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Was there some broken engagement? They came from Europe together. "She does not mean anything " begins Gertrude; but Marcia interrupts, snappishly, "I do mean something, too, if you please, Miss Grandon," with a bitter emphasis on the Miss. "And I think turn about fair play. She jilted Floyd and he jilted her, it amounts to just that, and for once Violet came off best, though I doubt "
Mrs. Grandon does not like to have her Floyd's wife, and she would like Madame Lepelletier in the place. But how strange that no one seems to remember the old time when she jilted him, as Marcia says. "But all that will be so much nicer in the summer," he goes on, reflectively. "The children can run out of doors.
Grandon that her sister had fully intended coming in the morning, but had suddenly changed her mind and begged to be excused. "I am sorry," Sybil said, "and so I am sure is Mr. Ray," turning lightly to Mark, whose white face froze the gay laugh on her lips and made her try to shield him from observation until he had time to recover himself and appear as usual.
There is some tea on the kitchen stove keeping warm, she tells him with her good night, some biscuits and crackers, and a bottle of wine, if he likes better. Then he is left alone, and presently the great clock in the hall tells off slowly and reverently the midnight hour. Violet stirs and opens her eyes. There is a light, and Mr. Grandon is sitting here. What does it all mean?
Connery when he says emphatically that he is glad of Mr. Grandon's return. Floyd proceeds at once to business, and asks his questions in a straightforward manner. "When I drew up your father's will, Mr. Grandon," replies the lawyer, "according to his showing it seemed a very fair one. To take out actual money would have destroyed the business at once, and that was what he counted on for Eugene.
"Is it absolutely necessary?" "Not unless the family desire it." "Doctors are sometimes taken into strange confidences," Floyd Grandon begins, gravely. "A difficulty came to my knowledge last night that supplies the clew. Since the man could not have retained his honor, this is the sad result. But having paid the penalty, if he might go to his last rest quietly "
He is not an old man, either, but he has worn hard on himself. There, my time is up," glancing at his watch. Mr. St. Vincent receives Mr. Grandon with evident pleasure, but it seems as if he looks thinner and paler than yesterday. There is a feverish eagerness in his eyes, a tremulousness in his voice. The doctor is to be up presently, and Grandon is persuaded to wait.
Grandon off for a smoke, since we do not sit over wine." "And I shall appropriate Mrs. Grandon," declares Gertrude, with unusual verve. When they reach the drawing-room she says, "Send Cecil to Jane, will you not?" But Cecil has no mind to be dismissed from the conclave.
He had come expressly for the carriage to take her and Sybil Grandon to a picnic up the river, whither his mother, Juno and Bell had already gone. Mrs. Grandon must wonder why he stayed so long, and perhaps give up going. Could Katy be ready soon; and Wilford walked rapidly up and down the parlor as he talked, with a restless motion of his hands which always betokened impatience.
After all, it is a good deal to her and madame. Mrs. Floyd Grandon will take her turn next year, when she arrives at legal age. She is yet a mere child." "It is so, mignonne, and you could not dance with a lame foot." "You are going?" Violet says. "Yes, I hurried back. Mrs. Delancy was so kind as to send a note. And I had a desire to see my friend's house on this occasion.
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