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'We won't have all the world, my dear, she had said to Gertrude, 'but just a few of our own set that are really nice. Clementina is dying to try that new back step with M. Jaquetanape, so we won't crowd the room. Such were the immediate arrangements of the Tudor and Scott party.
And then there were all manner of hieroglyphics sometimes, unfortunately, illegible to Katie herself French names and English names mixed together in a manner most vexatious; and to make matters worse, she found that she had put down both Victoire Jaquetanape and Mr.
They were met at the gate of the Gardens by a party of young men, of whom Victoire Jaquetanape was foremost. Alaric and Charley were to come down there when their office work was done. Undy was by this time on his road to Tillietudlem; and Captain Val was playing billiards at his club.
The Internal Navigation had ever been a low place, and he was surprised that the Hon. Mrs. Val should have admitted one of the navvies inside her drawing-room. And so the ball went on. Mr. Johnson came duly for the lancers, and M. Jaquetanape for the polka.
Alaric winced, and wished in his heart that Clementina Jaquetanape, nee Golightly, with all her money, was buried deep in the bogs of Ballydehob. Though he was a rogue, he could not yet bear his roguery with comfort to himself. It sat, however, as easy on Undy as though he had been to the manner born.
'My answer to your inquiries, Mrs. Scott, is this I shall not condescend to go into any details as to Madame Jaquetanape 's fortune with anyone but my co-trustee.
Val had been speaking with bated breath, so that no one had heard her but she to whom she was speaking; but Gertrude had been unable so to confine her answers, and as she made her last reply Madame Jaquetanape and the Misses Neverbend were all ears. 'Ha, ha, ha! laughed Mrs. Val. 'Upon my word, my dear, it is amusing to hear you take it up.
Everything in the house was given up to pay what Alaric owed. Independently of his dreadful liability to Madame Jaquetanape, he could not have been said to be in debt; but still, like most other men who live as he had done, when his career was thus brought to a sudden close, it was found that there were many people looking for money.
Unfortunate man! what would he have given now to change his position for Norman's single clerkship, or even for Charley's comparative poverty! Gertrude stayed within all day; but not all day in solitude. About four in the afternoon the Hon. Mrs. Val called, and with her came her daughter Clem, now Madame Jaquetanape, and the two Misses Neverbend.
There was to be a dance after she and her Victoire were gone, and she could not join in it! We, however, are in the position, as regards Clementina, in which needy gentlemen not unfrequently place themselves with reference to rich heiresses. We have more concern with her money than herself. She was married, and M. Jaquetanape became the happy possessor of an income of L800 a year.
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