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The excuse was that de Malrive didn't like them; but as she's been separated for five or six years, I can't see . You say she's been very nice to your mother and the girls? Well, I daresay she is beginning to feel the need of friends she can really trust; for as for her French relations ! That Malrive set is the worst in the Faubourg.
All this had seemed evident enough to him as he entered the austere portals of the Hotel de Malrive and passed, between the faded liveries of old family servants, to the presence of the dreaded dowager above. But he had not been ten minutes in that presence before he had arrived at a faint intuition of what poor Fanny meant.
"You have put me still more deeply in your debt," he said, as she concluded; "I wish you would make the expression of this feeling a large part of the message I send back to Madame de Malrive." She brushed this aside with one of her light gestures of deprecation. "Oh, I told you I had my reasons.
Even after the governess's descent upon the scene had left Madame de Malrive and her visitor alone, the little boy's presence seemed to hover admonishingly between them, reducing to a bare statement of fact Durham's confession of the total failure of his errand. Madame de Malrive heard the confession calmly; she had been too prepared for it not to have prepared a countenance to receive it.
It was not through the groping speech which formed their apparent medium of communication that she imbibed her information: she found it in the air, she extracted it from Durham's look and manner, she caught it in the turn of her sister-in-law's defenseless eyes for in her presence Madame de Malrive became Fanny Frisbee again! she put it together, in short, out of just such unconsidered indescribable trifles as differentiated the quiet felicity of her dress from Nannie and Katy's "handsome" haphazard clothes.
Elmer and I so thoroughly disapprove of French society that we have always declined to take any part in it. But why should not Fanny de Malrive arrange a meeting for you?" Durham hesitated. "I don't think she is on very intimate terms with her husband's family " "You mean that she's not allowed to introduce her friends to them," Mrs.
She thinks there is no reason why you should not go to the Hotel de Malrive, as you will find her there alone, the family having gone to Auvergne. She is really our friend and understands us." In obedience to this request though perhaps inwardly regretting that it should have been made Durham that afternoon presented himself at the proud old house beyond the Seine.
The cry restored him to his senses by the long shaft of light it sent down the dark windings of the situation. He seemed suddenly to know Madame de Treymes as if he had been brought up with her in the inscrutable shades of the Hotel de Malrive.
Madame de Malrive had not become a Catholic, and since her religious scruples could not be played on, the only weapon remaining to the enemy the threat of fighting the divorce was one they could not wield without self-injury.
And yet young Durham, though not unsusceptible to such charms, had remained content to enjoy them from a safe distance of good fellowship. If he had been asked why, he could not have told; but the Durham of forty understood. It was because there were, with minor modifications, many other Fanny Frisbees; whereas never before, within his ken, had there been a Fanny de Malrive.
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