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Glenarm's may take her welcome for granted in this house." "I am not a friend of Mrs. Glenarm. I am a total stranger to her." This made the ceremonious request preferred by the lady a little more intelligible but it left the lady's object in wishing to speak to Mrs. Glenarm still in the dark.
At the same time, feeling toward Geoffrey as she felt now conscious as she was of not really desiring the reparation on which she was about to insist it was essential to the preservation of her own self-respect that she should have some purpose in view which could justify her to her own conscience in assuming the character of Mrs. Glenarm's rival.
"To congratulate me on my marriage!" he said to himself, bitterly, and opened the letter. Mrs. Glenarm's congratulations were expressed in these terms: "MY ADORED GEOFFREY, I have heard all. My beloved one! my own! you are sacrificed to the vilest wretch that walks the earth, and I have lost you! How is it that I live after hearing it?
"Put him off!" whispered the daughter of Eve, determined to lure Adam into taking a bite of the apple. "Come, Geoffrey, dear, never mind Perry, this once. Take me to the lake!" Geoffrey looked at his watch. "Perry expects me in a quarter of an hour," he said. Mrs. Glenarm's indignation assumed a new form. She burst out crying.
The rising of his mighty chest, as he drew in deep draughts of the fragrant summer breeze; the play of his lithe and supple loins; the easy, elastic stride of his straight and shapely legs, presented a triumph of physical manhood in its highest type. Mrs. Glenarm's eyes devoured him in silent admiration. He looked like a young god of mythology like a statue animated with color and life.
Glenarm's many-ringed fingers paused over the keys of the piano. Mrs. Gle narm's plump face turned on the stranger with a dawning expression of surprise. "Indeed? I am interested in so many matters. May I ask what this matter is?" The flippant tone of the speaker jarred on Anne. If Mrs.
I insist on your restoring it to me before I leave this room!" Bishopriggs hesitated again. His first suspicion that Anne had been privately instructed by Mrs. Glenarm's lawyers returned to his mind as a suspicion confirmed. He felt the vast importance of making a cautious reply.
Glenarm started to her feet. The maid appeared at the door in terror. Her ladyship motioned to the woman to withdraw again instantly, and then pointed to Mrs. Glenarm's chair. "Sit down," she said. "Let me have a minute or two of quiet. I want nothing more." The silence in the room was unbroken until Lady Lundie spoke again. She asked for Blanche's letter.
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