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Maxine rose to meet him. She read both good and bad news in his face. "The operation has been successful, but there is great weakness." He rolled an armchair for her to sit down, and then he told her as much as she could understand. Thénard had found a slight depression of the inner table of the skull, and some congestion and thickening of the dura mater. It all dated from the accident.
Max had no physical fear, but he backed involuntarily before the menace in Blake's eyes. "I'm not lying to you, Ned. I cannot tell you, because I do not know. My sister Maxine has ceased to exist for me, as much as for you." "Stop!" Blake stepped close to him and for an instant his hand was raised, but it fell at once to his side, and he laughed once more, harshly and self-consciously.
"If I were different if M. Blake were different, I grant that, perhaps " She stopped abruptly. "Jacqueline, what are your thoughts?" "Oh, madame, I have none!" And here Maxine made a change of front, became very grave, touched the gracious, encouraging note of the being to whom life is an open book. "You must not say that," she corrected, sweetly.
"Sacré bleu!" muttered the Frenchman, under his breath, for whatever he had expected, he had not expected that. But Maxine spoke not a word.
When the child was born Milly Pardee wanted to name her Myrtle but her husband had said, suddenly, "No, call her Maxine." "After whom?" In Mrs. Pardee's code you named a child "after" someone. He had seen Maxine Elliott in the heyday of her cold, clear, brainless beauty, with her great, slightly protuberant eyes set so far apart, her exquisitely chiselled white nose, and her black black hair.
But I don't in the least know what you mean." "The loss of it is known," he said. "Ah, it's a lost document?" "As you will be lost, Maxine, if you don't come to me for the help I'm only too glad to give on conditions. Let me tell you what they are." "Wouldn't it be more to the point if you told me what the document is, and how it concerns me?" I parried him, determined to bring him to bay.
I dared not strike a match because of the sharp, rasping noise it would make, and I had to be as cautious as if I were treading with bare feet on glass, although I knew that Maxine was praying for me to be out of the house, and I was as far from wishing to linger as she was to have me stay.
"What if a voice in the auditorium should suddenly shout that Maxine de Renzie had betrayed France for money, English money?" How these hands which applauded would tingle to seize me by the throat and choke my life out. Still, with these thoughts murmuring in my head like a kind of dreadful undertone, I went on. An actress can always go on till she breaks.
"Why, I could build a house. A house, up on Edgecombe. A house like the Barstows' with lawns, and gardens, and sleeping porches, and linen closets!... Oh, Maxine! We'll live there " "Not I," said Maxine, crisply. Arnold, watching her, knew what she was going to say before she said it. "I'm going to see the world. Sudden wealth had given Arnold a new masterfulness. "Marry me before you go."
The gate's shut behind him." "Let us go now," I begged. "No, no, not yet!" cried Lisa. "I must know what happens next. We are in the midst of it, indeed." I hardly cared what she did, now. Ivor had come to see Maxine de Renzie, and nothing else mattered very much. I had no strength to insist that we should go. "I wonder what the man in the shadow would do if he saw us?" Lisa said.
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