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Rooth was, however, in the drawing-room with three gentlemen, in two of whom the fourth visitor was not startled to recognise Basil Dashwood and Gabriel Nash. Dashwood appeared to have become Miriam's brother-in-arms and a second child a fonder one to Mrs.
Then she added: "If your brother's an artist I don't understand how he's in Parliament." "Oh he isn't in Parliament now we only hope he will be." "Ah I see." "And he isn't an artist either," Biddy felt herself conscientiously bound to state. "Then he isn't anything," said Miss Rooth. "Well he's immensely clever." "Ah I see," Miss Rooth again replied. "Mr. Nash has puffed him up so."
"But there are characters, there are situations, which I don't think I should like to see her undertake." "There are many, no doubt, which she would do well to leave alone!" laughed the Frenchwoman. "I shouldn't like to see her represent a very bad woman a really bad one," Mrs. Rooth serenely pursued. "Ah in England then, and in your theatre, every one's immaculately good?
Rooth listened to her daughter with an air of assumed reprobation which melted, before the girl had done, into a diverted, complacent smile the gratification of finding herself the proprietress of so much wit and irony and grace. Miriam's account of her mother's views was a scene of comedy, and there was instinctive art in the way she added touch to touch and made point upon point.
"You'll get everything now, I'm sure, shan't you?" Mrs. Rooth asked with an inflexion that called back to him comically the source of the sound was so different the very vibrations he had heard the day before from Lady Agnes. "He's going to glory and he'll forget all about us forget he has ever known such low people. So we shall never see him again, and it's better so.
Rooth sat on a black satin sofa with her daughter beside her while Gabriel Nash, wandering about the room, looked at the votive offerings which converted the little panelled box, decorated in sallow white and gold, into a theatrical museum: the presents, the portraits, the wreaths, the diadems, the letters, framed and glazed, the trophies and tributes and relics collected by Madame Carré during half a century of renown.
Your plays must be even more ingenious than I supposed!" "We haven't any plays," said Gabriel Nash. "People will write them for Miss Rooth it will be a new era," Sherringham threw in with wanton, or at least with combative, optimism. "Will you, sir will you do something? A sketch of one of our grand English ideals?" the old lady asked engagingly.
"Ah it's a pity; won't you take anything?" asked Mrs. Rooth. "When I heard your voice so high I was scared and hung back." But before he could reply she added: "Are you really thinking of the stage?" "It comes to the same thing." "Do you mean you've proposed?" "Oh unmistakably." "And what does she say?" "Why you heard: she says I'm an ass." "Ah the little wretch!" laughed Mrs. Rooth.
His demonstration and her conscious sufferance, almost equally liberal, so sustained themselves that the door of the room had time to open slowly before either had taken notice. Mrs. Rooth, who had not peeped in before, peeped in now, becoming in this manner witness of an incident she could scarce have counted on. The unexpected indeed had for Mrs.
"I couldn't have held out if I hadn't been so sure of Miriam," said Mrs. Rooth. "Well, you needn't hold out any longer." "Don't you trust her?" asked Sherringham's hostess. "Trust her?" "You don't trust yourself. That's why you were silent, why we might have thought you were dead, why we might have perished ourselves."
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