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Her tone was the ordinary tone of society, from which it was impossible to draw any inference. "Because it is so long since I heard from you." "I have grown tired of writing letters that were rarely honoured by your notice." "So, so," thought the baronet; "I was right. She is offended." "To what do I owe this visit?" asked Madame Durski. "She is desperately angry," thought the baronet.
He scarcely ate anything; but the constant thirst from which he suffered obliged him to drink long draughts of water. After dinner, Miss Brewer brought the glasses and the liqueur to Madame Durski, after her customary manner. Paulina filled the ruby-stemmed glass with curacoa, and handed it to her lover. "No, Paulina, I shall take no liqueur to-night." "Why not, Douglas?"
The mistress of this house was a lady who called herself a widow, but of whose real position the world knew very little. She was said to be of Austrian extraction, and the widow of an Austrian officer. Her name was Paulina Durski. She had bade farewell to the fresh bloom of early youth; for at her best she looked thirty years of age.
Pardon me, if I ask you to leave me to myself." Victor complied immediately, and took leave of Madame Durski with many apologies for his intrusion. Before leaving the house he encountered Miss Brewer, who came out of a small sitting-room as he entered the hall. "You are going away, Mr. Carrington?" she asked. "Yes," he answered; "but I shall call again in a day or two.
"I will tell you by-and-by," said Carrington. "You consent, do you not?" "I am not sure," she answered. "But, even supposing I do consent, there is Paulina to be consulted. How is she to be induced to call you Mr. Carton and my cousin?" "I will undertake to persuade Madame Durski that it will be for her best interests to consent," said Carrington. "And now to my explanation.
Life is not to be tampered with. The poisoner may take it into his head to increase the doses." Douglas Dale left his adviser after a long conversation. He then went to take his farewell of Paulina Durski. There was no longer the shadow of doubt in his mind. The horrible certainty seemed painfully clear to him.
There was the faintest possible significance in Carrington's tone as he said this. He had watched Madame Durski closely during dinner, and he had noted an excitement in her manner, a nervous vivacity, such as are generally inspired by something stronger than water. And yet this woman had taken little else than water during the dinner.
Such a marriage is within his reach; one of the richest heiresses in London would have him for the asking she is an ironmonger's daughter, and pines to be My Lady but he hesitates, and loses his time in visits to Madame Durski, which are only doing them both harm.
Now this I am determined he shall not do, and as I have more power over him than any one else, it lies with me to prevent it. What that power springs from, or how I have hitherto exercised it, you need not inquire, Madame Durski; I only wish you to believe that I exercise it in this instance for your good, for your protection." Paulina murmured some vague words of acknowledgment. He continued
The engagement between Paulina and Douglas had lasted nearly two months, when a cloud overshadowed the horizon which had seemed so bright. Madame Durski became somewhat alarmed by a change in her lover's appearance, which struck her suddenly on one of his visits to the villa. For some weeks past she had seen him only by lamplight that light which gives a delusive brightness to the countenance.
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