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"Before you express yourself so irrevocably," the Princess said calmly, "I should like you to understand that it is my wish that you accept his offer." "In all ordinary matters," Jeanne answered, "I am prepared to obey you. In this, no! I think that I have the right to choose my husband for myself, or at any rate to approve of whomever you may select. I do not approve of the Count de Brensault.
She tells me that she is going to marry the Count de Brensault, that she has lost her fortune and she is evidently very unhappy. Will you forgive me if I ask you whether this marriage is being forced upon her?" The Princess hesitated. "No," she said, "it is not that. Jeanne told him of her loss of fortune.
De Brensault shrugged his shoulders. "I do not care," he said. "We will keep to our bargain, you and I. In a few days it will be my arm that she shall take, and nobody else's. Perhaps I shall be a little jealous. Who can say? In a little time she will not mind."
De Brensault isn't one of those fellows who improve upon acquaintance. Look, there they are. Nothing very lover-like about that, is there?" De Brensault and Jeanne were crossing the room together. Only the very tips of her fingers rested upon his coat-sleeve, and there was a marked aloofness about her walk and the carriage of her head.
"Then don't you see, Ena," he said, "that this thing really must be hurried forward? De Brensault is ready enough, isn't he?" "Quite," she answered. "And he understands the position?" "I think so," the Princess answered. "I have given him to understand it pretty clearly." "Then have a clear business talk with him," Forrest said, "and then have it out with Jeanne.
Do you think that you could persuade her to leave London so suddenly?" "I am going up-stairs now," the Princess said, "to have a little talk with her. Dine with me here to-night quite quietly, and I will tell you what fortune I have had." De Brensault went away, on the whole fairly content with his visit.
The school where she was brought up was a very, very strict one, and this plunge into life has been a little sudden." "You think, then," De Brensault asked eagerly, "that it is not I personally whom she objects to so much?" "Certainly not," the Princess answered. "It is simply you as the man whom it is proposed that she should marry that she dislikes.
"You were fortunate," he remarked, "to get hold of De Brensault. There are not many of his sort about. I am afraid, though, that he will not make much of an impression upon Jeanne." The Princess' face hardened. "If Jeanne is going to be obstinate," she said, "she must suffer for it. De Brensault is just the man I have been looking for. He wants a young wife, and although he is rich, he is greedy.
"If there was no other man in the world," she said, "or no other way of avoiding starvation, I would not marry the Count de Brensault." The Princess rose slowly to her feet. "Very well," she said, "that ends the matter, of course. I hope you will always remember that it is you who are responsible for anything that may happen now.
There were eight people at dinner, in none of whom she was in the least interested. The Count de Brensault talked a good deal, and very loudly. He spoke of his horses and his dogs and his motor cars, but he omitted to say that he had ceased to ride his horses, and that he never drove his motor car. Jeanne listened to him in quiet contempt, and the Princess fidgetted in her chair.
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