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Under the Count's tuition he studied with reverential awe the Huescar history. Princes, statesmen, warriors, glittered, golden apples, from the spreading branches of its genealogical tree. Why not again! its attenuated blue sap strengthened with the rich, red blood, brewed by toil and effort in the grim laboratories of the under world.
"She was Miss Hasluck," I answered; "she is the Countess Huescar now. She was married last summer." "Oh, yes, I remember; you told us about her. You were children together. But what's the good of your being in love with her if she's married?" "It makes my whole life beautiful." "Wanting somebody you can't have?" "I don't want her." "You said you were in love with her." "So I am."
If she was, do you think I should give her up because some fool has stuck his label on her?" I felt the anger burning in my eyes. "Yours, his! She is no man's property. She is herself," I cried. The wrinkles round his nose and mouth smoothed themselves out. "You need not be afraid," he sneered. "As you say, she is the Countess Huescar. Can you imagine her as Mrs. Doctor Washburn? I can't."
The army of Ferdinand poured into the Vega by various defiles of the mountains, and on the 23d of April the royal tent was pitched at a village called Los Ojos de Huescar, about a league and a half from Granada. At the approach of this formidable force the harassed inhabitants turned pale, and even many of the warriors trembled, for they felt that the last desperate struggle was at hand.
You do not know me, Paul. I must have rank, position. What am I? The daughter of rich old Hasluck, who began life as a butcher in the Mile End Road. As the Princess Huescar, society will forget, as Mrs." it seemed to me she checked herself abruptly "Jones or Brown it would remember, however rich I might be. I am vain, Paul, caring for power ambition. I have my father's blood in me.
I shall be a Countess, Paul, the Countess Huescar I will teach you how to pronounce it and I shall have a real castle in Spain. You need not look so frightened, Paul; we shall not live there. It is a half-ruined, gloomy place, among the mountains, and he loves it even less than I do. Paris and London will be my courts, so you will see me often.
I must probe, analyse, dissect, see the thing as it really is, know it for what it is." "Well, she is the Countess Huescar now," I said. "For God's sake, leave her alone." He turned to me with the snarl of a beast. "How do you know she is the Countess Huescar? Is it a special breed of woman made on purpose? How do you know she isn't my wife brain and heart, flesh and blood, mine?
At first he had talked boastingly: Had I seen the Post for last Monday, the Court Circular for the week before? Had I read that Barbara had danced with the Crown Prince, that the Count and Countess Huescar had been entertaining a Grand Duke? Was not money master of the world? Ay, and the nobs should be made to acknowledge it! But as he had gulped down glass after glass the brag had died away.
Hal did not return to England till the end of the year, by which time the Count and Countess Huescar though I had her permission still to call her Barbara, I never availed myself of it; the "Countess" fitted my mood better had taken up residence in the grand Paris house old Hasluck had bought for them.
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