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"Well, now, I have a suggestion to make which I am sure will please you, and that is that you will appoint some meeting place with Mr. Nelson for Tuesday morning, since you do not trust my good taste far enough even to let me know your home address. Perhaps at the Hotel de Courville, if the Duchesse will permit, and that then we do not meet until the seventh of November at the ceremony. Mr.
Her French mind of the Ancien Régime could not contemplate a Thormonde son of Anne de Mont-Anbin falling in love with an insignificant Miss Sharp who brings bandages to the Courville hospital! These thoughts tormented me so all yesterday that I was quite feverish by the evening and Burton wore an air of thorough disapproval.
I become feverish with longing to be up and with the old regiment When I read of their deeds then I grow rebellious. Monday: No news yet It is unbearable Burton returned from Auteuil with no clue whatsoever except that the concierge at the Hotel de Courville had never heard of the name of Sharp! That proves to me that "Sharp" is not Alathea's name at all.
Courville, Darnetot, and the two ladies laughed very heartily at those picturesque descriptions into which the Baron threw his whole heart. He grew animated, moved his arms about, and gesticulated with his whole body; and when he described the death of anything he had killed, he gave a formidable laugh, and said: "Was not that a good shot?"
I cannot let her master me, or we shall never have any peace. I will not tell her that I love her until her pride is broken, and I have made her love me and come to me voluntarily. She was silent. "I have informed the Duchesse de Courville that we are engaged. I saw her yesterday." She started perceptibly. "She has told you my real name?" "I have known that for some time.
But one evening, while Madame Vilers was singing, and accompanying herself on the piano, a servant came with a mysterious air, and told Monsieur de Courville that a gentleman wanted to see him.
As Monsieur de Courville felt certain that his friend would not meet with a refusal, he replied: "Propose to her immediately, my dear fellow, or would you rather that I did it for you?" But the Baron grew suddenly nervous, and said, with some hesitation: "No, ... no.... I must go to Paris for ... for a few days. As soon as I come back, I will give you a definite answer."
His gamekeeper was his sick nurse, and as the servant found the time hang just as heavily on his hands as it did on his master's, he slept nearly all day and all night in any easy chair, while the Baron was swearing and flying into a rage between the sheets. The ladies of the De Courville family came to see him occasionally, and those were hours of calm and comfort for him.
"She dislikes me, she thinks I am a rotter, and I expect she was right, but I shall not be in the future, and then perhaps she will change." When I left the Hotel de Courville it had been arranged that the Duchesse would receive my wife with honour, her world only knowing that I had married an English "Miss Sharp." I heard no more of my fiancée until next morning, when she telephoned.
She really loved her son. I telegraphed to her at once my fondest sympathies, and the thought of her grief would not leave me all the way, war-hardened as I am. I did not tell Maurice of my approaching wedding. I have a plan that he shall only know when I ask him to come to the Hotel de Courville to be presented to my wife.
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