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Mme. de Brecourt stared; she evidently thought that kind of sensibility implied an initiation and into dangers which a little American accidentally encountered couldn't possibly have. "Why should she be frightened? She wouldn't be even if she had known who I was; much less therefore when I was nothing for her."
That's the sort of thing he does know. And he knows quite as well that I'm very difficult to place." "You'll be difficult, my dear, if we lose you," Mme. de Brecourt laughed, "to replace!" "Always at any rate to find a wife for. I'm neither fish nor flesh. I've no country, no career, no future; I offer nothing; I bring nothing. What position under the sun do I confer?
Mme. de Cliche was with their parent in fact she had three days in the week for coming to the Cours la Reine; she sat near him in the firelight, telling him presumably her troubles, for, Maxime de Cliche having proved not quite the pearl they had originally supposed, Mme. de Brecourt knew what Marguerite did whenever she took that little ottoman and drew it close to the paternal chair: she gave way to her favourite vice, that of dolefulness, which lengthened her long face more: it was unbecoming if she only knew it.
She saw you afterwards walking with him in the Bois." "Well, I didn't see her," the girl said. "You were talking with him you were too absorbed: that's what Margot remembers. Oh Francie, Francie!" wailed Mme. de Brecourt, whose distress was pitiful. "She tried to interfere at the studio, but I wouldn't let her. He's an old friend a friend of poppa's and I like him very much.
It's your father he ought to understand," said Mr. Probert. "For God's sake don't send for him let it all stop!" And Mme. de Cliche made wild gestures. Francie looked at her as she had never looked at any one in her life, and then said: "Good-bye, Mr. Probert good-bye, Susan." "Give her your arm take her to the carriage," she heard Mme. de Brecourt growl to her husband.
Mme. de Brecourt came out to meet her in the vestibule, drawing her quickly into a small room not the salon; Francie knew it as her hostess's "own room," a lovely boudoir in which, considerably to the girl's relief, the rest of the family were not assembled. Yet she guessed in a moment that they were near at hand they were waiting.
"You'd do well to read it it's worth the trouble," Alphonse de Brecourt remarked, going over to his wife. Francie saw him kiss her as he noted her tears. She was angry at her own; she choked and swallowed them; they seemed somehow to put her in the wrong. "Have you had no idea that any such monstrosity would be perpetrated?" Mme. de Cliche went on, coming nearer to her.
Mme. de Brecourt went so far as to believe that his wife, in confirmation of this, took herself for a species of Mme. de Maintenon: she had lapsed into a provincial existence as she might have harked back to the seventeenth century; the world she lived in seemed about as far away.
"It's quite at your service!" But as Francie neither spoke nor took it she tossed it upon the sofa, where, as it opened, falling, the girl read the name of the Reverberator. Mme. de Cliche carried her head very far aloft. "She has nothing to do with it it's just as I told you she's overwhelmed," said Mme. de Brecourt, remaining at the window.
When she begged him to tell her what he was talking about and what he wanted them all to do with the child he said: "I want you to treat her kindly, tenderly, for such as you see her I'm thinking of bringing her into the family." "Mercy on us you haven't proposed for her?" cried Mme. de Brecourt.
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