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"Well," he began, slowly, "when I heard that Laura Magot's husband had failed, as I knew that Lucia Darro's husband had once been jilted by Laura Magot because he failed, I could not help wondering now, Lucia dear, how could I help wondering? I wondered how Lucia Darro would feel. Because because " He made a full stop, and smiled. "Because what?" asked his wife. He lingered, and smiled.
When they had come out into the bower, the Countess took her daughter in her arms, and kissed her brow. "Now, my Magot," said she playfully it was not much forced, for her faith was great in the blessed hair "now, my Magot, thou wilt get well again. Thou must!" Margaret looked up into the loving face above her, and a faint, sad smile flitted across her lips.
"And I do not know how to tell my Magot. Perhaps one of you might manage it better than I could. And she had better be told, for she is sure to hear it in some way, and I would fain spare the child all I can." "About Sir Richard the Earl, Lady?" asked Beatrice. "Yes, of course. He is married, Beatrice."
Then, lastly, they said he had obtained favour of the Lord King by help of the black art." Marjory smiled contemptuously. "Aunt Marjory!" cried her indignant niece. "Why, it is not a month since I was taken ill in the night, after I had supped likewise. Do you suppose he poisoned me?" "It is quite possible that walnuts might have something to do with it, Magot. But did I say he poisoned any one?"
But it would increase the efficacy, if the damsel would devoutly repeat this evening the Rosary of the holy Virgin, with twelve Glorias and one hundred Aves." "Get thee to it, quickly, Magot, my darling, and I will say them with thee, which will surely be of still more benefit Master, I thank you inexpressibly!"
But my Lord is not one of the latter, the holy saints be thanked." "And thou art one of the women who can manage men," answered Marjory, laughing. "I wonder at thee, Magot, and have done so many times, thou hast such a strange power of winning folks to thy will." "Well, that some have, and some have not. I have it, I know," said the Countess, complacently.
I shall say nothing of the self-respect of the public. To the self- respect of the public the present appeal against the censorship is being made and I join in it with all my heart. For I have lived long enough to learn that the monstrous and outlandish figure, the magot chinois whom I believed to be but a memorial of our forefathers' mental aberration, that grotesque potiche, works!
When Boniface Newt led Nancy Magot to the altar, he recorded, in a large business hand, both the date of his marriage and his wife's birth. She protested, it was vulgar. And when the bridegroom inquired whether the vulgarity were in the fact of being born or in recording it, she said: "Mr. Newt, I am ashamed of you," and locked up the evidence.
The Magots, however, had no buttons upon their coachman's coat; one reason of which omission was, perhaps, that they had no coachman. But when the ladies of the Magot family went visiting or shopping they hired a carriage, and insisted that the driver should brush his hat and black his boots; so that it was not every body who knew that it was a livery equipage.
Felix paused a moment, unseen, and caught the words the stranger was singing: "Très jolie, Peu polie, Possédant un gros magot; Fort en gueule, Pas bégueule; Telle était " The stranger looked up, and paused in the midst of his lines, open-mouthed. For a moment he stood and stared astonished.
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