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The case, even at this critical moment, did not seem quite hopeless. When they came to Mrs. Armour, Lali shrank away timidly from the look in the mother's eyes, and, shivering slightly, looked round for her blanket. But Lambert had deftly passed it on to the footman. Presently Mrs. Then they moved away to a closed carriage. And that was the second act in Frank Armour's comedy of errors.
When Marion came back from town at night and told of her trials among the dressmakers, when she asked the general opinion and sometimes individual judgment, she could not know that it was at the expense of Lali's nerves. Lali, when she married, had changed her moccasins, combed her hair, and put on a fine red belt, and that was all. She was not envious now, not at all.
The rest of the family were making their preparations inside the house. There was no one near to watch the singular little drama. "You should not say that," he added; "we all feel you to be one of us." "But all your world does not feel me to be one of them," she rejoined. "We shall see about that when you go up to town. You are a bit morbid, Lali.
Lali's face underwent a slight change as her husband's fingers touched her neck. "I must go," she said. "I hope I have not broken up a serious conversation or were you not so serious after all?" she said, glancing archly at General Armour. "We were talking of women," said Lambert. "The subject is wide," replied Lali, "and the speakers many. One would think some wisdom might be got in such a case."
She had found, as it seemed to her, and as so many have believed until their lives' end, the secret of existence. Lali saw the glistening joy, and responded to it, just as it was in her being to respond to every change of nature that sensitiveness was in her as deep as being. "You are very happy, dear?" she said to Marion. "You cannot think how happy, Lali.
Just in proportion as this had increased, her respect for Frank had decreased. No man can keep a front of dignity in the face of an unbecoming action. However, Mackenzie had her moment, and when it was over, the new life began at no general disadvantage to Frank. To all save the immediate family Frank and Lali were a companionable husband and wife.
The two stood and looked at each other a moment, each wondering what were the thoughts of the other. Lali was struck by that high, proud look over which lay a glamour of infinite satisfaction, of sweetness, which comes to every good woman's face when she goes to the altar in a marriage which is not contingent on the rise or fall in stocks, or a satisfactory settlement.
They passed into the room where the child lay sleeping; they went to his little bed, and Lali stretched out her hand gently, touching the curls of the child. Running a finger through one delicately, she said, with a still softer tone than before: "Why should not one be happy?"
She must be taught English and educated, and made possible in "Christian clothing," as Mrs. Armour put it. Of the education they almost despaired all save Richard; time, instruction, vanity, and a dressmaker might do much as to the other. The evening of her arrival, Lali would not, with any urging, put on clothes of Marion's which had been sent in to her.
The Armours were giving a large party in Cavendish Square before going back again to Greyhope, where, for the sake of Lali and her child, they intended to remain during the rest of the summer, in preference to going on the Continent or to Scotland. The only unsatisfactory feature of Lali's season was the absence of her husband.
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