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Madame Castaigne had also insisted that they come to her at the chateau; nevertheless, the girls had chosen the farmhouse. The Countess was no longer young, and still had no servants save old François. The work of entertaining four guests, and one of them a stranger, would have put too great a tax upon her.
Proudie by no means despised a countess, and as this countess lived in the county and within a sort of extensive visiting distance of Barchester, she was glad to have this opportunity of ingratiating herself. "My dear Lady De Courcy, I am so delighted," said she, looking as little grim as it was in her nature to do. "I hardly expected to see you here.
Who could ever have thought that so frivolous a woman would have had so much feeling for her friend? Then he rose, bowed and curtly informed the countess that he would undertake the commission. The countess pressed his hand affectionately: "And keep me informed of everything," said she, "for I am the common post between you two." Szilard thanked the countess and withdrew.
The Duke, on the other hand, thought only of making up a well-arranged party of people who wanted to make the journey in any case, and would not be on his hands after he landed. So two or three days later he called on the Countess to open the campaign. It was not altogether new ground, as they had crossed together once before.
A pretty idea of yours it was to want to come!" Fauchery questioned him abruptly. "Now tell me, does the countess admit someone to her embraces?" "Oh dear, no, no! My dear fellow!" he stammered, manifestly taken aback and quite forgetting his pose. "Where d'you think we are?"
I assented to the countess's proposal, and having agreed with the man to come early the next day and bring his tools with him, I told Clairmont to take my belongings into the room which was assigned to me. When I returned to the countess's room I found everyone laughing at Marcoline's sallies, which the countess translated.
As I had agreed with Barbaro to visit the fair marchionesses, I dressed carefully, and after a slight repast with the countess, who was pleasant but did not quite please me, I met my fellow-countryman and we called on the two cousins. "I have come," said I, "to beg your pardons for having revealed to you the secret of the snuff-box."
Denkwurd, p. 282., It is remarkable that after the return of the Count from. Spain, Hoogstraaten received this singular bond from the Countess, and gave it to Mansfeld, to be burned in his presence.
The countess passed by her lord with a light step, and escaped. "I was occupied with my architect in designs for the new infirmary, of which I shall make a present to our county. I have only just heard that you were here, Harley. What is all this about our fair Italian guest? Is she not coming back to us? Your mother refers me to you for explanations."
He thought his cousin beautiful: and with his grandmother, that she would make a very handsome Countess; and he thought the money which Lady Kew would give or leave to the young couple a very welcome addition to his means.
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