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Laurance had stipulated that the marriage should be deferred for one year, alleging that her daughter was yet very young, and having been so long separated she wished her to remain with her at least for some months. Mr. Palma reluctantly assented to conditions which compelled him to return to America without Regina, and in November Mrs.
Waul spoke from her distant recess: "General Laurance will find his hat between the ottoman and the window." The winding walks of the Villa were comparatively deserted, when Mrs. Orme began to pace slowly to and fro beneath the trees, whose foliage swayed softly in the mild evening air.
Laurance saw a slow dumb motion of the pale lips that breathed no sound to fill the verbal frame they mutely fashioned "my husband;" and then with a gradual drooping of the heavily lashed lids, the eyes closed.
Clasping the girl's fingers firmly she led her forward, and when to front of the old man, she exclaimed: "René Laurance, blood triumphs over malice, perjury, and bribery; whose is this child? Is she Merle, Peterson, or Laurance?"
Only the day previous he had arrived, and now came to test the power of memory over his wife's heart. "Father, she is sitting alone on the verandah, with such a world of sadness in her eyes, which have lost the blessed power of weeping. Go to her. I believe you need no ally to reach my mother's heart." Mr. Laurance kissed her fair forehead, and walked away; and passing his arm around Regina, Mr.
Laurance, lengthening the range of her opera glass, and levelling it at a group where the shimmer of jewels attracted her attention. How the words grated on her husband's ear, grown strangely sensitive within an hour?
"She was a sentimental, fanciful creature. She might have married well but she preferred to waste her life pining over the memory of a man who was not worthy to untie the shoelace of a Laurance." Mrs. DeLisle sighed softly and made no reply. People said that she had had her own romance in her youth and that her mother had sternly repressed it. I had heard that her marriage with Mr.
Laurance outlined the facts of his escape upon a raft, which was hastily constructed by several of the crew when the boats were beyond their reach. Upon this he had placed Maud, and on the morning after the wreck of the vessel they succeeded in getting into one of the boats which was floating bottom upward, and providentially drifted quite near the raft.
Was that grey-eyed Cleopatra with burnished hair, low smooth brow, and lips like Lamia's, resting in her guardian's arms his wife? Three months had elapsed since the day on which Mr. Chesley received his last letter, containing tidings that bowed and broke the haughty spirit of Mrs. Laurance; and if Mr. Palma had written again, Regina had not been informed of the fact.
"My daughter is unlike me; is so entirely the image of her lost father, that the sight of her beauty sometimes overwhelms me with torturing memories. Here. General Laurance is a carefully written paper, which I submit for your examination and mature reflection.
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