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"I know Marraine and Gillian between them have brought you back. But you are free of me. As you see I shall never do any more harm. No other man will come to grief for the sake of the Wielitzska. . . . I determined that as I had made others pay, so I would pay. I think" suddenly moving towards the window and standing full in the brilliant sunlight "I think you'll agree I've settled the bill."
When she returned to her home she immediately entered upon the career of marraine, corresponding with several hundred of the men she either had known or whose names were given to her by their commanding officers. Naturally the work progressed beyond her capacity and she called upon friends to help her out.
He did not know what you were talking about, with your Crusading ancestors and the D'Olanes. I could see it in his face. You are all blood-blind up here, Cousin Pem. I was laughing to myself all the time, for I guessed who Dan Dolan was. I knew he was at St. Andrew's. His dear old Aunt Winnie is one of my truest friends." "O Marraine, Marraine!" murmured Polly, eagerly.
"It is," he assented. "All the same, I believe I could consume a tin of bully beef and feel humbly grateful for it at the present moment!" Magda had a sudden inspiration. "Michael! Let's forage in the locker! There's almost sure to be some biscuits or chocolate there. Marraine nearly always has things like that put on board. And there may be something left from the last supply."
Own up, now, Marraine! What's the secret you've got up your sleeve?" "Yes, there is a secret," acknowledged Lady Arabella gleefully. "Come along and I'll show it you." Magda smiled and followed her across the long hall and into a room at the further end of which stood a big easel. On the easel, just nearing completion, rested a portrait of her godmother. It was rather a wonderful portrait.
Murphy's defective motor provided him with the names and addresses of every possible and impossible marraine in the town of Y , near which he was compelled to land. While waiting for the arrival of his mechanician with a new supply of spark-plugs, he left his monoplane in a field close by.
"Never mind, Pollykins!" comforted Marraine, who could find stars in the darkest sky. "We'll each take a dollar and go shopping." "Only a dollar, Marraine? That won't buy much," said Polly, who had walked in ways where dollars seem very small indeed. "Oh, yes, it will! There's no telling what it can buy in Jonah's junk shop," laughed Marraine.
I've engaged a nice, tame pussy-cat person to take charge of my morals and chaperon me generally. Not like you, Marraine an Early Victorian autocrat with a twentieth-century tongue." "If you mean Mrs. Grey, she doesn't give me the least impression of being a 'nice, tame pussy-cat," retorted Lady Arabella. "You'll find that out, my dear." Magda regarded her thoughtfully. "Do you think so?"
Her godmother found her there still as an image when presently she came to ask after her health. "Tamara! dearest child. You worry me dreadfully. Confide in me, little one. Tell me what has happened?" and she placed her kind arms around her goddaughter's shoulders and caressed and comforted her. Tamara shivered, and then stood up. "I am going to marry Gritzko, Marraine," she said.
He had formed several friendships with women of a sort which both parties may regard with pride, in particular with the Princess Belgiojoso, one of the most striking and original figures of our monotonous time, and Madame Maxime Jaubert, a clever, attractive young woman with a delightful house, whom he called his Marraine because she had given him a nickname.
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