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"But but, if you cannot afford Europe for yourself, how can you afford it for me?" "It would take a great many thousands for me to go in the manner that is expected of me. I cannot afford that. For you, Olivetta, since the passage is already paid, it would take but a few hundred and that I can afford." "You you mean that I am to pass for you?" "Yes." "But I never can!
De Peyster of the portrait, and oh, what a change was there in the one beneath! huddled, shaking, not a duchess-like line to her person, her face dropped forward in her hands. "Mother " Jack breathed at length. "Caroline!" breathed Judge Harvey. Then added: "I'm sure it it'll never become known." "Oh, to think it's all over and we're out of it!" Olivetta cried hysterically. "Oh! Oh!"
Jack and that Mary person were now in sweet and undisturbed possession of her house; Olivetta, on board the Plutonia, was this minute reposing at ease amid the luxuries of her cabin de luxe; and she, herself, Mrs.
De Peyster started on this trip, you become yourself, and you see Europe just as you please." "Oh!" ejaculated Olivetta, drawing in a deep breath. "But please, ma'am," put in Matilda, "why could you not go over yourself and then slip away to some modest resort?" "So many people know me I should be sure to be seen and recognized. And then think of the talk! No, that would never do.
"But, Caroline," pursued the sympathetic Olivetta, "can't you cut down expenses and remain in town? What with your credit, you have enough for that!" "Remain in town, when everybody is leaving?" cried Mrs. De Peyster. "Are you out of your senses Olivetta? Why, people would never stop talking about it!" "Of course you're right forgive me," stammered Olivetta.
"I think I shall take a turn about the house to see that everything is being properly closed. Would you like to come with me?" Olivetta would; and, talking, they went together down the stairs. As they neared the ground floor, Matilda's voice arose to them, expostulating, protesting. "What can that be about?" wondered Mrs.
"Stay here!" ejaculated Olivetta. "Stay here!" exclaimed Matilda. "Stay here. Chiefly in my suite. Secretly, of course. No one but you two will ever know of it. By staying here, I shall be practically at no expense. But the world will think I am in Europe, and my position will be saved." Staggered as she was, Olivetta had remaining a few fragments of reason. "But but, Caroline!
But the explanation?" "Immediately word for word, as Mrs. De Peyster has just now told us," said he. "Oh!" moaned Mrs. De Peyster. Olivetta and Matilda gazed at Mr.
There was rather an odd quality in Jack's tone. "Won't have to? What do you mean?" "You've questioned me a lot, mother. I'd like to put a few leading questions to you. And u'm alone. Olivetta," he remarked pleasantly, "do you know that Sherlock Holmes found it an instructive and valuable occupation to count the stair-steps in a house? Suppose you run out for five minutes and count 'em.
"I do not need to inform you that I have been away." "Of course, we know you've been away!" said Jack. "But that Mrs. De Peyster at the pier who is she?" "She's nothing but a base impostor!" cried Olivetta indignantly, lifting her face for a moment from her woe-soaked handkerchief. "Don't you believe a word she says!" "But we're all ready for the ceremony!" exclaimed Jack.
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