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Again a silence intervened, and in the midst of it the senator sat up and began to feel half-absently in his pockets for a cigar. Blount offered his own pocket-case, following it with the tender of a lighted match. With the cigar going, the Honorable David settled back in the deep chair, chuckling thoughtfully.
"Ah, good-day, Monsieur Charles!" cried he, "It is long since we met. Odd, too, that I should meet you to-day. I was just thinking of you this morning." "Why, may I ask?" said Charles, half-absently. "Well, you see, only to-day I saw up at the bank a paper a bill for thirty or forty thousand francs bearing both your name and that of Monsieur Alphonse.
Did you play the harp, when you were a girl, Lady Myrtle? she went on rather eagerly. She was vaguely anxious to change the conversation, for she had still a half-nervous fear of Frances's indiscretion should the subject of their school-fellows be entered upon. 'The harp! repeated Lady Myrtle, half-absently; 'no, my love, I never was very musical.
'I suppose she thought it would be all over in a day or two, she said, half-absently. The Sister looked puzzled. 'And that it would be better not to risk the effect on his wife? Of course Mrs. Sarratt does look dreadfully delicate. So you don't think it was a mistake? It's very difficult to see how it could be!
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