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Blanche had refused to marry him, for the reason that the Grandmother had turned up in place of a telegram, and it was therefore clear that he had no inheritance to look for. Evidently, he supposed that I had hitherto been in entire ignorance of all this. Again, when I referred to De Griers, the General made a gesture of despair.
"You talk sheer nonsense, for, though you keep on saying 'Madame, Madame, you haven't the least notion what ought to be done. Away with you, I say!" "Mais, Madame," cooed De Griers and straightway started afresh with his fussy instructions. "Stake just ONCE, as he advises," the Grandmother said to me, "and then we shall see what we shall see. Of course, his stake MIGHT win."
Let that but be settled, and the General will marry, Mlle. Polina will be set free, and De Griers " "Yes, and De Griers?" "Will be repaid his money, which is what he is now waiting for." "What? You think that he is waiting for that?" "I know of nothing else," asserted Mr. Astley doggedly. "But, I do, I do!" I shouted in my fury.
I said this last as innocently as possible, but at once saw a rapid glance of excited interrogation pass from Mlle. Blanche to De Griers, while in the face of the latter also there gleamed something which he could not repress. "Well, at the present moment she would refuse to accept my services," said he with a gesture. "But if, later " Here he gave Mlle.
But you thought that I had turned up my toes and left my property to the lot of you. Oh, I know ALL about the telegrams which you have been dispatching. They must have cost you a pretty sum, I should think, for telegrams are not sent from abroad for nothing. Well, I picked up my heels, and came here. Who is this Frenchman? Monsieur de Griers, I suppose?" "Oui, madame," assented De Griers.
"Because he is a brute," she replied in rather a curious way. It was the first time that I had heard her speak so of De Griers: consequently, I was momentarily awed into silence by this expression of resentment. "Have you noticed, too, that today he is by no means on good terms with the General?" I went on. "Yes and I suppose you want to know why," she replied with dry captiousness.
In her eyes I corresponded to De Griers, and therefore had been condemned for a fault not wholly my own. Her mood of late had been a sort of delirium, a sort of light-headedness that I knew full well; yet, never had I sufficiently taken it into consideration. Perhaps she would not pardon me now?
I did so; whereupon she rose, approached the table, and laid upon it an open letter. "Read it," she added. "It is De Griers' handwriting!" I cried as I seized the document. My hands were so tremulous that the lines on the pages danced before my eyes.
By turns his face blanched and reddened, and he was trembling to such an extent that he could scarcely follow the old lady's play. At length Mlle. and the Prince took their departure, and the General followed them. "Madame, Madame," sounded the honeyed accents of De Griers as he leant over to whisper in the Grandmother's ear. "That stake will never win.
De Griers smoothed his hair, and twisted his angry face into a smile into the mean, studiedly polite French smile which I so detested; while the downcast, perplexed General assumed an air of dignity though only in a mechanical way. On the other hand, Mlle.
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