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Hastings elevated and lowered her shoulders. "Simply that you're seeing too much of Ross too much for his good, if not for your own." Del's sunshade was revolving impatiently. "It's as plain as black on white," continued Mrs. Hastings, "that he's madly in love with you in love as only an experienced man can be with an experienced and developed woman." "Well, what of it?"
But Del's mother wasn't like you, Mattie, and she hadn't a fool father like me, so she's married to a young fellow that's already doing big things, in his line and a good line his is, a better line than trimming dollars and donkeys. Our Jenny Jane that used to be We've sold her to a Frenchman, and she's sold herself to the devil.
You must be here to talk with him before he begins business to-morrow" to shock him into the realization that he had been imperiling the future he was dreaming of and planning his and Del's future. On the way to the train he stopped at the Villa d'Orsay, saw her and Henrietta at the far end of Mrs. Dorsey's famed white-and-gold garden. Henrietta was in the pavilion reading.
Adelaide was thinking of her trunks, was trying to recall the things she felt she must have neglected in the rush; Dory was worrying over her paleness and the heavy circles under her eyes, was fretting about the train Del's tardiness had not been in the calculations. Even the preacher, infected by the atmosphere of haste, ran over the sentences, hardly waiting for the responses.
Adelaide, unconsciously, of course we are never conscious of the strong admixture of vanity in our "great" emotions was piqued into explaining. "We can never be anything to each other. There's Dory; then there's Theresa. And I'd suffer anything rather than bring shame and pain on others." Madelene smiled somehow not irritatingly an appeal to Del's sense of proportion. "Suffer," repeated she.
"I see their finish." "Don't be too sure," said "Stump." "There's many a slip between the muzzle and the target. Maybe we won't do much after all. Just to make it interesting I'll bet you a dinner at Del's that we will only chuck a bluff. What d'ye say?" "Done, if you make it for the whole ship's company," chuckled the first captain. "Stump" shook his head.
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