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Capadose said to him, 'But can nothing be done, can't the picture be repaired? You know they do such wonders in that way now, he only replied, 'I don't know, I don't care, it's all over, n'en parlons plus! Her hypocrisy revolted him.
'Yes; but if she is not really the model she pretends to be, how can that hurt her? Lyon asked. The inquiry baffled the Colonel an instant but only an instant. 'Ah, she was in a vicious muddle! As I say, she's off her head. They went into the dining-room, where Mrs. Capadose was taking her place. 'It's too bad, it's too horrid! she said. 'You see the fates are against you.
Then he had reflected that they would have come by the underground railway; he was close to the Marlborough Road station and he knew the Colonel, coming to his sittings, more than once had availed himself of that convenience. 'How in the world did she get in? He addressed the question to his companions indifferently. 'Let us go down to luncheon, said Mrs. Capadose, passing out of the room.
You see India's a strange country there's an element of the mysterious: the air is full of things you can't explain. They passed out of the dining-room, and Colonel Capadose, who went among the first, was separated from Lyon; but a minute later, before they reached the drawing-room, he joined him again. 'Ashmore tells me who you are.
'Ah, then, you think I've got something? 'You've got everything, said Mrs. Capadose, smiling from her golden-brown eyes. 'She wrote you of our little crime? her husband asked. 'She dragged me there I had to go. Lyon wondered for a moment whether he meant by their little crime the assault on the canvas; but the Colonel's next words didn't confirm this interpretation.
Colonel Capadose appeared to be aware of nothing, and this circumstance, incongruously enough, rather irritated Lyon than gratified him. Suddenly the lady turned her head, showing her full face to our hero. He was so prepared with a greeting that he instantly smiled, as a shaken jug overflows; but she gave him no response, turned away again and sank back in her chair.
All the gentlemen collected at Stayes were not smokers and some of them had gone to bed. Colonel Capadose remarked that there probably would be a smallish muster, they had had such a hard day's work.
Fancy that thing in the Academy! 'You're going wild, darling; but if you hate it so it needn't go. 'Oh, he'll send it it's so good! Come away come away! Mrs. Capadose wailed, seizing her husband. 'It's so good? the poor man cried. 'Come away come away, she only repeated; and she turned toward the staircase that ascended to the gallery.
You see I'm generous. 'Yes; you must know him well, Mrs. Capadose repeated. 'He has seen a great deal of life, said her companion. 'Yes, we have been in so many places. You must see my little girl. She is nine years old she's too beautiful. 'You must bring her to my studio some day I should like to paint her. 'Ah, don't speak of that, said Mrs. Capadose.
General Capadose was an old crony, and he remembered his father before him. The general was rather a smart soldier, but in private life of too speculative a turn always sneaking into the City to put his money into some rotten thing. He married a girl who brought him something and they had half a dozen children.
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