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Various attempts upon the life of Orange Delft Mansion of the Prince described Francis Guion or Balthazar Girard His antecedents His correspondence and interviews with Parma and with d'Assonleville His employment in France His return to Delft and interview with Orange The crime The confession The punishment The consequences Concluding remarks.
It came to him as a discovery, made there and then, that Olivia Guion had seized this elect state with one of her earliest tendrils, and, climbing on by way of New York and Washington, had chosen to do her actual flowering in a cosmopolitan air. He had none of the resentment the home-bred American business man habitually feels for this kind of eccentricity.
It was not till the death of the latter, some seven years ago, that Guion, obliged to pause, was able to take cognizance of the degree to which he had imperiled himself in the years of effort to maintain their way of life. It could not be said that at the time he regretted what he had done, but he allowed it to frighten him into some ineffectual economies.
It was also in its way enlightening, since it showed him the true standing in the world of this woman whom he had once, for a few wild minutes, hoped to make his wife. The dinner was half over before he began clearly to detach Miss Guion from that environment which he would have called "the best Boston society."
"I could afford it," she went on, "because of those ridiculous copper-mines the Hamlet and Tecla. I wasn't rich before that. My dot was small. No Guion I ever heard of was able to save money. My father was no exception." "You are in the Hamlet and Tecla!" Davenant's blue eyes were wide open. He was on his own ground.
At the same time it gave glory to the glamour in which the image of Olivia Guion always appeared to him to think she had passed and repassed these solemn gates at will, and that the stately Louis Quinze hôtel, of which the concierge allowed him a glimpse across the courtyard, had, on and off, been her home for years.
"So that," he concluded, "now that Mr. Guion is safe, if Miss Guion could only marry the man the man she cares for everything would be put as nearly right as we can make it." "And at present they are at a deadlock. She won't marry him if he has to sell his property, and so forth; and he can't marry her, and live in debt to you. Is that it?" "That's it, madame, exactly.
She could hear a muffled assent as she left the room. She was afraid he was crying. Nevertheless, when she had gone Guion rang for Reynolds and made his usual careful toilet with uncommon elaboration. By the time his guest arrived he was brushed and curled and stretched on the couch.
He had stolen Mrs. Clay's money, and Mrs. Rodman's money, "and a lot of other payple's money, too," Miss Murphy was able to affirm clients for whom Guion, Maxwell & Guion had long acted as trustees and was now to be tried and sentenced, Lawyer Benn himself being put in charge of the affair by the parties wronged.
If the family paid me, Miss Guion would feel quite differently and so would Colonel Ashley." "When you say the family," she sniffed, "you mean me." "In the sense that I naturally think first of its most distinguished member. And, of course, the greater the distinction the greater must be shall I call it the indignity? of living under an obligation "
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