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Everyone in our house, which was now filled to overflowing in fact, there were Polydores on sofas and in beds on the floor save Silvia and myself, was on the alert for a response to the letter during the succeeding few days. Knowing Uncle Issachar, we felt sure he would make no response, or notice the matter in any way save to cash the check promptly.
I was delighted to have seen the famous captain who had conquered Bergen-op-Zoom, but I regretted that such a man should be compelled to give an answer about a fricassee of chickens in the serious tone of a judge pronouncing a sentence of death. I made good use of this anecdote at the excellent dinner Silvia gave to the elite of polite and agreeable society.
"Welcome him then according to his worth," said the duke: "Silvia, I speak to you, and you, sir Thurio; for Valentine, I need not bid him do so." They were here interrupted by the entrance of Protheus, and Valentine introduced him to Silvia, saying, "Sweet lady, entertain him to be my fellow-servant to your ladyship."
He and Pepina had no time, now that the vintage had begun, to attend to such affairs, even if they knew how. Silvia grew pale. She had not expected to go before the spring, and now all was arranged without a word being said to her, and she was to go without saying good-bye to any one. Matteo's sharp eyes were watching her.
Then, with her brush waving above her, she came gambolling back to him so playfully that he stroked her indulgently, though he was first vexed, and then rather puzzled that his wife should amuse herself with such pranks. But when they got within doors he picked her up in his arms, kissed her and spoke to her. "Silvia, what a light-hearted childish creature you are.
When she went to that lady with the ring, she was most glad to find that Silvia utterly rejected the suit of Proteus; and Julia, or the page Sebastian as she was called, entered into conversation with Silvia about Proteus' first love, the forsaken Lady Julia.
"He would have been if he'd stayed any longer, or else I would have been," declared Huldah. "Couldn't you make them behave, someway?" asked Silvia.
I heard later that people thought I had shown "such good taste" in not marrying him. So we jogged on for five years longer. Perhaps they were the best years, for I had given up hoping. Then he died. After his death this is curious there came to me a kind of mirage of love. All the books and articles written about him, all the reviews of the "Life," were full of discreet allusions to Silvia.
Silvia gave an impatient ejaculation. "How can you take it so quietly, Miss Renner?" she asked. "I confess it always stirs me up." "It wouldn't if you had the ballot," said the smaller woman. "It's just amusing, or tiresome, according to how well it is done.
As she lighted it, I saw that her hand was trembling. "Silvia, dear, surely you don't think " "Must you go?" "It was a poor joke of mine, I know; but " "It was. I don't think a count or a baron would have said such a rotten thing." Her eyes flashed and she was trembling all over. From being pretty, she had become beautiful. "Perhaps not," said I steadily.
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