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I hope she will be good to him, and gracious, and let him have his own way, and give him his tea comfortably when he comes up tired from the House; for I confess that my heart is a little tender towards Phineas still. I should not like to think that he had fallen into the hands of a female Philistine." "I do not think he will marry Madame Goesler." "Why not?"
She would still be free, Marie Max Goesler, unless in abandoning her freedom she would obtain something that she might in truth prefer to it.
What a fate was his to have the handsomest woman in London with thousands and thousands a year at his disposal! For, so he now swore to himself, Madame Goesler was the handsomest woman in London, as Mary Flood Jones was the sweetest girl in the world. He had not arrived at any decision so fixed as to make him comfortable when he went home and dressed for Mrs. Gresham's party.
"It does not much matter," said Violet. "It would matter very much. You know, you, you; you know whom he loves. And I do believe that sooner or later you will be his wife." "Never." "Yes, you will. Had you not loved him you would never have condescended to accuse him about that woman." "I have not accused him. Why should he not marry Madame Max Goesler? It would be just the thing for him.
They were in a little book-room inside the library at Matching, and the door, though not latched, was nearly closed. Phineas had flattered himself that Madame Goesler had retreated there in order that this farewell might be spoken without interruption. "And, Mr. Finn; I wonder whether I may say one thing," she continued. "You may say anything to me," he replied.
"I never doubted it when you had declared it. May I venture to say that I wish it had been otherwise?" "It is too late now, Madame Goesler. A man of course is a fool to show that he has any feelings in such a matter. The fact is, I heard it just before I came here, and had made up my mind to send you an excuse. I wish I had now." "Do not say that, Mr. Finn." "I have made such an ass of myself."
Of course decency, morality, and propriety, all made to suit the eye of the public, are the things which are really delightful. We all know that, and live accordingly, as well as we can. I do at least." "And do not I, Madame Goesler?" "I know nothing about that, Mr. Finn, and want to ask no questions.
Lady Laura paused a moment, thinking what reply she should make; and then she told a fib. "No; he never asked me." But Violet did not believe the fib. Violet was quite sure that Phineas had asked Lady Laura Standish to be his wife. "As far as I can see," said Violet, "Madame Max Goesler is his present passion." "I do not believe it in the least," said Lady Laura, firing up.
Now Phineas would have thought it more likely that he should find her in Portman Square than in Grosvenor Place. The truth was that Madame Goesler had been brought by Miss Effingham, with the consent, indeed, of Lady Laura, but with a consent given with much of hesitation. "What are you afraid of?" Violet had asked.
That evening Lord Chiltern took Miss Effingham out to dinner. Phineas told himself that this was of course so arranged by Lady Glencora, with the express view of serving the Saulsby interest. It was almost nothing to him at the moment that Madame Max Goesler was intrusted to him. He had his ambition respecting Madame Max Goesler; but that for the time was in abeyance.
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