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That is all the matter with her." This was the last effort Aunt Agnes made to alter my resolution, but she saw fit to tell Aunt Helen of my escapade at Mr. Barr's studio, who came to me in horror. Her predictions were about to be realized, she said. Notwithstanding all her warnings, my name was associated with a vulgar adventurer.
She felt as if she might do or say something imprudent. And she had never felt like that before. No one in the world could say that she had ever been imprudent. That which the lenient may call a school-girl escapade a mere flight to the garden for a few minutes was scarcely sufficient to account for this feeling. She must be unwell, she thought.
"You can only die once," Grim laughed after a quick glance at my face, "and we may save a hundred thousand people from the sword." But I suppose I wasn't cut out to be a willing martyr. It was a case of making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, and though I did go forward on that mad escapade it was fear that drove me fear of the Sikh's and Grim's contempt, and of my own self-loathing afterward.
"I didn't know I was such a prig," said Delafield, humbly. "It is true I am always puzzling over things." Julie was silent. She was indeed secretly convinced that he no more approved the escapade of the night before than did Sir Wilfrid Bury. Through the whole evening she had been conscious of a watchful anxiety and resistance on his part.
"I was beginning to find him hopelessly vulgar. Nevertheless, I answered "'Yes. "'And pretty girls? "'Most assuredly. "He began to laugh good-humoredly. "'Good, good! Do you remember our first escapade, in Bordeaux, after that dinner at Routie's? What a spree! "I did, indeed, remember that spree; and the recollection of it cheered me up. This called to mind other pranks.
Fox of Fox Hall, at which he played at being married to a young lady who was present, by one of the guests dressed up in a white cloak, with a door-key for a ring. This foolish escapade would not deserve the faintest notice, if it had not been seriously treated as an actual marriage by a writer in the Quarterly Review.
La Rochefoucauld admits the escapade, without any sign of embarrassment, merely observing that Retz would have done as much by him if he had only had the chance. But now comes the incident which, better than anything else could, illustrates the feverish and incongruous atmosphere of the Fronde, and the difficulty of following the caprices of its leading figures.
He only saw that she was young. Nor could he gather her hotel or chalet, for she pointed vaguely, when he asked her, up the slopes. "Just over there " she said, quickly taking his hand again. He did not press her; no doubt she wished to hide her escapade.
He can distinguish nothing that should offend her in a proposal to make his cousin happy if she will not him. Irony and sarcasm relieve his emotions, but he convinces her he is dealing plainly and intends generosity. She is confused; she speaks in maiden fashion. He touches again on Vernon's early escapade. She does not enjoy it.
"Oh, you ninny!" "Well, we must elope with fear and trembling or it won't count," he cried. "Is there anything you have to buy before we sail? If there is, we must attend to it now, because we leave at a most outlandish hour in the morning." Miss Vernon looked alarmed for a moment, the real enormity of the escapade striking her with full force.
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