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His sins in regard to leaving poor Mountjoy speechless and motionless on the pavement had filled her with horror. But Florence now felt that all that had come to an end. Not only had Mountjoy gone away, but no mention would probably be ever again made of Anderson or Grascour.
"That accursed Belgian! If, after all, she should take up with him! I shall tell her a bit of my mind if anything of that kind should occur." "My niece, M. Grascour!" "Yes, my lady." M. Grascour had not quite got over the way of calling Lady Mountjoy "my lady." "It is presumption, I know." "Not at all." "I have not spoken to her.
The young man at once took to an altered mode of life which was sufficiently marked. He went, like Sir Proteus, ungartered. Everything about him had of late "demonstrated a careless desolation." All this M. Grascour observed, and when he saw it he felt that his own time had come. He took occasion at first to wait upon Lady Mountjoy. He believed that to be the proper way of going to work.
"Forty million," said Anderson, "more or less." "Twenty thousand would, perhaps, be nearer the mark," said M. Grascour; "but I will send him the exact amount to-morrow." Lady Mountjoy had certainly prophesied the truth when she said that Mr. Anderson would devote himself to Florence. The first week in Brussels passed by quietly enough.
Anderson's hat was in such a condition as almost to make her try to smooth it down for him. "If you make objection to my hat, you should brush it yourself," she had heard Harry say to Florence, and Florence had taken the hat, and had brushed it with fond, lingering touches. "M. Grascour, I can assure you that she is really engaged," Mrs. Mountjoy had said. M. Grascour bowed and sighed.
"It's clear she won't look at you." "I have pledged myself to abstain," said poor Anderson, in a tone which seemed to confess that all chance was over with him. "I suppose she must marry some one, and I don't see why Grascour should not have as good a chance as another."
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