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And she did love him, and would fain have pleaded his cause, had she not been cowed by the authority that had ruled her all her life. 'Lesbia, if I thought you had been silly enough, degraded enough, to give this young man encouragement, to have justified his audacity of to-day by any act or word of yours, I should despise, I should detest you, said Lady Maulevrier, sternly.
The city, built in the form of an amphitheatre, was illuminated; an immense bonfire had been lighted. The next day Madame laid the corner-stone of a monument in honor of d'Elbee, and saluted at Pinen-Mauges, the statue of Cathelineau. The 8th of July, she was at the Chateau of Maulevrier, whose owner, M. de Colbert, had erected a monument to the memory of Stofflet, the heroic huntsman.
'Waiter, bring me a Bradshaw, or an A B C, said Lord Hartfield. He had eaten nothing but a biscuit since breakfast, but he was ready to go off at once, supperless, if there were a train to carry him. Unluckily there was no train. The mail had started. Nothing till seven o'clock next morning. 'Eat your supper, old fellow, said Maulevrier.
Sharp drops of rain came spitting at Hammond and Mary as they climbed the crest of the Pike, and stopped, somewhat breathless, to look back at Maulevrier. He was trudging blithely down the winding way, and seemed to have done wonders while they had been doing very little. 'How fast he is going! said Mary. 'Easy is the descent of Avernus. He is going down-hill, and we are going upwards.
Hammond discover the depth of her sympathy, the tenderness of her compassion for his woes. Later, as they were walking home across the hills, by Great Langdale and Little Langdale, and Fox Howe and Loughrigg Fell, she fell behind a few paces with Maulevrier, and said to him very earnestly 'You won't tell, will you, dear? 'Tell what? he asked, staring at her. 'Don't tell Mr.
'Sweet! it is good of you to say as much, but I would not take you at your word. You don't know what poverty is. 'Do you think I am a coward, or self-indulgent? You are wrong, Jack. May I call you Jack, as Maulevrier does? 'May you?
Nothing was said about prices; but Lesbia had a vague idea that some of the things would be rather expensive, and she ventured to ask Lady Kirkbank if she were not ordering too many gowns. 'My dear, Lady Maulevrier said you were to have carte blanche, replied Georgie, solemnly.
Rarely did Lady Maulevrier look at a bill of fare; but on this particular morning she went carefully through the menu, and corrected it with her own hand.
This trick lasted more than a year: his conversation was principally composed of reproaches but reproaches rarely succeed in love. Maulevrier, judging by the ill-humour of Madame de la Vrilliere, believed Nangis to be happy. Jealousy and rage transported him at last to the extremity of folly.
'Most of my friends are dead, said Lady Maulevrier, 'but there are a few survivors of the past who might help me. 'I don't think there'll be any difficulty or doubt about the peerage. Smithson stumped up very handsomely at the last General Election, and the Conservatives are not strong enough to be ungrateful. "These have, no master."
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