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Sitting stiffly on his chair, his eyes wide open, like a man who asks himself whether he is asleep or awake, he murmured, "That is incomprehensible! That is unheard of!" Jacques was becoming gradually excited. He went on, "This is, at least, what the countess told me in her first hours of enthusiasm. But she told it to me calmly, coldly, like a thing that was perfectly natural.
"We feared that you were not coming, Herr Schubert," said the countess suavely. The group had gathered in the music-room.... The storm had ceased, and a cool breeze came through the window. Outside in the castle grounds dim lights glimmered. The young man advanced into the group a little awkwardly, rubbing his eyes as if waking from a dream.
"What's that?" asked Lucia. "How you are going to treat me," said the Captain. "Think what I have suffered already!" "I could n't help that," she cried. "My word was absolutely pledged to Emilia. 'Whatever happens, I said to her, 'I promise I won't tell anybody that I 'm not the Countess. If I had n't promised that, she could n't have gone to Rome at all, you know.
Lionel, Lord Garle, Decima, and young Bitterworth he was generally called young Bitterworth, in contradistinction to his father, who was "old Bitterworth" formed another group; Sir Rufus Hautley was talking to the Countess of Elmsley; and Lucy Tempest sat apart near the window. Sir Rufus had but just moved away from Lucy, and for the moment she was alone.
There is a society three or four miles from Geneva, the centre of which is the Countess of Breuss, a Russian lady, well acquainted with the agrémens de la Société, and who has collected them round herself at her mansion. It was chiefly here, I find, that the gentleman who travelled with Lord Byron, as physician, sought for society.
"Wait, I have not done yet." And, manipulating his spectacles most assiduously, he added, "I was just going home, when suddenly a chambermaid came in with a frightened air to tell the countess that her older daughter, little Martha, whom you know, had just been seized with terrible convulsions. Of course I went to see her, and found her suffering from a truly fearful nervous attack.
Murphy ran immediately to open the glass door, and aided by David, he gently rolled the chair into the garden, leaving Rudolph and Clemence alone. "Ah! madame," cried Rudolph, as soon as Murphy and David had departed, "you do not know that the Countess M'Gregor is the mother of Fleur-de-Marie!" "Great heavens!"
The Marchioness had come in spite of her son's misfortune when she heard that the Duchess of Stevenage was to be there. 'And worse spent money never was wasted, said the Countess. 'By all accounts it was as badly come by, said the Marchioness.
Blake, whose back was turned to me, in a way that entirely precluded all thought of any tragic expression in that quarter. Somewhat disgusted, I withdrew and followed the lady. I could not get very near. By this time the presence of a live countess in the assembly had become known, and I found her surrounded by a swarm of half-fledged youths.
Believe me, my dear Lord Bracy, yours most faithfully. The Earl, when he read this, though there was not a word in it to which he could take exception, was not altogether pleased. "Of course it will be an engagement," he said to his wife. "Of course it will," said the Countess. "But then Carstairs is so very much in earnest. He would have done it for himself if you hadn't done it for him."
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