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She caught herself wondering how Temple, with the serious face and the honest eyes, would regard the lies, the trickeries, the whole tissue of deceit that had won her her chance of following her own art, of living her own life. Vernon understood, presently, that not even that evening at Thirion's could give the key to this uncomforting change. He had not seen Lady St.
Betty, for her part, refused to recognise a little pain that gnawed at her heart and stole all taste from the best dishes of Thirion's. She talked as much as possible to Temple, because it was the proper thing to do, she told herself, and she talked very badly. Lady St.
The emotion of the interview was too recent. Her heart was beating still with anger, and resentment, and other feelings less easily named. Vernon was to come to fetch her at seven. She would not face him. Let him go and dine with the woman he belonged to! Betty went out at half-past six. She would not go to Garnier's, nor to Thirion's. That was where he would look for her.
But, all the same, next evening when Vernon called to take her to dinner, she said: "Couldn't we go somewhere else? I'm tired of Garnier's." Vernon was tired of Garnier's, too. "Do you know Thirion's?" he said. "Thirion's in the Boulevard St.
He raised his hat in response to her frigid bow, and had almost passed her, when she spoke on an impulse that surprised herself. "Oh Mr. Temple!" He stopped and turned. "I was looking for a place to dine. I'm tired of Garnier's and Thirion's." He hesitated. And he, too, remembered the night at the Cafe d'Harcourt, when she had disdained his advice and gone back to take the advice of Paula.
Oh! if only the lawyer's wife could have understood this gift in dukes, she could never have endured that politely ironical look; she saw the politeness only. Ignorance shares the privileges of fine breeding. "This is Madame Camusot, a daughter of Thirion's one of the Cabinet ushers," said the Duchess to her husband.
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