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Lyon at length fell into conversation with the lady beside him they dispensed, as he had had to dispense at dinner-parties before, with an introduction by asking who this personage might be. 'Oh, he's Colonel Capadose, don't you know? Lyon didn't know and he asked for further information.
This was the repetition of a proposal Mrs. Capadose had made on the occasion of his last visit to her, and he had then asked for a delay declared that he was by no means content. He was really delighted, and he was again a little ashamed of himself.
Capadose said before she went away that her husband would probably comply with his invitation, but she added, 'Nothing would induce me to let you pry into me that way! 'Oh, you, Lyon laughed 'I could do you in the dark! The Colonel shortly afterwards placed his leisure at the painter's disposal and by the end of July had paid him several visits.
'You didn't think so when I proposed to you. 'Well, if I had married you I couldn't have married him and he's so nice, Mrs. Capadose said. Lyon knew she thought it he had learned that at dinner but it vexed him a little to hear her say it. The gentleman designated by the pronoun came up, amid the prolonged handshaking for good-night, and Mrs.
Regard her as he might he could not make out to himself that she was consumed by a hidden shame; the sense of being married to a man whose word had no worth was not, in her spirit, so far as he could guess, the canker within the rose. 'What manner? said Mrs. Capadose. 'Dear me, how can one describe one's husband? I like him very much.
Providence won't let you be so disinterested painting masterpieces for nothing. 'Did you see the woman? Lyon demanded, with something like a sternness that he could not mitigate. Mrs. Capadose appeared not to perceive it or not to heed it if she did. 'There was a person, not far from your door, whom Clement called my attention to. He told me something about her but we were going the other way.
'Do you mean his wife that fellow's? And Lyon indicated the subject of the information given him by his other neighbour. 'Oh, is he Mr. Capadose? said the young man, who appeared very vague. He admitted his vagueness and explained it by saying that there were so many people and he had come only the day before. What was definite to Lyon was that Mrs.
Capadose objected to this that she really could not consent to accept another present of such value. Lyon had given her the portrait of herself of old, and he had seen what they had had the indelicacy to do with it.
Your husband mentioned the transaction. 'Oh, my husband, said Mrs. Capadose; and Lyon saw that she coloured a little. Not to add to her embarrassment, but to clear up the ambiguity, which he perceived the next moment he had better have left alone, he went on: 'He tells me it's now in his collection. 'In the Grand Duke's? Ah, you know its reputation?
Capadose flung herself away from her husband she dropped into the nearest chair, buried her face in her arms, leaning on a table. Her weeping suddenly ceased to be audible, but she shuddered there as if she were overwhelmed with anguish and shame. Her husband remained a moment staring at the picture; then he went to her, bent over her, took hold of her again, soothed her.
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