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Orme, will you allow me the favour of presenting my friend General Laurance, who requests the honour of an introduction?" She had been unaware of the presence of his companion, who was concealed from view, and as he stepped forward and took off his hat, she drew herself up, and at last they were face to face.
Laurance with her brilliant wrappings was the most prominent of the group, and in the blaze of the gaslight looked at least thirty-five; a woman of large proportions compactly built, with broad shoulders that sustained a rather short thick neck, now exposed in extreme décolleté style, as if to aid the unsuccessful elongation of nature.
She cannot live long; death has set a shadowy mark already upon her weird eyes, and until they close in the peace of the grave let us leave her the name she seems so proud of. She pronounced it Maud Ames Laurance, as though it were a royal title. Let her bear it. I can wait." As Mr.
He kissed it tenderly, and keeping it in his, spoke very earnestly: "Only one thing, Odille, I desire to stipulate, and that springs solely from my jealous love. You must promise to abandon the stage for ever. Indeed, my beautiful darling, I could not endure to see my wife, my own, before the footlights. In Mrs. Laurance the world must lose its lovely idol."
Laurance's possession, and the stately mansion had been repaired and refurnished, awaiting its owner; but she shrank with a shiver from the mention of the place, announcing her intention to visit it no more, until she was laid to rest in the proud family tomb, whither the remains of General René Laurance had already been removed.
"A man of your years does not lightly forsake the traditions of his Caste, and the usages of his ancestors; and what can patricians like General Laurance hope to secure by stooping to the borders of proletaire?" "The woman whom he loves. To you I will confess, that never until within the past six or eight months have I really comprehended the power of genuine love.
At length General Laurance struggled to his feet, and mechanically quitted the theatre, followed by his son. Reaching the carriage, they entered, and Cuthbert ordered the coachman to drive to Mrs. Orme's hotel. "Not now! For God's sake, not to-night," groaned the old man. "To-night, before another hour, this awful imposture must be confessed, and reparation offered.
"Pauline Laurance, my sister; the exact, the wonderful image! Laurance, all Laurance, from head to foot." He dropped back into the chair, and smiled vacantly. Cuthbert sprang forward, his face all aglow, his eyes radiant, and eloquent. "Minnie, is this indeed our child? Your daughter and mine?" He extended his arms, but she waved him back. "Do not touch her! How dare you?
"If it were not so late, I would accompany you to the railway station. You will have a lonely ride. Good-bye, Mrs. Laurance." "Lonely, sir? Aye lonely for ever." She laughed bitterly, and entered the carriage. "Laughed, and the echoes huddling in affright, Like Odin's hounds fled baying down the night."
The banker's daughter, and the Laurance heiress she bore you, are entitled to what remains of your fickle selfish heart, and I trust that the two who supplanted my baby and me will suffice for your happiness in the future as in the past. Into my own and my darling's life you can enter no more. 'Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he reap.
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