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"And at least young Mr Breen is not a miserable apology for a man. He is as much a real man as anybody else goes out shooting plays tennis " Again Francie's cat's-paw pounced on her. "How do you know?" "Why why you can see he is one of that sort," squirmed poor Rose. "Oh!" said Frances significantly, with a firm stare at her sister's scarlet face.
And she relished it all with singular enjoyment until she began to feel the approach of that winter and evening of life which has so sharp a chill for those who have loved the sun. Claud Dalzell was likewise a denizen of the great world that was hers and not Francie's, and, close corporation as it is, they were never far off each other's beat, seldom in ignorance of each other's whereabouts.
On leaving Mme. de Brecourt Francie's lover had written to Delia that he desired half an hour's private conversation with her father on the morrow at half-past eleven; his impatience forbade him to wait for a more canonical hour. He asked her to be so good as to arrange that Mr. Dosson should be there to receive him and to keep Francie out of the way. Delia acquitted herself to the letter.
He went down south, to play a little at Monte Carlo and cruise a little in the Mediterranean to kill time through the detestable winter, which made itself felt wherever he was; and she went to London to see about Francie's gown, and up north to bracing Scotland, and down to Wellwood for Christmas, and back to the racket of London in the spring; and neither of them had spent a lonelier time in all their lives.
But his companion showed no sharpness. "Well, I guess there won't be any trouble about that. And what does my daughter say?" "I haven't spoken to her yet." "Haven't spoken to the person most interested?" "I thought it more orthodox to break ground with you first." "Well, when I was after Mrs. Dosson I guess I spoke to her quick enough," Francie's father just a little dryly stated.
The day after that, she rattled the window and encouraged Pepper to bark to draw the young man's attention, having ready for him a smile that should counteract Francie's frowns, if smiles could do it; but again he took no notice. Then she was sure that his feelings had been hurt.
Francie's father called after her as she flitted away. She wondered, rolling toward the Place Beauvau, what they were all there for; that announcement balanced against the reassurance conveyed in the phrase about Gaston. She liked them individually, but in their collective form they made her uneasy. In their family parties there was always something of the tribunal.
Flack; you'll come out all right. You see I'm a working-man and I don't pretend to be anything else," Francie's companion went on. "I don't live on the accumulations of my ancestors. What I have I earn what I am I've fought for: I'm a real old travailleur, as they say here. I rejoice in it, but there's one dark spot in it all the same." "And what's that?" Francie decided not quite at once to ask.
"Vandeleur" was Bessie's mother's name. She's very proud of it, said Frances, gazing admiringly at the pretty writing. Then she looked up with glistening eyes. 'Mamma, Jass, isn't it beautiful? Isn't it lovely to think they're so much happier? Mrs Mildmay's own face was nearly as bright as Francie's. 'I cannot tell you how glad and thankful I am, she said.
If you will get on with your lessons now, Frances, so as to be able to say at dinner that you have quite finished, I will go down-stairs and watch for Aunt Alison. She will be in by one, to-day, and I'll ask her for you. 'Oh thank you, Jass, said Frances gratefully. 'Yes, I'll hurry up. But Jass' 'Well? Francie's face grew very grave. 'It's about my things, Jass.
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