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And it certainly is not every woman's fortune to be able to recover a chance which seemed so nearly lost as yours when we left Hallgrove. By all means nail him to his proposition, and let him throw over the lovely Paulina. What a fool the man must be not to know his mind a little better!" "Madame Durski entrapped him into the engagement," said Lydia, scornfully.
The suspicion once whispered would speedily be repeated by others who had lost money in the saloons of Madame Durski. Hints and whispers would swell into a general cry, and Sir Reginald Eversleigh would find himself tabooed. The prospect before him looked black as night a night illumined by one lurid star, and that was the promise of Victor Carrington.
"Shall I tell you why I would not take that glass from your hands just now, Paulina Durski?" asked Douglas, after a brief pause, rising to leave the table as he spoke. "Or will you spare me the anguish of speaking words that must cover you with shame?" "I do not understand you," murmured Paulina, looking at her lover with a gaze of mingled terror and bewilderment.
If you are human, let some word of remorse, some tardy expression of regret, attest your womanhood." "I can only think that he is mad," murmured Paulina to herself, as she gazed on her accuser with wondering eyes. "Paulina, at least do not pretend to misunderstand me." "Your words," replied Madame Durski, "seem to me the utterances of a madman. For pity's sake, calm yourself, and speak plainly."
Vulgar people of the kind, you know, my dear Miss Brewer, give ugly names, and attach undue importance to intimacies of this kind, and and in short, it is on the cards that Madame Durski may spoil Sir Reginald's game. Well, as that game is also mine, you will find no difficulty in understanding that I do not intend Madame Durski shall spoil it."
"No; it was a marriage of convenience, dictated by a father who set less value on his daughter's happiness than on a good hand of cards. My father told me I must choose between Leopold Durski and ruin. 'This house cannot shelter you much longer, he said. 'For myself there is flight. I can go to America, and lose my identity in strange cities.
It is talked of at the clubs; and Reginald Eversleigh will no longer be able to live upon the spoils won from his dupes and victims. The game is up, Madame Durski; and now that you can no longer be useful to Reginald Eversleigh, you will see how much his love is worth." "I believe he loves me," murmured Paulina, "after his own fashion."
The truth was that Paulina Durski was ill, and in his anxiety and uneasiness, Douglas forgot even the existence of Lydia Graham.
"Paulina Durski is one of the handsomest women I ever saw; not above five-and-twenty years of age elegant, fascinating, patrician a woman for whose sake a wiser man than Douglas Dale might be willing to sacrifice himself." "I will see Mr. Dale," exclaimed Lydia. "I will ascertain from his own lips whether there is any foundation for this report." "How will you contrive to see him?"
"It is one of Lord Caversham's absurd stories; and I dare say is without the slightest foundation. I cannot and will not believe that Douglas Dale would throw himself away upon such a woman as this Madame Durski." "You have never seen her?" "Of course not." "Then don't speak so very confidently," said Captain Graham, who was malicious enough to take some pleasure in his sister's discomfiture.
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