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"Chrysophrasia! Oh! Is that it?" cried John in discontented tones. "I wish Chrysophrasia would mind her own business, and not talk nonsense!" "It is nonsense, is it not?" "Of course, absolute rubbish! I would not hear of it, to begin with!" he exclaimed, as though that were sufficient evidence that the thing was impossible. "No, indeed," echoed Mrs. Carvel, but in more doubtful tones.
None of them had been to see me before, except Paul, and they at once launched into extravagant praises of the view and of the kiosk. Chrysophrasia raved about the sunset effects, and Hermione was delighted with the way the flags were arranged.
Madame Patoff is perfectly sane; dines with us, drives out, walks, talks, and reads like any other human being, in which she differs materially from Chrysophrasia, who does all these things as they were never done, before or after the flood. We do not know what to make of the situation, but we try to make the best of it. It came about in this way.
Chrysophrasia Dabstreak lay languidly extended upon a couch, her thin hands clasped together in a studied attitude.
Miss Chrysophrasia occasionally strays into the repository of learning, but she has little sympathy with the contents of the shelves. Miss Chrysophrasia Dabstreak is a lady concerning whom there is much speculation, to very little purpose, in the world as represented by the select society in which she droops, not moves. She is an amateur.
The rest of the family were mad with delight. John Carvel grew ten years younger, and Mrs. Carvel fairly cried with joy, while Chrysophrasia declared that it was worth while to be disappointed by the first impression of Constantinople, when one was consoled by such a thrilling tale with so joyous a termination, or happy end, as I should have said.
"In general, cousin Hermione," said Paul, with a polite smile, "you may be sure that any man will make your opinion his. In this case, I submit that both beauty and usefulness are good, and that they need not at all interfere with each other. As for the compliment my aunt Chrysophrasia has paid to us Russians, I do not think we can be said to have gone very far in either direction as yet."
The young girl loves all that is beautiful: not as Chrysophrasia loves it, by sheer force of habitual affectation, without discernment and without real enjoyment, but from the bottom of her heart, from the well-springs of her own beautiful soul; knowing and understanding the great divisions between the graceful and the clumsy, between the true and the false, the lovely and the unlovely.
"I have no doubt you are right; but what were you referring to as a hollow sham?" "You are hopeless, Mary, you have no intuitions. Of course I mean Paul." Even this was not perfectly clear, and Mrs. Carvel looked inquiringly at her sister. "Is it possible you do not understand?" asked Chrysophrasia.
He had deeply felt the truth of what she had said to him in England, that he should be able to silence hints like those Chrysophrasia had let fall, that he should place himself in such a position as to defy insults instead of being obliged to bear them quietly; and the conviction brought home to him by Hermione's words had resulted in his immediate departure, with the determination to fathom the mystery, and to clear himself forever, or to sacrifice his love in case of failure.
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