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In contrast to his deliberate insufficiency the old lady's thin voice was silvery and precise. Out of some bit of obscure wilfulness, roused by his being an Englishman, she accentuated her Parisian affectations. "I'm very much delighted, Col-on-el," she said, giving the military title its three distinct French syllables, "but you must not think me better than I am.
I want a great many things; but when I've sifted them all, I think I want that more than anything else." Ashley bowed. "We shall always feel greatly indebted " he began, endeavoring to be more elegant than in his words of a few minutes earlier. "I want her to be happy, Col-on-el. She deserves it. She's a noble creature, with a heart of gold and a spirit of iron. And she loves me, I think."
She ignored the hoarse suffering in his voice to take another puff or two at her cigarette. "Ma foi, Col-on-el, he didn't have to." "Did he say " He swallowed hard, and began again, more hoarsely: "Did he say she was in love with with him?" There was a hint of rebuke in her tone. "He's a very loyal gentleman. He didn't." "Did he make you think ?"
So when Mr. Davenant came and told me of your noble character " "The devil he did!" Ashley sprang out of his chair. The cigar dropped from his limp fingers. In stooping to pick it up he caught the echo of his own exclamation. "I beg your pardon " he began, when he had raised himself. He grew redder than ever; his eyes danced. "Ça ne fait rien, Col-on-el.
"What he made me think, Col-on-el, is my own affair." He jumped to his feet, throwing his cigar violently into the fire. For a minute or two he stood glaring at the embers. When he turned on her it was savagely. "May I ask your motive in springing this on me, Marquise?" "Mon Dieu, Col-on-el, I thought you'd like to know what a friend you have." "Damn his friendship. That's not the reason.
"Oh, not as an office, I hope?" "Worse! The worse that can be! They 'ave stop' five prisoner' from the boat and put them yondeh. Since an hour Col-on-el Grinleaf he tol' me that and she's ad the bottom, that Flora! Bicause " The speaker gazed. Anna was all joy. "Because what?" demanded Anna, "because Hil ?" "Yaas! bicause he's one of them! Ringgleadeh!
It's an expression of which I myself often use the equivalent in French. But I don't wonder you're pleased. Your friend Mr. Davenant made the journey to Europe purposely to tell me how highly you were qualified as a suitor for my niece's hand. When one has a friend like that " "But he's not my friend." "You surprise me, Col-on-el. He spoke of you with so much praise so much affection, I might say.
Don Felipe smiled at the Señora's provincialism. What a great world lay outside that of her own, of which she was entirely ignorant. A trip to the City of Mexico during her honeymoon was the only journey she had ever taken beyond the confines of Chihuahua. "And then there is Mrs. Forest's brother, Col-on-el Van Ash-ton," she continued, pronouncing the latter's name slowly and with difficulty.
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