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Against eyes you were tolerably safe, though not against ears; but this is of very secondary importance. Flora sank down on a convenient causeuse, still panting slightly not from breathlessness, but past excitement the ground-swell after the storm. "Ah! what a waltz!" she said, with a sigh. "And what a pity it is so nearly the last!
As it was out of the question that my sister should again visit the family room, the causeuse was brought into her chamber, where it was made to perform the office to which it had been several times devoted in its proper apartment since my return from sea.
Like lightning the fan closed, fell upon the unlucky index of my left hand, which was thoughtlessly reposing upon the arm of the causeuse, and nearly knocked off the first joint, by way of reward for my reluctant compliance with her feminine wishes. "Excuse me, Señora," I said, after I had recovered my breath, "but you are very unjust.
As if I had anything to do with the galère, except to sit down in it, the most helpless of galley-slaves, and blindly submit to the gyves and chains of Madame de Marignan, who, regarding me as the lawful captive of her bow and spear, carried me off at once to a vacant causeuse in a distant corner.
'A charming man, and a great friend of mine oh, a very old friend. Let me bring him. She rustled away, and Mrs. Rolfe sank back on to the causeuse from which she had newly risen. Quickly the hostess returned, and, in the track she made through crowded clusters of people who stood talking, there followed a gentleman of easy carriage, with handsome features and thin hair.
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