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"Oh, yes; he's a clergyman of our church," said Madame Goesler. "A clergyman of our church; dear, dear. And married in Scotland! That makes it stranger. I wonder what made a clergyman marry her?" "Money, duke," said Lady Glencora, speaking very loud. "Oh, ah, yes; money. So he'd got money; had he?" "Not a penny, duke; but she had." "Oh, ah, yes. I forgot. She was very well left; wasn't she?
Mr. Palliser knew well how thoroughly the cunning of the serpent was joined to the purity of the dove in the person of his wife, and he was sure that there was cause for fear when she hinted at danger. "Perhaps you had better keep your eye upon him," he said to his wife. "And upon her," said Lady Glencora. When Madame Goesler dined at the Duke's house in St.
Bonteen, who rather liked the confusion she had caused. "But who could have told you, Finn?" asked Mr. Bonteen. "His sister, Lady Laura, told me so," said Phineas. "Then it must be true," said Madame Goesler. "It is quite impossible," said Lord Fawn. "I think I may say that I know that it is impossible. If it were so, it would be a most shameful arrangement.
Lady Chiltern in her time had refused to be Lady Fawn. Madame Goesler in her time had declined to marry an English peer. There was, therefore, something more of interest in the conversation to each of them than was quite expressed in the words spoken. "Is she to be at your party on Friday, Lady Glencora?" asked Madame Goesler.
The dinner, taken altogether, was not a success, and so Madame Goesler understood. Lord Fawn, after he had been contradicted by Phineas, hardly opened his mouth. Phineas himself talked rather too much and rather too loudly; and Mrs. Bonteen, who was well enough inclined to flatter Lord Fawn, contradicted him.
Bungay, and old Lady Hartletop, who was a dowager marchioness, an old lady who pestered the Duke very sorely, and Madame Max Goesler received her reward, and knew that she was receiving it, in being asked to meet these people. Would not all these names, including her own, be blazoned to the world in the columns of the next day's Morning Post?
"You do not believe that Violet Effingham will accept him?" asked Mrs. Bonteen. He paused a moment before he spoke, and then made his answer in a deep solemn voice, with a seriousness which he was unable to repress. "She has accepted him," he said. "Do you mean that you know it?" said Madame Goesler. "Yes; I mean that I know it."
And were I to wish to choose one, I should think the Duke a little above me." "Oh, yes; and too stiff, and too old, and too pompous, and too cold, and too make-believe, and too gingerbread." "Mr. Finn!" "The Duke is all buckram, you know." "Then why do you come to his house?" "To see you, Madame Goesler." "Is that true, Mr. Finn?" "Yes; it is true in its way.
Phineas so far agreed with his friend Laurence that he thought it possible that Madame Goesler might accept him were he to propose marriage to her. He knew, of course, that that mode of escape from his difficulties was out of the question for him, but he could not explain this to Laurence Fitzgibbon. "I am sorry to hear that you have taken up a bad cause," said Barrington Erle to him.
And in order that he might not be balked in his search for sympathy he wrote a line to Madame Goesler to ask if she would be at home. "I will be at home from five to six, and alone. M. M. G." That was the answer from Marie Max Goesler, and Phineas was of course at the cottage a few minutes after five.
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