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Before the first course was over, Connal perceived that he had her eye: "Before the second is over," thought he, "I shall have her ear; and by the time we come to the dessert, I shall be in a fair way for the heart." Though he seemed to have talked without any design, except to amuse himself and the company in general, yet in all he had said there had been a prospective view to his object.
Ormond, in love affairs, never had any presumption any tinge of the Connal coxcombry in his nature: he was not apt to flatter himself that he had made a deep impression; and now he was, perhaps from his sense of the superior value of the object, more than usually diffident. Though Miss Annaly was still unmarried, she might have resolved irrevocably against him.
This promise I shall bold sacred. Oblige me with a smile, Mr. Ormond a smile of approbation." "Excuse me, Mr. Connal, that is impossible I am sincere." "So am I, and sincerely you are too romantic. See things as they are, as a man of the world, I beseech you." "I am not a man of the world, and I thank God for it," cried Ormond.
Somehow I thought that Raffles was going to smile, but the grim set of his mouth never altered, neither was there any change in the ashy pallor which had come over him in the donga when Connal mouthed his name. It was only his eyes that lighted up at the last question. "I am fighting, sir," said he, as simply as any subaltern in the army.
He seized, dexterously, an opportunity, in reply to something Lady Annaly said about the Connals, to observe that Madame de Connal was not only much admired for her beauty at Paris, but that she did honour to Ireland by having preserved her reputation; young, and without a guide, as she was, in dissipated French society, with few examples of conjugal virtues to preserve in her mind the precepts and habits of her British education.
Madame de Connal was in an inner apartment; and Ormond, the instant after he entered this room with Mademoiselle, heard a quick step, which he knew was Dora's, running to bolt the door of the inner room he was glad that she had not quite got rid of her English prejudices. Mdlle.
Oh, for shame! for shame! you are not used to falsehood enough yet you can't carry it through why did you attempt it with me?" "Sir, though I can't tell you the truth, the foolish truth, I tell you no falsehood. Dora's name, a thought of Dora, never came in question between Mr. Connal and me, upon my honour."
"Oh! put your Black Connals out of your head that is always in your mouth: I tell you he is call M. de Connal. Now did I not hear him this minute announced by his own valet? Monsieur de Connal presents his compliments he beg permission to present himself and there was I, luckily, to answer for your father in French."
"Oh! come come," interrupted Connal, "we had better not take it on this serious tone, lest, if we begin to talk of duty, we should presently conceive it to be our duty to run one another through the body, which would be no pleasure." "No pleasure," said Ormond; "but if it became a duty, I hope, on all occasions, I should be able to do whatever I thought a duty.
Time only was necessary, M. de Connal thought, to lead him on gradually and without alarm, to let him warm to the passion for play. Meanwhile Madame de Connal felt as fully persuaded that Ormond's passion for her would increase.
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