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"Why do you speak as if the money had come to both?" asked Miss Sherman, with a curious inflection of the voice. "Did I? I did not realize it. But I will not change my words; for, unless I mistake much, the money will be Bettina's as much as Barbara's, and this, because Barbara will have it so." The words were hardly spoken by Mrs. Douglas when Mr.
And remember one thing, which gives me some right to speak to you as I am doing now I loved your mother and she also loved me." At these words and the tones that accompanied them Bettina's strength gave way. She dropped back in the seat from which she had risen, and, hiding her face in her hands, burst into tears.
"Her eyes are fine enough, but their expression comes from their color, their size, and their preposterously long eyelashes. Black long lashes often give a radiance to the eyes which passes for expressiveness, and I doubt not " "Nonsense, Sarah!" I cried, half angrily. "Bettina's eyes are expressive in themselves.
But Bettina's love of the people, as of every cause in which she was interested, was genuine and not to be quenched; she acted upon the maxim once expressed by Emerson, "Every brave heart must treat society as a child, and never allow it to dictate."
The shame was for her and not for me. I had only one wish, namely, to find out whether the two brothers Feltrini, Cordiani's companions, had likewise shared Bettina's favours. Bettina put on throughout the day a cheerful and happy look.
Together they talked of the great drama which imagination enhances; and Bettina carried with her to the grave her sister's ignorance, leaving her, if not informed, at least thirsting for information. Nevertheless, remorse had set its fangs too sharply in Bettina's heart not to force her to warn her sister. In the midst of her own confessions she had preached duty and implicit obedience to Modeste.
Somehow these civil, reassuring words smote painfully upon Bettina's consciousness. When this woman spoke so confidently of Lord Hurdly's doing the handsome thing by his former heir, she felt it to be the hollow tribute of a conventional loyalty, and the assurance that it was understood that she herself had done him no harm grated on her also.
However, she received Paul very kindly, so kindly that for several days he had the weakness to misunderstand her. He believed that it was his personal graces which had obtained for him this very flattering and cordial reception. It was a great mistake. Paul de Lavardens had been introduced by Jean; he was the friend of Jean. In Bettina's eyes, therein lay all his merit. Mrs.
Yet the reading of this little paper had stirred a feeling in Bettina's heart which she had not felt for so long a time a yearning tenderness for some object outside herself: a longing that her health and strength might avail for others bereft of these blessings.
"My very best." "Very quietly, without thinking of anything?" "Very quietly, without thinking of anything." "Very well, then." Ten minutes after, Bettina's pretty head rested gently amid embroideries and lace. Susie said to her sister: "I am going down to those people who bore me dreadfully this evening. Before going to my own room, I shall come back and see if you are asleep. Do not speak.
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