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Mrs. Reffold gave no reply, but she made a resolution to write to her particular friend at Cannes and confide to her how very trying her husband had become. "I suppose it is part of his illness," she thought meekly. "But it is hard to have to bear it." And Mrs. Reffold pitied herself profoundly. She stitched sincere pity for herself into that piece of embroidery.
A few years since, it was a very small place indeed, but can now boast of its sixty large hotels; and new roads and boulevards are being opened in all directions. Cannes stretches along the sea-shore from north to south, and is protected from the mistral and other cold winds by the fine Esterel mountain range.
And that watre, thei seyn, is of here teres: for so moche watre thei wepten, that made the forseyde lake. And in the botme of that lake, men fynden many precious stones and grete perles. In that lake growen many reedes and grete cannes; and there with inne ben many cocodrilles and serpentes and grete watre leches.
"What difference, Pontiac or Cannes, like the Great Master after Elba," he said. "The principle is the same." "The money?" "It will come," he answered. "I have friends and hopes." She almost laughed. She was suddenly struck by the grotesqueness of the situation. But she saw how she had hurt him, and she said instantly: "Of course, with those one may go far. Sit down and tell me all your plans."
"Oh well, perhaps," and the sallow of her cheeks had turned to a fine dusky red as she ran upstairs. Thus it happened that a second letter for John Ashforth and a second letter for Mary Travers left Cannes that night.
Tropez, the Lerius Islands, and the gulfs of Cannes and Jouar, the Dobryna arrived upon the site of the Cape of Antibes.
Lady Maulevrier wrote her consent to the extension of Lesbia's visit, and by return of post came a letter from Lesbia which seemed brimming over with love, and which comforted the grandmother's wounded heart. 'Lady Kirkbank and I are both agreed, dearest, that you must join us at Cannes, wrote Lesbia. 'At your age it is very wrong of you to spend a winter in our horrible climate.
He would linger over the accounts; would bring her little presents; and, above all, he made a pet and favourite of Pierre, the little cousin, who could tell him about all the ways of going on of Mam'selle Cannes, as Virginie was called.
"How did I find out Sir Charles was dead? I didn't, at least, not till a little while ago when I arrived in Cannes and rang up the house. But I knew he wasn't expected to live more than a day or two. You see, I've been in communication with Chalmers more or less during the past few days. I asked him to keep me posted in case the old man got worse or anything.
The name, he confessed, escaped him, but if Monsieur pleased He produced the visitors' book, in which Rainham read, scarcely now with surprise, the brief inscription, "Mr. and Mrs. Lightmark, from Cannes." There was a ceaseless hum of voices in the labyrinth of brilliant rooms, with their atmosphere of transient spring sunshine and permeating, faint odour of fresh paint.
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