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He adored Undine's "smartness," which was of precisely the same quality as his own. "Oh, that's another thing: you can always trust me to look after you!" "With your reputation? Much obliged!" Van Degen smiled. She knew he liked such allusions, and was pleased that she thought him compromising. "Oh, I'm as good as gold. You've made a new man of me!"
Her colour rose again, and she looked him quickly and consciously in the eye. It was time to play her last card. "You seem to forget that I am married," she said. Van Degen was silent for a moment she thought he was swaying to her in the flush of surrender.
Nothing was bitterer to her than to confess to herself the failure of her power; but her last talk with Van Degen had taught her a lesson almost worth the abasement. She saw the mistake she had made in taking money from him, and understood that if she drifted into repeating that mistake her future would be irretrievably compromised.
Walker, after considering Degen and all his works, proceeds to detail his own directions for the construction of a flying machine, these being as follows: 'Make a car of as light material as possible, but with sufficient strength to support a man in it; provide a pair of wings about four feet each in length; let them be horizontally expanded and fastened upon the top edge of each side of the car, with two joints each, so as to admit of a vertical motion to the wings, which motion may be effected by a man sitting and working an upright lever in the middle of the car.
"It was your husband's sister what did you say her name was? When you didn't answer her cable, she cabled Mr. Van Degen to find out where you were and tell you to come straight back." Undine stared. "He never did!" "No." "Doesn't that show you the story's all trumped up?" Indiana shook her head.
Eleanore made her own white dress and her veil. Gisela Degen, a younger sister of Martha Rübsam, and Elsa Schneider, the daughter of the rector of the Church of St. Ægydius, were to be her bridesmaids. Marian Nothafft and Eva were also to come over from Eschenbach; Eleanore had already sent them the money for the tickets.
Tip him the degen, Fib, fake him through and through; if he pikes, we shall all be scragged." Hitherto, in the confusion I had not been able to recall Job's instructions in opening the latch; at last I remembered, and pressed, the screw the latch rose I opened the door; but not wide enough to scape through the aperture. The ruffians saw my escape at hand.
I have only to say of Tuscany that two months have passed away in endeavouring to repair the ravages of Italian physicians. My pursuits, though not profitable, have still been flattering to myself. I am at the house of F. C. Degen, who married Miss Russell, of Boston. She is acquainted with you, and often retraces the hours you spent with Mrs. Russell.
Laura Fairford, to get Paul away from town, had gone early to the country; and Ralph, who went down to her every Saturday, usually found Clare Van Degen there. Since his divorce he had never entered his cousin's pinnacled palace; and Clare had never asked him why he stayed away.
Peter Van Degen was saying, in her slightly drawling voice. "He's doing everybody this year, you know " "As if that were a reason!" Undine heard Mrs. Fairford breathe to Mr. Bowen; who replied, at the same pitch: "It's a Van Degen reason, isn't it?" to which Mrs. Fairford shrugged assentingly. "That delightful Popple he paints so exactly as he talks!" the white-haired lady took it up.
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