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Everything could be arranged there very easily. I am quite well-known, and no questions would be asked." The Princess nodded thoughtfully. "That might do," she admitted. "Why not start at once?" De Brensault suggested. "There is nothing to be gained by waiting. We might even leave to-morrow." The Princess shook her head. "You are too impetuous, my dear Count," she said.
It wearies me, because you do not say anything that interests me, and I should very much rather read my book." The Count de Brensault was nonplussed. He looked at Jeanne, and he looked vaguely across the room at the Princess, as though wondering whether he ought to appeal to her. "Have I offended you?" he asked. "Perhaps I have said something that you do not like. I am sorry."
Lately I have noticed a development in Jeanne which I do not altogether understand. She has begun to think for herself most unpleasantly. She plays at being a child with De Brensault, but that is simply because it is the easiest way to repulse him."
I am going to marry the Count de Brensault. I have quite made up my mind. Perhaps you have not heard that it is all a mistake about my having a great fortune. The Count de Brensault is very kind, and he is going to marry me although I have no money." The Duke stared at her for several moments. Then he rang the bell.
I have been gambling, a foolish thing to do, and I do not want to sell my securities, because I know that very soon they will pay me over and over again. Will you do this for me? Remember, I am giving you my word that Jeanne is to be yours." "Make it three thousand," De Brensault said slowly. "Three thousand pounds I will send you a cheque for, to-morrow morning." The Princess nodded.
"I have no idea of marrying the Count de Brensault." The Princess raised herself a little on her couch. "Child," she said, "you would try any one's patience. Only a month or so ago you told me that you were quite indifferent as to whom you might marry. You were content to allow me to select some one suitable." "A few months," Jeanne answered, "are sometimes a very long time.
He crossed the room, and Jeanne's eyes followed his awkward gait with a sudden flash of quiet amusement. She watched him talk to her stepmother, and she saw the Princess' face darken. As a matter of fact De Brensault felt that he had some just cause for complaint. "Dear Princess," he said, "you did not tell me that she was so very farouche, so very shy indeed.
I am proposing, if you are willing, to exercise my authority absolutely. If she shows the slightest reluctance to accept you, I propose that we all go over to Paris. I shall know how to arrange things there." De Brensault smiled. The prospect of winning Jeanne at any cost became more and more attractive to him.
Her head was resting upon a sofa pillow, deep orange coloured, against which the purity of her complexion, the delicate lines of her eyebrows, the shapeliness of her exquisite mouth, were all more than ever manifest. She read with interest, and without turning her head away from the pages of the book which she held in long, slender fingers. De Brensault sighed as he turned away.
I want you to help me a little." "What is it that I can do?" he asked. "Let me have five thousand pounds on account of what you are going to give me, to-morrow morning," she said coolly. De Brensault hesitated. He was prepared to pay for what he wanted, but five thousand pounds was nevertheless a great deal of money. "I would not ask you," the Princess continued, "if I were not really hard up.
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