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He had not expected this result for some days, at the very earliest, and the surprise and pleasure with which he learned it were almost equal. Carrington did not believe in good; he absolutely distrusted and despised human nature, and he never dreamed of imputing Madame Durski's conduct to anything but coquetry and fickleness.
The meal was served with elegance, but the stamp of poverty was too plainly impressed upon all things at Hilton House. The dinner served with such ceremony was but a scanty banquet the wines were poor and Victor perceived that, in place of the old silver which he had seen on a previous occasion, Madame Durski's table was furnished with the most worthless plated ware.
There had been a heavy fall of snow, and the park-like grounds surrounding Madame Durski's abode had an almost fairy-like appearance, the tracery of the leafless trees defined by the snow that had lodged on every branch, the undulating lawn one bed of pure white. He knocked at the door and waited.
Paulina Durski's lip curled contemptuously, but she did not openly convict Sir Reginald of the deliberate falsehood he had uttered. "I am very glad you have come to me," she said, presently, "because I have urgent need of your help." "My dear Paulina, believe me " began the baronet "Do not make your protest till you have heard what I have to ask," said Madame Durski.
Do you comprehend me so far?" "Yes, I comprehend you so far," answered Miss Brewer, "perfectly." "Considering Madame Durski's feelings for Sir Reginald feelings of which, I assure you, I consider him, even according to my own unpretending standard, entirely unworthy this intimacy cannot be broken off without pain to her, but it might be destroyed without any profit, nay, with ruinous loss.
However, perhaps you'll hardly understand my feelings on this subject, Eversleigh; for if I remember rightly you were always a winner when I played at Madame Durski's." "Was I?" said Sir Reginald, with the air of a man who endeavours to recall circumstances that are almost forgotten.
He might have stayed away much longer, in self-interested obedience to Carrington, had he been sure of Paulina's unabated devotion; but he was piqued by her silence, and he wanted to discover whether there was a rival in the field. He knew Madame Durski's habits, and that it was not till late in the afternoon that she was to be seen.
He drove up to Hilton House with glad expectancy, and his eyes were dim as he was ushered into the drawing-room in which Paulina sat. Madame Durski's emotions on this occasion were unspeakably painful. So well had Miss Brewer played her part, that she had persuaded Paulina her only chance of escape from immediate arrest lay in borrowing money, that very day, from Douglas Dale.
Reginald Eversleigh feared that it must be so, when he found the few young men he met at his club rather disinclined to avail themselves of Madame Durski's hospitality. "Have you been to Fulham lately, Caversham?" he asked of a young lordling, who was master of a good many thousands per annum, but not the most talented of mankind. "Fulham!" exclaimed Lord Caversham; "what's Fulham?
"At eighteen, I left the boarding-school to go on the Continent, where I was to fill a situation which had been procured for me. That situation was in the household of Paulina Durski's father. Paulina was ten years of age, and I was appointed as her governess and companion. From that day to this, I have never left her. As much as I am capable of loving any one, I love her.
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