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Of Noel she seemed a little shy at first, until by frank good-fellowship he overcame this. Noel's courtship was apparently at a standstill. He made no open attempt to further his cause with her, though every day he sought her out with cheery friendliness, never overstepping the mark, never giving her the smallest occasion for embarrassment. And thus every day her confidence in him grew.
'Why did you write them then? he asked. Noel said he didn't know; he supposed because he wanted to. 'Well, would a guinea meet your views? he asked. He went red and he went white, and then he got crimson, as if you were rubbing more and more crimson lake on a palette. But he didn't say a word, so Oswald had to say 'I should jolly well think so. 'Buck up, old man!
And Karl bringing in a fresh panier of logs when the adorning was complete, and silly little delightful baubles sparkled and twinkled from every spray, putting down his burden, threw up his hands in amazement and declared the arbre de Noël "magnifique!" This alien Christmas-tree had an element all its own.
He lost her love by the delicacy of his dissimulation, that left her ignorant of the sacrifices he was making for her. Noel adored Juliette. Until the fatal day he saw her, he had lived like a sage. This, his first passion, burned him up; and, from the disaster, he saved only appearances. The four walls remained standing, but the interior of the edifice was destroyed.
This done, she once more addressed herself to Noel Vanstone, carefully lowering her voice, so as to render it inaudible to any one who might be listening in the passage outside. "I must beg your permission, sir," she began, "to return to the subject of your wife.
'My good children, if you're an infant Band of Hope, let me recommend you to play in some other backyard, said the Cock-Hatted Man. H. O. said, 'Band of Hope yourself' but no one noticed it. 'We're NOT a Band of Hope, said Noel. 'We're British, and the man over there told us you are.
'They might have been burglars, Noel said. He was sucking the last bit of his macaroni. 'You know the people next door are very grand. They won't know us and they go out in a real private carriage sometimes. And they have an "At Home" day, and people come in cabs. I daresay they have piles of plate and jewellery and rich brocades, and furs of price and things like that.
"Madame Gerdy!" repeated the old fellow with an air of astonishment; but he continued, "It is plain you have been seriously alarmed." "In truth," replied the advocate, seating himself, "I have experienced a rude shock." Noel was making visibly the greatest efforts to appear calm, to listen to the old fellow, and to answer him. Old Tabaret, as much disquieted on his side, perceived nothing.
Nothing can possibly knock them down I don't care what the sea does nothing can possibly knock them down." "Then, if the sea invades us," said Magdalen, "we must all run for refuge to you." Noel Vanstone saw his way to another compliment; and, at the same moment, the wary captain saw his way to another burst of science.
On the 19th of May the envoys embarked at Dieppe for England, and on the 25th were safely lodged with the resident minister of the republic, Noel de Caron, at the village of Clapham.
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