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Not that she had ever fancied herself, poor soul, a "femme incomprise." She had, on the contrary, prided herself on being understood by her husband, almost as much as on her own complete comprehension of him. Wentworth laid a good deal of stress on "motives"; and Margaret Ransom and her husband had dwelt in a complete community of motive.
Clavering would return to his native place and country, his wife's fortune would pay his encumbrances off, and his son and heir would be one of the first men in the county. "And Miss Amory?" Laura asked. Laura was uncommonly curious about Miss Amory. Strong laughed. "Oh, Miss Amory is a muse Miss Amory is a mystery Miss Amory is a femme incomprise." "What is that?" asked simple Mrs.
He took up his hat from the desk on which he had thrown it on entering the room, and sauntered out to the front of the hotel in a complete vacancy of thought and emotion; and as he lounged there, thinking of nothing and caring for nothing, there was woven into the woof of life the next thread of his destiny, for who should drive up to the main door of the Three Friends, with her maid and her luggage, and all the airs and impertinences of a person of fashion, but La Femme Incomprise.
"You see," he said, "she never knew the fearful importance of marriage. She thought it was all in the day's march it would have to come and Dawes well, a good many women would have given their souls to get him; so why not him? Then she developed into the femme incomprise, and treated him badly, I'll bet my boots." "And she left him because he didn't understand her?" "I suppose so.
I began to understand her; and what is so charming as to read the secret of a real femme incomprise?-for such there are, though they are not the ones who think themselves uncomprehended women. Poets are never young, in one sense. Their delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them.
She sought other interests; she contrived to combine very dexterously the femme incomprise with the leader of fashion; she posed as a patron of letters and the arts, indulging in intellectual flirtations with professors and other learned folk. There was no harm in this, and William Adolphus would not have been in the smallest degree disturbed by it.
Though when she pretended to care for them she annoyed him, if possible, still more. As for Lady Rose, she went through all the familiar emotions of the femme incomprise. And with the familiar result.
Among posthumously printed documents of Cheyne Row, to this date belongs the humorous appeal of Mrs. Carlyle for a larger allowance of house money, entitled "Budget of a Femme Incomprise."
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