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Violet also probably understood that she had not now been caught in a mousetrap. The Duke was to spend four days at Matching, and on the third day, the day before Lord Chiltern was expected, he was to be seen riding with Madame Max Goesler by his side.
Madame Goesler was a very pretty woman, who spared herself no trouble in making herself as pretty as Nature would allow, on behalf of those whom she favoured with her smiles; and to such a lady some special attention was due by one who had received so many of her smiles as had Phineas. And he felt, too, that there was something special in this very visit.
"You had Madame Max Goesler all to yourself for nearly two hours, and I suppose there was not a creature in the room who did not envy you. I don't doubt that ever so much interest was made with Lady Glencora as to taking Madame Max down to dinner. Lord Fawn, I know, intrigued." "Miss Effingham, really I must contradict you." "And Barrington Erle begged for it as a particular favour.
Then it was all true, even though the rumours had reached him through Laurence Fitzgibbon and Madame Max Goesler. "At any rate, my lord, that has not been my fault," he said, after a moment's hesitation. The Earl was walking up and down the room, angry with himself at his own mistake in having told the story, and not knowing what further to say to his visitor.
You would have hated me, had he become my husband? And you will hate Madame Goesler when she becomes his wife?" "Not in the least. I am no dog in the manger. I have even gone so far as almost to wish, at certain moments, that you should accept him." "And why?" "Because he has wished it so heartily." "One can hardly forgive a man for such speedy changes," said Violet.
"Oh yes; more than once if I remember right. He was here yesterday at any rate." "He comes often to you then?" "Not so often as I would wish, Lady Glencora. The Duke is one of my dearest friends." "It has been a quick friendship." "Yes; a quick friendship," said Madame Goesler. Then there was a pause for some moments which Madame Goesler was determined that she would not break.
"You don't mean to say that Lord Fawn is off?" asked Madame Goesler. "I do," said Lady Glencora. "Poor Lord Fawn!" exclaimed Lady Chiltern. "It really seems as though he never would be settled." "I don't think he has courage enough for such conduct as that," said Madame Goesler.
She had asked him respecting his journey to Blankenberg, and had touched him very nearly in reference to Miss Effingham. "You know Madame Max Goesler, of course?" said Violet to Lord Fawn. "Oh yes, I know the lady; that is, as well as other people do. No one, I take it, knows much of her; and it seems to me that the world is becoming tired of her.
Kennedy did not appear, and Madame Max Goesler with Violet went away, leaving Phineas still sitting with Lady Laura. Each of them said a kind word to him as they went. "I don't know whether I may dare to expect that a Lord of the Treasury will come and see me?" said Madame Max Goesler. Then Phineas made a second promise that he would call in Park Lane.
When he answered her after this fashion she could only tell him that he was ungenerous. "At any rate I am not false," he replied on one occasion. "What I say is the truth." There was a very tender parting between Phineas and Madame Max Goesler.
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