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Updated: June 17, 2025
'Didn't know this was to be a dinner with speeches, murmured the financier, after a few minutes, in his neighbour's ear. 'Think I'll get up and propose a vote of thanks to the chairman. 'There ought, at least, to be a time-limit, said the neighbour, with a shrug. 'Where on earth did Findon pick him up?
Marmaduke went home, much puzzled, urgently commanding Theresa to write to him, and announcing to Arthur Welby, who listened silently, as he talked, that if Fenwick did propose, he should think it a damned impertinence. Lord Findon meanwhile held his peace. Every day Eugénie came in from her walk with Fenwick, to sit with or read to her father.
On the whole, she said, she was anxious to get back to London; the holiday was overspreading its due limits; and she urged pressing on and home. Lord Findon was puzzled, but submissive; the bookish sister Theresa, now a woman of thirty, welcomed anything that would bring her back to the London Library and the British Museum.
When the young man answered Lord Findon, the voice was, like the face, charged perhaps over-charged with meaning and sensibility. 'I took Madame de Pastourelles to see it to-day, the youth was saying. 'She thought it as glorious as I did. 'Oh! you are a pair of enthusiasts, said Lord Findon. 'I keep my head.
Ah! by the way' he hurried the change of subject 'you know, of course, that Lord Findon and madame are to be at Versailles? 'They will be there to-night, said Fenwick, after a moment. 'Ah! to-night. Then you meet them? 'I shall see them, of course. 'What a blessed thing to be rid of that fellow! What's she been doing since?
It was because the French were so doctrinaire, so tyrannical so fond of managing for managing's sake. So the pettish voice rambled on, the others tenderly and sadly listening, till presently Lord Findon shook his gaunt shoulders. 'Upon my word, it begins to get cold. With your leave, Elsie, I could do with a little more sun! Arthur, shall we take a brisk walk round the canal before tea?
He imagined her look of surprise 'Ah, my father had no idea! imagined it with a morbid intensity, and saw no way of confronting or getting round it; not at the dinner-table, anyway with all these eyes and ears about him above all, with Lord Findon opposite. Why, they might think he had been ashamed of Phoebe! that there was some reason for hiding her away.
'Well, of course, if you wait till he's made a hit, prices will go up, said Eugénie, calmly. 'I advise you to agree with him quickly, while you are in the way with him. 'I never asked him to paint you, said Lord Findon, hastily, swallowing a sip of tea under the regulation time, and frowning at the misdeed. 'Oh, shuffling papa! Come how much? two hundred? 'Upon my word!
For in her present nervous and fidgety state she would very likely be jealous of his sitter, and of the way in which Madame de Pastourelles' portrait possessed his mind. No, it really couldn't be done! it really couldn't! He must finish the two pictures persuade Lord Findon to buy the 'Genius Loci, and make the portrait such a success that he must needs buy that too.
What on earth had possessed him to make that answer to Lord Findon to let him and those other fellows take him for unmarried? He protested, in excuse, that Westmoreland folk are 'close, and don't like talking about their own affairs. He came of a secretive, suspicious stock; and had no mind at any time to part with unnecessary facts about himself.
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