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"In that case, you would propose to live on air?" "No, to work; it has been done before." "It is calculated to increase hunger! You are prepared to take Miss Devorell, a young lady accustomed to luxury, into places like this!" he peered about him, "into places that smell of paint, into the milieu of 'the people, into the society of Bohemians who knows? of anarchists, perhaps?"
Christian was sitting there. The sight of her face shocked him, it was so white, so resolutely dumb. A book lay on her knees; she was not reading, but staring before her. He thought suddenly: 'Poor thing! If I don't say something to her, I shall be a brute! "Miss Devorell," he said: "You can reckon on him." Christian tried to speak, but her lips trembled so that nothing came forth.
Cut on both floors by corridors, the Villa was divided into four divisions; each of which had its separate inhabitants, an arrangement which had come about in the following way: When old Nicholas Treffry died, his estate, on the boundary of Cornwall, had been sold and divided up among his three surviving children Nicholas, who was much the eldest, a partner in the well-known firm of Forsyte and Treffry, teamen, of the Strand; Constance, married to a man called Decie; and Margaret, at her father's death engaged to the curate of the parish, John Devorell, who shortly afterwards became its rector.
Herr Paul waved his arm; the gesture was impressive, annihilating. "This is a matter, I believe, between two men," he said, addressing Harz. "Let us come to the point. I will do you the credit to suppose that you have a marriage in view. You know, perhaps, that Miss Devorell has no money till I die?" "Yes." "And I am passably young! You have money, then?" "No."
He combined exuberant vitality with fastidiousness of palate, and devoted both to the acquisition of a special taste in women, weeds, and wines; above all he was blessed with a remarkable digestion. He was thirty when he met Mrs. Devorell; and she married him because he was so very different from anybody she had ever seen. People more dissimilar were never mated.
By his marriage with Margaret Treffry the rector had one child called Christian. Soon after this he came into some property, and died, leaving it unfettered to his widow. Three years went by, and when the child was six years old, Mrs. Devorell, still young and pretty, came to live in London with her brother Nicholas.
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