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"We are all dust," returned the Duchess, who was whispering to Joyselle about the Grand Duchess Anastasia-Katherine, dans le temps. "Oh, no, we are all worms, aren't we?" "Positively, I never saw such very inferior coals," went on the Vicar, wondering what on earth she was talking about. Brigit looked at him as he babbled on. He was a very thin man, who always reminded her of a plucked bird.
For her love for Joyselle was, of course, a purely selfish one. For several minutes she sat crouching on the stairs, utterly undecided as to what her next step was to be. Then a sound from within the room behind her caused her to turn sharply. A sound of not music, but of pitiless, furious scraping and grinding on a violin. Could it be Joyselle?
"I want to be a violinist," he said slowly, after a pause during which the Duchess, with a little shriek, rescued her salad, which William had pounced upon. "A violinist!" "Hush! Please don't tell." "Of course I'll not tell, but " "Have you heard him play?" "Joyselle? Of course I have." "Well?" asked Tommy in quiet triumph. What more could anyone say? The old woman smiled sweetly at him.
Old Joyselle finished his act of adding a domino to the long line before him and then looked up. He was a rather small, bent old man, with quantities of rough, curly grey hair and a petulant expression. "Ugh!" he said rudely. "Shake hands with him, Brigit," suggested Victor pulling his moustache to suppress a smile. Brigit held out her hand. "I am very glad to meet you," she said in French.
"I am glad to have an opportunity of seeing you, Lady Kingsmead," he began abruptly, fixing his dark eyes on hers. "Our little private correspondence has, I trust, been as pleasing to you as it has to me?" "I have greatly enjoyed it." "I am delighted. And they, the fiancés, know nothing of it?" "Of course not, Monsieur Joyselle."
The little roundabout woman wiped her hand on her apron, and taking the girl's in hers, looked mutely up at her with eyes so full of timid sweetness that Brigit, touched and pleased, bent and kissed her. "Voyons, voyons," cried Joyselle, rubbing his hands and executing a few steps by the fire, "here we are all one family. Félicité, my old woman, is she not wonderful?"
"My dear Brigit," he wrote, "just a line to say good-bye to you for a time. What shall it be diamonds? I hope you will say lace yards and yards of exquisite lace of all kinds it is so much more poetic than stones. So au revoir, my dear, and may all happiness be yours. "Joyselle." She sat up in bed and drew a long, uneven breath. She had not counted on the possibility of flight!
Joyselle, always tender and considerate of her, yet seemed to regard her as a kind of cross between a mother and a nurse, and she, never precisely retiring, and almost always present during Brigit's visits, appeared to be perfectly used to the rôle that he assigned her, and sat, usually silent, a kindly spectator of whatever might be going on.
When is the is the wedding-day fixed?" "Oh, no," she returned hastily, "dear me, no. She is in no hurry to marry, and he is, of course, dough in her hands. You, at least, needn't worry about that. Will you dine here?" "Sorry " "She is to be here, and Joyselle. Théo is out of town." Carron rose and hesitated. "Do you think she'd mind?" he asked piteously. A sharp pang touched her worldly heart.
In time Joyselle would learn to evade these pitfalls, with which their future seemed to bristle, but as yet he was so unused to avoiding things in his path that it was almost a miracle that she had, as she put it with a half-whimsical, half-despairing smile, got him safely home without an outburst.
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