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He had but to imagine what Geraldine's attitude towards Cosette would have been had the two met, in order to perceive the overpowering balance of advantages in Geraldine's favour. Much had happened since Cosette. As a consequence of natural reaction, he had at once settled down to be extremely serious, and to take himself seriously.
I must go away to-morrow." Her companion gave a fleeting glance around at the girl, and her withered lips relaxed in a smile as she shook her head. "Oh, no, you won't, my dear." At the unexpected reply Geraldine's heart thumped harder. "I certainly shall, Mrs. Carder. I'm sorry not to stay and help you, but it's impossible." "It will be impossible for you to go," was the colorless reply.
Naught was heard but the beating of their hearts, and the sighs of anguish that burst from Geraldine's trembling lips. It was an awful, a terrible pause. Geraldine would gladly have given her life could she thereby have extinguished the light and veiled herself in impenetrable darkness. But the earl would see.
Kathleen's eyes followed the slender retreating figure, so slimly compact in its buoyancy. There was always something fascinatingly boyish in Geraldine's light, free carriage just a touch of carelessness in the poise almost a swing at times to the step. Duane had once said: "She has a bully walk!" Kathleen thought of it as, passing a mirror, she caught sight of herself.
"Just as you say, Rufus," repeated the mother. A light was glowing in Geraldine's eyes. It was day. She was young and strong. The world was wide. She laughed at her fears of the night. The right moment to escape would present itself. Rufus would have to go to the city, and even if he refused to leave without her, once in town she could easily give him the slip.
Geraldine was the beauty of the Challoner family, and her career had been a failure hitherto; so that there was much rejoicing, in a quiet way, now that Lady Geraldine's destiny was apparently decided, and in an advantageous manner.
"I'm glad you understand him," observed Kathleen, gazing at the point of her sunshade. She looked up presently and met Geraldine's dark gaze. Again there came that almost imperceptible hesitation; then: "I certainly do understand Duane Mallett," said Geraldine carelessly. "Shall I wait for you?" asked Kathleen. "We can lunch out together and drive in the Park later."
Rufus Carder slipped his fingers into an inside pocket and drew forth two checks which he held in such a way that she could read them. "You don't know my signature," he went on, "but that is it. Large as life and twice as natural. Yes" he regarded the checks "twice as natural. I couldn't have done them better myself." Geraldine's hands flew to her heart, her eyes spoke an anguished question.
And this is Geraldine's brother Lieutenant Conyers." The two men shook hands pleasantly. Lady Anselman glanced at the clock and turned briskly towards the corridor. "And now, I think," she announced, "luncheon." As she moved forward, she was suddenly conscious of the man who had been talking to Madame Selarne.
As Ben regarded the dwarf, he felt some reflection of Geraldine's compassion for the forlorn little object in his ragged clothes, and he realized that it was a wonder that the poor, stultified brain had possessed enough initiative to carry out the important part he had played in their lives. While the grocer's clerk was putting up the packages the man himself laid his hand on Pete's shoulder.
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