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But in a few moments, I thought of an answer: "Of course, I shall say that I am looking for Rivet's room, to speak to him about an important matter, and I began to inspect all the doors, trying to find hers, and at last I took hold of a handle at a venture, turned it and went in ... there was Henriette, sitting on her bed and looking at me in tears.
"You know a hawk from a hand-saw. Nobody can pass a motor-car off on you for a horse, can they, Bunny dear? Not while you have that eagle eye of yours wide open. Yes, sir. That is the scheme. I am going to pay the rental of this mansion with its contents. Half a million dollars' worth of contents means how long at twenty-five hundred dollars a month? Eh?" "Gad! Henriette," I cried.
But how do you suppose the Oliver-Sloshingtons ever got in here?" "He holds the divorce record I believe," said I. "He's been married to four social leaders already, hasn't he?" "Yes " "Well, he got into the swim with each marriage so he's got a four-ply grip," said I. "And the Dedbroke-Hickses?" asked Henriette. "How do you account for them?"
They wanted to keep us for the day, and they arranged an excursion to go and see some ruins. Henriette made signs to me to stay, behind her parents' back, and I accepted, but Rivet was determined to go, and though I took him aside, and begged and prayed him to do this for me, he appeared quite exasperated and kept saying to me: "I have had enough of that pig Morin's affair, do you hear?"
"Why, your voice shakes like your hands; and oh, how white you are. But you are glad to see us, I hope?" "Gladder than I can say, Henriette." "I am glad you don't call me Papillon. I have left off that ridiculous name, which I ought never to have permitted."
I have suddenly had a glimpse into my future, and you were not there, as hitherto, your eyes shining and fixed upon me " "Henriette! idol whose worship is like that of the Divine, lily, flower of my life, how is it that you do not know, you who are my conscience, that my being is so fused with yours that my soul is here when my body is in Paris?
You would not let him paint you. Ah! que c'est drole! You are so pretty, too. Hein, Monsieur Barra, is not mademoiselle pretty?" The soldier gave his heavy giggle, and resumed his scrutiny of the floor. "Henriette," said Lavendie, "sit down beside Chica you must not stand. Sit down, mademoiselle, I beg." "I'm so sorry you're not well," said Noel, and sat down again.
Henriette had been unwontedly reserved for a whole week, a fact which was beginning to get sadly on my nerves when she broke an almost Sphinxlike silence with the extraordinary remark: "Bunny, I am sorry, but I don't see any other way out of it. You must get married." To say that I was shocked by the observation is putting it mildly.
He had brought the thousand louis d'or, and told Henriette that he would give her two men whom he could recommend in every way. She answered that she would leave Geneva as soon as she had the carriage which he was to provide for her, according to the letter I had delivered to him. He promised that everything would be ready for the following day, and he left us. It was indeed a terrible moment!
You mustn't be so careless, dear, or we may have to divvy up our spoil with others." Marvellous woman, that Henriette! Henriette was visibly angry the other morning when I took to her the early mail and she discovered that Mrs. Van Varick Shadd had got ahead of her in the matter of Jockobinski, the monkey virtuoso.
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