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To Anne were given passages of "Modern Painters" as examples of style, and Lamartine's "Jocelyn" for French pronunciation. I fear that Aunt Mary's appreciation of it was more imaginary than real. "The Newcomes" fell to my lot, being easier than poetry, and gave rise to many a debate about its superiority or inferiority to Thackeray's other works.
Gabrielle piloted Jocelyn, who was still in a good humour, to his bedroom door. Then she went to bed herself and slept as well as ever. Jocelyn, alone in his room, called for another bottle of whiskey and made a night of it. To be exact he made three days of it four less than might reasonably have been expected.
Jocelyn Gordon found a sort of fearful joy in the anger of this self-contained Englishman. It was an unfathomed mine of possible punishment over which she could in thought hold Victor Durnovo. "Nothing," she went on, "could be too mean nothing could be mean enough to mete out to him in payment of his own treachery and cowardice."
He also had little power of saying No to his gentle wife, and an appealing look from her blue eyes would settle every question of economy the wrong way. Next year they would be more prudent; at present, however, there were some things that it would be very nice to have or to do. But, alas, Mrs. Jocelyn had decided that, for Mildred's sake, the coming summer must be spent at Saratoga.
It helped him further to accept herself, otherwise could he his name known to be on a shop-front have aspired to her still? But, as an unexampled man, princely in soul, as he felt, why, he might kneel to Rose Jocelyn. So they listened to one another, and blinded the world by putting bandages on their eyes, after the fashion of little boys and girls.
A little boy of four years of age and a little girl of six, whose tiny form was draped in such gossamer-like fabrics that she seemed more fairy-like than human, were pulling at her dress, eager to enter the mirth-resounding parlors, but afraid to leave her sheltering wing. Mrs. Jocelyn watched the scene from the doorway, where her husband had stood, without his sigh.
Truly pious interested in your Louisa. She dreads that my husband will try to convert me to his creed. I can but weep and say never! 'I need not say I have my circle. To hear this ridiculous boy Harry Jocelyn grunt under my nose when he has led me unsuspectingly away from company Harriet! dearest! He thinks it a sigh! But there is no time for laughing.
When at last Mrs. Jocelyn revived she murmured piteously: "Oh, Millie, why didn't you let me die?" "Mamma," pleaded the girl, "how can you even think of leaving me?" "Millie, Millie darling, I fear I must. My heart feels as if it were bleeding internally. Millie" and she grasped her child's shoulder convulsively, "Millie, look in his room for for his pistol." "Oh, mamma, mamma!"
Susan and me are going to take our breakfast in the sitting-room with Mrs. Jocelyn and her family." "Am I not invited?" he asked a little anxiously. "There's no need of any invitation. You have as much right there as I have, only I would not come in looking like that." "They won't like it this new arrangement." "It seems to me that you have grown very considerate of what they like," put in Susan.
To her, Amadis de Jocelyn was the wonderful realisation of an ideal, but she was very silent concerning him, reserved and almost cold. This rather surprised good Miss Lavinia Leigh, whose romantic tendencies had been greatly stirred by the story of the knight of Briar Farm and the discovery of a descendant of the same family in one of the most admired artists of the day.
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