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Except that she was a maturer person thirty-one and not twenty-two I might have mistaken her for Viola Thesiger, my secretary, setting out, in defiance of all conventions, with little Jevons, to look for Belfries in Belgium, and taking the war, since there was a war on, in her stride.
The little party that had so gayly assembled in the old library broke up in the deepest gloom. Sir John was the only one who seemed at all incredulous. "Rely upon it," he said, "that, after all, it is some trick of the French woman." But Lady Thesiger had no such hope. "I felt sure there was something wrong with Miles," she said. "He was not happy. He had married in haste and repented at leisure."
Viola couldn't attend to him properly; and if the stranger happened to be rather stupid, like Charlie Thesiger, Jevons didn't blaze and so cover himself; he got bored; and when he was bored he got jumpy; and it was when he got jumpy that he did things. And Charlie was getting on his nerves.
"Clare," I asked, half shyly, "how do you like Miss Thesiger?" A look bright as a sunbeam came over my sister's face. "Ah! hers is a beautiful nature sweet, frank, candid, transparent no two lives there, Edgar. Her face is as pure as a lily, and her soul is the same. No need to turn from me, dear; I read your secret when she came in.
"I wonder if others have noticed it," she said, cheerfully. "No," replied Monsieur Pettigrat. "No others. Only I." "There! That's just like Sylvia," cried Mrs. Thesiger, in exasperation. "She has a fated look and makes nothing of it." But the secret of her discontent was just a woman's jealousy of a younger rival. Men were beginning to turn from her toward her daughter.
The brave Danes are the brothers, and should never be the enemies, of the English. He sealed this in an unusually formal manner, saying, that 'it was no time to appear hurried. Captain Sir Frederick Thesiger carried this letter ashore, with a flag of truce, and delivered it to the crown-prince, at the Sally Port.
Then Agatha looked at me, and the glance of those eyes was so sweet I almost lost myself. "The Cherokee Indians, or whatever they are called, will be much obliged to you," she said. "I cannot call working for them 'Utopian delight; my fingers ache with this stiff cardboard." "You willfully misunderstand me, Miss Thesiger; the delight consists in being with you, not in working for the Cherokees.
Cockburn, I said, was sitting next to Thesiger during a trial before Campbell, Chief Justice, in which the Judge read some French documents, and, being a Scotsman, it attracted a good deal of attention. Cockburn, who was a good French scholar, was much annoyed at the Chief Justice's pronunciation of the French language. "He is murdering it," said he "murdering it!"
It was getting a bit stuffy for her down here. Then he fixed me with "Did Thesiger go up with her?" There was no good trying to lie to Jevons, so I said that had been Thesiger's idea, but Viola hadn't cared much about having him, for she had got out at Fittleworth and taken Norah on with her. "I suppose the young ass tried to make love to her. He's fool enough for anything," said Jimmy.
Thesiger sat with a little vindictive smile upon her face. Her rival was going to be punished. Mrs. Thesiger had left her husband, not he her. She read through the letter which she had received from him this evening. It was a pressing request for money. She was not going to send him money. She wondered how he would appreciate the present of a daughter instead.
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