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Amaryllis again did not question him; she felt he knew best. "She has been most successful here, and at the Bridgeborough ball she amused herself with a German officer, and left the other women's men alone. He was brought by the party from Broomgrove and was most empresse; he got introduced to her at once just after we came in. I expect they will bring him to-night.
"I heard him ask Mrs. Nordenheimer, his hostess, who she was, in his guttural voice, and Mrs. Nordenheimer came up to me and presented him and asked me to introduce him to my guest. So I did. The Nordenheimers are those very rich German Jews who bought Broomgrove Park some years ago. Every one receives them now." "And how did Harietta welcome this partner?"
But where were his host and hostess he must bid them farewell. John Ardayre was valsing with Lady Avonwier and Harietta Boleski undulated in the arms of the tall German who had come with the party from Broomgrove but Amaryllis for the moment was absent from the room. "If I could only know who the beast is before I go, and where she has met him previously!" Verisschenzko's thoughts ran.
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