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Things came one's way or they didn't; and meanwhile one could only look on, and make the most of small compensations, such as watching "the show" at Mrs. Murrett's, and talking over the Lady Ulricas and other footlight figures. And at any moment, of course, a turn of the kaleidoscope might suddenly toss a bright spangle into the grey pattern of one's days.
So pleasant a vision as that gleaming up at him between wet brown hair and wet brown boa should have evoked only associations as pleasing; but each effort to fit her image into his past resulted in the same memories of boredom and a vague discomfort... "Don't you remember me now at Mrs. Murrett's?"
Darrow made no comment, and she continued: "And Mrs. Murrett's own opinion if she'd offered you one probably wouldn't have been of much value?" "Only in so far as her disapproval would, on general principles, have been a good mark for Miss Viner. But surely," he went on after a pause, "you could have found out about her from the people through whom you first heard of her?" Anna smiled.
Farlow seemed to think that I should find her here." "It was all so sudden that I don't suppose she had time to let the Farlows know. She didn't get Mrs. Murrett's wire till yesterday, and she just pitched her things into a trunk and rushed " "Mrs. Murrett?" "Why, yes. Sophy's gone to India with Mrs. Murrett; they're to meet at Brindisi," Sophy's sister said with a calm smile.
Murrett's niece," he declared. She shook her head. "No; not even that. Only her reader." "Her reader? Do you mean to say she ever reads?" Miss Viner enjoyed his wonder. "Dear, no! But I wrote notes, and made up the visiting-book, and walked the dogs, and saw bores for her." Darrow groaned. "That must have been rather bad!" "Yes; but nothing like as bad as being her niece."
The story she had imparted to him in the wheezing shaking cabin, and at the Calais buffet where he had insisted on offering her the dinner she had missed at Mrs. Murrett's had given a distincter outline to her figure.
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