concerning Charteris. No halo graced the portrait Mrs.
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