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She took in for an instant the slight bewilderment against which, as a result of her speech, even so expert an intelligence as Mr. Mitchett's had not been proof; then with a small jerk of her head at the other side of the room made the quickest of transitions. "What IS there between her and him?" Mitchy wondered at the other two. "Between Edward and the girl?" "Don't talk nonsense.
What I spoke of to poor Mitchy," she went on to the Duchess, "is the dreadful view you take of my letting Nanda go to Tishy and indeed of the general question of any acquaintance between young unmarried and young married females. Mr. Mitchett's sufficiently interested in us, Jane, to make it natural of me to take him into our confidence in one of our difficulties.
Brookenham "since he wholly lives on him." "Lord Petherton on Mr. Mitchett?" The Duchess stared, but rather in amusement than in horror. "Why, hasn't he a property?" "The loveliest. Mr. Mitchett's his property. Didn't you KNOW?" There was an artless wail in Mrs. Brookenham's surprise.
Mitchett's wealth." "Oh there's plenty for every one!" Mrs. Brookenham kept up her tone. "He's always giving us things bonbons and dinners and opera-boxes." "He has never given ME any," the Duchess contentedly declared. Mrs. Brookenham waited a little. "Lord Petherton has the giving of some. He has never in his life before, I imagine, made so many presents."
Mitchett's the most princely host." "Isn't he too kind for anything? Do you know what he pretends?" Nanda went on. "He says in the most extraordinary way that he does it all for ME." "Takes this great place and fills it with servants and company ?" "Yes, just so that I may come down for a Sunday or two.
"The man will want to do the right thing, 'I'm sure." The girl shook her head, and spoke for the first time. "I don't know his name." Mrs. Mitchett's face twitched. "Oh, dear!" she said: "Think of that! She's never said as much to us." "Not know his name?" Pierson murmured. "But how how could you " he stopped, but his face had darkened.
Mitchett's marriage has inevitably pleased least may be now rather to be feared." These words had the sound of a climax, and she had brought them out as if, with her duty done, to leave them; but something that took place, for her eye, in the face Mr. Longdon had half-averted gave her after an instant what he might have called her second wind. "Oh I know you think she always HAS been!
Mitchett's either beautiful or noble, and he certainly hasn't as much distinction as would cover the point of a pin. He doesn't mind moreover what he says the lengths he sometimes goes to! but that," added the Duchess with decision, "is no doubt much a matter of how he finds you'll take it. And after marriage what does it signify?
But were they then simply to have tea there together? No; the candidate for Mr. Mitchett's acquaintance, as if quickly guessing his apprehension, mentioned on the spot that their entertainer would be with them: he had just come home in a hurry, fearing he was late, and then had rushed off to make a change.
Longdon had spoken with a curtness to which his friend's particular manner of overlooking it only added significance. "They've become," she pursued, "superficial or insincere or frivolous, but at least they've become, with the way the drag's put on, quite as dull as other people." He showed no sign of taking this up; instead of it he said abruptly: "But if it isn't Mr. Mitchett's own idea?"
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