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As it turned out, he was right, for his first impression of the young English girl was not altogether agreeable; and he found himself obliged to stay and talk to her until an ancient lady, who had come to gossip with Miss Schenectady, and was fully carrying out her intentions, should go away and make it possible for him to take his leave without absolutely abandoning Miss Thorn in the corner of the room she had selected for the tete-a- tete.
As Charley seldom made his appearance at the breakfast table on Sunday mornings, Alaric foresaw that he must undergo a tete-a- tete which would not be agreeable to himself, and which must be much more disagreeable to his companion; but for this there was no help.
Did she approve of these visits made thus in the perfect seclusion of that old church at the hours when its doors were shut to the public? Did she like the hours so spent in tete-a- tete conversation with the handsome young Marchese?
But Harold did not answer, and that was the last chance of a tete-a- tete conversation that evening, for presently she was carried off to her own room, and helped into bed, where she lay awake for a long, long time, staring before her in the twilight, and recalling the lessons of consolation to which she had just listened.
These uniform days were the same in all places, and even during the journeys taken by their Majesties, who were thus never separated, except for a few minutes at a time. They passed their lives in one long tete-a- tete. When they travelled it was at the merest snail's pace, and they slept on the road, night after night, in houses prepared for them.
She always had a certain embarrassment in tete-a- tetes with Cecil, and it took form in a flow of words. "Poor Terry! he turned faint and giddy at breakfast.
One evening when I happened to be dining at the house, the absence of her father and the indisposition of her mother left us tete-a- tete in the smoking-room, whither she came to keep me company with my cigar.
I left without taking out the lamp; they began talking again, and Meneval and I awaited the end of the tete-a- tete, until five o'clock in the morning.
Delafield, it is seldom that I have an opportunity of hearing soft things, for I am never alone with a gentleman in my father's house" "And is Mrs. Osgood so rigid?" returned the gentleman; "surely the gravity of her daughter should create more confidence" Osgood that prevents any solos in her mansion, unless it be on a harp or flute, or any possibility of a tete-a- tete."
What do you say to another rubber?" "You should have spoken before we rose," replied the lady. "There'll be others who wish to go. You'll be able to take over some one's hand. I prefer to remain in here for a tete-a tete with Mr. Blake." Blake and Mr. Leslie stared at her, alike surprised. The younger man muttered in far other than a cordial tone: "Thanks. But I'm not fit company.
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