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"I haven't the least idea," said Marian Fancourt, whose visitor found her more perversely sublime than ever yet as she professed this clear helplessness. "Oh I say, I want you to stop a little," Henry St. George said to him at eleven o'clock the night he dined with the head of the profession.
He shook hands with his hostess, who welcomed him without many words, in the manner of a woman able to trust him to understand and conscious that so pleasant an occasion would in every way speak for itself. She offered him no particular facility for sitting by her, and when they had all subsided again he found himself still next General Fancourt, with an unknown lady on his other flank.
Fan-court. 'Well, I shall not introduce you; he will not suit you; he is a fine gentleman, and only dines, with dukes. Mrs. Fancourt consequently looked very anxious for an introduction. 'General Faneville, Lady Bellair continued, to a gentleman on her left, 'what day do I dine with you? Wednesday. Is our party full? You must make room for him; he is my greatest favourite.
There are two, and only two, really dramatic ways in which Colonel Ford can be enlightened. Lady Fancourt must realize that Agatha is wrecking her life to keep her mother's secret, and must either herself reveal it to Colonel Ford, or must encourage and enjoin Agatha to do so.
Paul Overt met her eyes, which had a cool morning-light that would have half-broken his heart if he hadn't been so young. "Alas I don't know him. I only admire him at a distance." "Oh you must know him he wants so to talk to you," returned Miss Fancourt, who evidently had the habit of saying the things that, by her quick calculation, would give people pleasure.
"I think you should know how I know it," the young man laughed. "I suppose Miss Fancourt told you." "No indeed she led me rather to suppose you had." "Yes that's much more what she'd do. Doesn't she shed a rosy glow over life? But you didn't believe her?" asked St. George. "No, not when you came to us there." "Did I pretend? did I pretend badly?" But without waiting for an answer to this St.
A letter from Captain Fancourt at length arrived, summoning Harry to join the Triton. He bade an affectionate farewell to his kind old uncle. His brother had remarked the failing health of Sir Reginald.
"Your uncle will get you promoted first, I should think," answered Headland, "though I hope some day my turn will come." "You are my senior, and have done not a few things to merit it, and Captain Fancourt is the last man to favour a relation by passing over another with greater merits." "Come, come, you have learned to flatter while you were studying French on shore.
George broke into a laugh to reply. "It's the best thing you can do with her. She's a rare young lady! In point of fact, however, I confess I hadn't read you this afternoon." "Then you see how right I was in this particular case not to believe Miss Fancourt." "How right? how can I agree to that when I lost credit by it?" "Do you wish to pass exactly for what she represents you?
Fancourt sent self-conscious glances down the table towards Gaston; and then a young American, newly come to Paris, said: "Who's Zoug-Zoug, and what's Zoug-Zoug?" "It's milk for babes, youngster," answered Bagshot quickly, and changed the conversation.
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