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"Father, don't you think Maizie had better have lemon ice cream soda?" she asked. "Anything she wants; anything she wants," Mr. Procter answered and not lowering his voice, even in Miss Smithson's presence: "What do you think you'll have, Suzanna?" "I'll have a lemon ice cream soda," said Suzanna primly.
That name is a reminiscence of Mr. Smithson's South American travels. 'No doubt! Was he long in South America? 'Three or four years. 'But not in Cuba all that time, I suppose? 'He had business relations with Cuba all that time, and oscillated between our island and the main. He was rather fortunate in his little adventures with us made almost as much money as General Tacon, of blessed memory.
Breakfast was served in Mr. Smithson's smallest dining-room there were three apartments given up to feasting, beginning with a spacious banqueting-room for great dinners, and dwindling down to this snuggery, which held about a dozen comfortably, with ample room and verge enough for the attendants.
'A vile fabrication of Montesma's, who wanted to blacken poor Smithson's character in order to extenuate his own crimes. 'Well, we won't go into that question, said Maulevrier wearily. 'The Smithson match is off, anyhow; and it matters very little to us whether he made most money out of niggers or bubble companies, or lotteries or gaming hells.
Thus, caring only for those things which wealth can buy, she had made up her mind that she could not do without Horace Smithson's money; and she must therefore needs resign herself to the disagreeable necessity of taking Smithson and his money together. The great auctioneer Fate would not divide the lot. She told herself that for her a loveless marriage was, after all, no prodigious sacrifice.
She was curious to behold the extent and magnitude of Mr. Smithson's possessions.
Smithson's offer, and that she hoped her grandmother would be pleased with a match which everybody supposed to be extremely advantageous. She was going to Grasmere immediately after the Cowes week to see her dear grandmother, and to be assured of her approval.
Smithson's city operations had been on a very extensive scale: It was in the rise and fall of commodities rather than of stocks and shares that Horace Smithson had made his money. He had exercised occult influences upon the trade of the great city, of the world itself, whereof that city is in a manner the keystone. Iron had risen or fallen at his beck.
It was past two o'clock, and the ballroom was thinly occupied, when Mr. Smithson's party went there. 'You won't dance to-night, I suppose? said Smithson, as Lesbia and he went slowly down the room arm in arm. It was in a pause between two waltzes. The wide window at the end was opened to the summer night, and the room was delightfully cool. 'You must be horribly tired?
The explanations of "Lelio" so unmistakably pointed to the feeling of the composer for herself, that Miss Smithson, who by chance was present, could not be deceived, though she never yet had seen Berlioz. A few days afterward a benefit concert was arranged, in which Miss Smithson's troupe was to take part, as well as Berlioz, who was to direct a symphony of his own composition.
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