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My fair companion is a person whom nature and fortune would have spoiled if they could. She is one of those striking women whom a stranger cannot pass without turning to look again; tall and finely proportioned, with a bold Roman contour of figure and feature, a delicate English complexion, and an air of distinction altogether her own. Her beauty is duchess-like.
The lover's pride had inspired the poet. And the Duchess had treasured these touching letters, as some old men keep indecent prints, for the sake of their extravagant praise of all that was least duchess-like in her nature. "And he died in a squalid prison!" cried she to herself, putting the letters away in a panic when she heard her maid knocking gently at her door.
They were De Tropys at that time, but, having sunk in the social scale in the course of centuries, and then risen again in succeeding centuries through the medium of trade, they reappeared on the surface with their patronymic transformed as now presented. "Mother," said Ruth Dotropy to a magnificent duchess-like woman, "I've come to ask you about the poor "
De Peyster of the portrait, and oh, what a change was there in the one beneath! huddled, shaking, not a duchess-like line to her person, her face dropped forward in her hands. "Mother " Jack breathed at length. "Caroline!" breathed Judge Harvey. Then added: "I'm sure it it'll never become known." "Oh, to think it's all over and we're out of it!" Olivetta cried hysterically. "Oh! Oh!"
"Do you think, after what you said " "M. Dubois is a very good artist, but " "I understand, Cousin Caroline," Olivetta put in hastily. "I think too much of your position to think of such a thing. Since you since then I have not spoken to him, and have only bowed to him once." "We will say no more about it," returned Mrs. De Peyster; and she kissed Olivetta with her duchess-like kindness.
With high curiosity, eyes amused and alight with delectable danger, he had studied Judge Harvey a moment, and then the duchess-like Mrs. De Peyster in her most magnificent towering attitude of wrathful hauteur. Then quickly and soundlessly the heavy door had closed. Now again the heavy, sound-proof door of the study began to open noiselessly, inch by inch.
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