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Kilmer Duelma tall, stocky, swaggering, his clothes the loose, nonchalant perfection of the season, his walk ambling, studied, lackadaisical, aimless, his color high, his cheeks full, his eyes a little vacuous, his mind acquiescing in a sort of genial, inconsequential way to every query and thought that was put to him.
The younger of the two sons of Auguste Duelma, banker, promoter, multimillionaire, he would come into a fortune estimated roughly at between six and eight millions. At the Haggertys' the year before he had hung about her in an aimless fashion. Mrs. Batjer studied Berenice curiously for a moment, then returned to her needlework. "I've asked him down over this week-end," she suggested.
How droll! Whom would you suggest that I marry at once?" "Oh, when it comes to that " replied Mrs. Batjer, with a slight reproachful lift in her voice, and thinking of Kilmer Duelma. "But surely your need isn't so pressing. If you were to take up professional dancing I might have to cut you afterward particularly if any one else did." She smiled the sweetest, most sensible smile. Mrs.
Clad in a morning gown of gray and silver, her hair piled in a Psyche knot, she had in her lap on this occasion a Java basket filled with some attempt at Norwegian needlework. "Bevy," she said, "you remember Kilmer Duelma, don't you? Wasn't he at the Haggertys' last summer when you were there?"
She was painting and thinking thinking being her special occupation these days, and her thoughts had been of Braxmar, Cowperwood, Kilmer Duelma, a half-dozen others, as well as of the stage, dancing, painting.
Some impossible scheming silly would soon collect Duelma, and then She considered Berenice a little difficult. Berenice could not help piecing together the memory of this incident with her mother's recent appeal in behalf of Lieutenant Braxmar.
Kilmer Duelma was gone also snapped up an acquisition on the part of one of those families who did not now receive her. However, in the drawing-rooms where she still appeared and what were they but marriage markets? one or two affairs did spring up tentative approachments on the part of scions of wealth. They were destined to prove abortive.
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