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Henri, who from the hillside a mile or more back had watched with ghastly face, was the only one who understood the accident, and he kept silent! The Duchess of Clonarty was famous for doing the right thing. Three weeks after the return of Julien and Lady Anne to London, she gave a large dinner-party in their honor.
"Whatever put that into your head?" she inquired, going on with her work. He hesitated. It was in his mind to tell her of that evening at Clonarty, to speak of it, to recall that one wave of emotion on which, indeed, they might have floated into a completer understanding. He looked at her steadfastly. She was very graceful, very good to look upon.
Do you think that I have not seen that Lady Anne Clonarty, the girl whom you were engaged to marry, disappeared from her home the other day, on the eve of her marriage to another man? It is this girl who comes to me for my situation, is it not so?" Julien was silent. "I knew nothing of her coming. I did not even know that you wanted a secretary."
I have restored her son to Madame la Princesse. We are reunited. Henceforth my wishes are the wishes also of madame. You will present me? It is Lady Anne Clonarty, I believe?" They were both bewildered. For the moment Falkenberg was supreme. He bowed low upon the hesitating words of introduction. "Dear Lady Anne," he murmured, "do not be prejudiced against me.
I was content to forget, perhaps, that I was a man, I strove fervently and desperately to develop into the perfect political machine. From that point of view, nobody in England would have made me a better wife than Lady Anne Clonarty." She nodded. "What a blessing that you wrote that letter!" "I don't know," he replied. "I still think it was a great misfortune.
Madame Christophor's eyes twinkled. "Once," she declared, "I met the Duke of Clonarty. I also met the Duchess, I also saw Lady Anne. They were traveling in great state through Italy. It was in Rome that I came across them. The Duchess was very affable to me. I think you have rightly expressed your affair of the heart, my friend. It was to have been an alliance!" Julien was thoughtful.
There was a short delay, then the door was opened. A young woman peered out. "Who is it?" she asked quickly. A little of Lady Anne's confidence for the moment had almost deserted her. The girl's face was invisible and the interior of the passage looked cheerless. Nevertheless, she answered briskly. "Don't you remember me, Mademoiselle Janette? I am Lady Anne Lady Anne Clonarty, you know."
She said that her name was Miss Anne Clonarty and she referred me to you." "If she is the lady whom I suppose she is," Julien replied, "you will be perfectly safe in engaging her." Madame Christophor looked at him from underneath the lids of her eyes. "Do you think that I do not know?" she asked, with a shade of contempt in her tone, "that I do not sometimes read the papers?
It was foolish that his heart should shake, even for a second. And yet there had been one occasion at Clonarty when she had lain very close to him in his arms, and the moonlight had been falling through the pine trees in little dappled places around them, and the wind had been making faint music among the swinging boughs for these few moments, at any rate, the other things had shone in her face.
I learn that through a single indiscretion not only were you forced to relinquish a great political career, but that you were forced also to give up the lady for whom you cared." "You have ingenious correspondents," he remarked. "Truthful ones, are they not?" "I was engaged to marry Lady Anne Clonarty," he admitted. "It was, if I may venture to say so, an alliance."
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