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His surprise had evidently impressed her as furtiveness, for she said, "So it is Mr. Easterday?" He was at a loss what to do with her how to turn her away. For Maisie's sake she must not be allowed to enter, for then she would discover that they had been alone. He opened the door a few inches wider and parried to gain time. "If it's Mr.
Probably, had he seen the two old sisters side by side, he would have chosen this one as his mother. Her eighty was much nearer to her sixty than old Maisie's. She was no beautiful old shadow, with that strange plenty of perfectly white hair. Time's hand had left hers merely grey, as a set off against the lesser quantity he had spared her.
He tried to sound like one affectionately resigned, decently renouncing, not as though he felt this blessedness of relief, absolved from dread, mercifully and incredibly let off. But Maisie's sweetness hated to refuse and frustrate; it couldn't bear to hurt him. She held him tighter. "Jerrold if it is if you can't stand it, you mustn't mind about me. You must forget I ever said anything.
As his name was announced, he heard the rustle of her dress, and discovered that she had been seated in a low chair by the window. She rose with a slow grace. There was something indefinably tragic and foreordained about her every movement. Maisie's name for her flashed into his mind, "The Princess Czarina Bolsheviki." It suited her exactly.
Poor, pale Ettie grew thinner and wanner under her law daily, while Maisie's temper, naturally docile, was being spoiled before one's eyes by persistent, needless thwarting. As spring came on, however, I began to hope that things were really mending. Le Geyt looked brighter; some of his own careless, happy-go-lucky self came back again at intervals.
"That must have been the reason." Halfway down he stopped short again, slapping his leg. "And poor Mrs. Wix?" Maisie's face just showed a shadow. "Do you want her to come?" "Dear no I want to see you alone." "That's the way I want to see YOU!" she replied. "Like before." "Like before!" he gaily echoed. "But I mean has she had her coffee?" "No, nothing." "Then I'll send it up to her. Madame!"
Her very silence became after this one of the largest elements of Maisie's consciousness; it proved a warm and habitable air, into which the child penetrated further than she dared ever to mention to her companions. Somewhere in the depths of it the dim straighteners were fixed upon her; somewhere out of the troubled little current Mrs. Wix intensely waited.
I know you'll think me mad, when he's gone and married somebody else, but I feel all the time as if he hadn't, as if he belonged to me and always had; and I to him. Whoever Maisie's married it isn't Jerrold. Not the real Jerrold." "The fact remains that she's married him." "No. Not him. Only a bit of him. Some bit that doesn't matter." "Anne darling, I'd try not to think that." "I don't think it.
"It was exactly what I thought it would be, only worse." He laughed. "Worse?" "I mean she was sweeter.... Jerrold, she makes me feel such a brute. Such an awful brute. And if she ever knows " "She won't know." When he had left her Anne flung herself down on the couch and cried. All evening Maisie's tulips stood up in the blue-and-white Chinese bowl on the table.
This reason, Sir Claude said, was that she happened to be just going to be, though they had nothing to do with that in now directing their steps to the banks of the Serpentine. Maisie's own park, in the north, had been nearer at hand, but they rolled westward in a hansom because at the end of the sweet June days this was the direction taken by every one that any one looked at.
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