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For all her personal downfall, Elinka, Markrute's sister, and an emperor's daughter, remained an absolute grande dame never mixing or mingling with any people but her own belongings. But now that she was dead, poor Mimo had sometimes gone for company into a class other than his own. As yet Zara's thoughts had not turned upon her new existence which was to be.
Expect Tristram's pulled the curb doesn't understand as yet." "Why, how could a person who must always have had heaps of cash Markrute's niece, you know and a fine position be like your dog, Crow? You are drawing it!" "Well, you need not mind what I say, Jimmy," Colonel Lowerby went on. "Judge for yourself.
"Well, up to now I have not," Lord Tancred announced, "and may the day be far off when one does. I feel pretty safe!" A strange, mysterious smile crept over Mr. Markrute's face. "By the way, also, how do you know the lady would be willing to marry me, Francis? You spoke as if I only had to be consulted in the affair." "So you have.
And during one of Francis Markrute's turnings to his left-hand neighbor Lord Coltshurst said to Lady Ethelrida: "I think Tristram's choice peculiarly felicitous, Ethelrida, do not you? But I fear her ladyship" and he glanced timidly at his wife "will not take this view. She has a most unreasonable dislike for young women with red hair. 'Ungovernable temperaments, she affirms.
So she continued to talk agreeably to them, and Tristram made a great effort, and chaffed her, and became gay. And soon they went in to dinner. And Lady Tancred sat on Francis Markrute's other side, and tried to overcome her prejudice against him. If Ethelrida loved him so much he must be really nice.
Countess Shulski clasped her hands convulsively in her lap, and with all the pride and control of her voice there was a note of anguish, too, which would have touched any heart but one so firmly guarded as Francis Markrute's. "Ah, God!" she said so low that he could only just hear her, "I have paid the price of my body and soul once for them. It is too much to ask it of me a second time "
Francis Markrute's face changed, as it always did with the mention and discussion of Mirko whose presence in the world was an ever-rankling proof of his loved sister's disgrace. All his sense of justice and he was in general a just man could never reconcile him to the idea of ever seeing or recognizing the child.
When he had gone Francis Markrute's first act was to sit down and write a four-figure check for the Cripple Children's Hospital: he believed in thankofferings. Then he rubbed his hands softly together as he went up to his bed. Then Lord Tancred left the house in Park Lane he did not go on to the supper party at the Savoy he had promised to attend.
She had just the look in her eyes the night we all first met her, at Mr. Markrute's at dinner that strange, angry, pained, sorrowful look, as though she were a furnace of resentment against some fate.
Will you send it to Vienna or Paris, to some great artist, and get it really arranged, and then when I play it we shall always be able to see Maman." And the moisture gathered again in Francis Markrute's eyes. "Oh, my dear!" he said. "Will you forgive me some day for my hardness, for my arrogance to you both? I never knew, I never understood until lately what love could mean in a life.
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