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Clairette and Jacqueline had inherited their mother's look of race, her fastidiousness and refinement of bearing, while fortunately lacking Claire's dangerous personal beauty, her touch of eccentricity, and her discontent with life or rather with the life which Jacques de Wissant, in spite of a gnawing ache and longing that nothing could still or assuage, yet found good.
Alice, you are growing slanderous. 'Nay, now, Clairette, own verily you feel the like! 'Hush, silly one, what skills it? Youths must pass through temptation; and if his king hindered his vocation, maybe the poor lad may rue it sorely, but methinks he will come to the right at last. It were better to say a prayer for his faults than to speak evil of them, Alice. Poor Malcolm!
Besides, it would be well to get the Scottish king for an ally. Do you know what we two are here for, Clairette? We are both to be betrothed: one to the handsome captive with the gold locks; the other to your hawk-nosed neighbour, who seemed to have not a word to say.
Pol, in whose crowded courtyard Esclairmonde had to dismount; and, after being handed through the hall by King James, to make her way to the ladies' apartments, and there find out, what she was most anxious about, how Alice, who had been riding at some distance from her with her father, had fared under the alarm. Alice ran up to her eagerly. 'Ah, dear Clairette, and was he greatly hurt?
'You misunderstood, Clairette, said Jaqueline. 'No gentleman ever so spoke! No, no; my young lord has kept his promise to me, and I will not fail him. 'Madame, faltered Malcolm, 'I came by command of the King of Scots. 'So much the better, cried Jaqueline. 'So he can play into our hands, for all his grandeur! It will lose him his wager, though!
Admiral de Saint Vilquier will do anything for us Kergouëts; I myself will go to him, and and explain." But Jacques de Wissant scarcely heard the eager, pitiful words. He had thrust his wife from his mind, and her place had been taken by his honour his honour and that of his children, of happy, light-hearted Clairette and Jacqueline.
'To go to Bath with you to-morrow morning, she answered. 'You won't come to Bath! he cried. 'But who will play Clairette? 'I will, of course. 'I don't understand, Kate, Dick replied. 'I only want one day off. Why shouldn't I spend the Sunday in Leamington and go to church? I want a little rest. I can't help it, Dick. 'Well, I never! You seem to get more and more capricious every day.
Hender always looked pleased when questioned about the theatre, but all the stage carpenter had been able to tell her about the company was that it was one of the best travelling; that Frank Bret, the tenor, was supposed to have a wonderful voice; that the amount of presents he received in each town from ladies in the upper ranks of society would furnish a small shop 'It's said that they'd sell the chemises off their backs for him. The stage carpenter had also informed her that Joe Mortimer's performance in the Cloches was extraordinary; he never failed to bring down the house in his big scene; and Lucy Leslie was the best Clairette going.
If I could cure her of jealousy I could cure her of drink. And he thought of all the notices she had had for Clairette, for Serpolette, for Olivette. He would like to see her play the Duchess. At that moment his thoughts returned to the last time he had seen her, about half an hour ago; the memory was not a pleasant one, and he was glad that he had run out of the house and come down to the pier.
'You were the best Clairette I ever saw, Dick answered; 'better than Paola Mariee, and I ought to know, for I rehearsed you both. 'I shall never play Clairette again, Kate said sadly. 'I've lost my figure and the part requires a waist. 'You might get your waist again, Dick said, and the words seemed to him extraordinarily silly, but he had to say something.
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