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"Oh, Véronique, I have not got a cold; I am only wildly happy," I said. "Mademoiselle is doubtless fiancée to Mr. Carruthers. Oh, mon enfant adorée," she cried, "que je suis contente!" "Gracious, no!" I exclaimed. This brought me back to Christopher with a start. What would he say when he heard? "No, Véronique, to some one much nicer Lord Robert Vavasour."
Even a wary old bird like me can make a mistake. Mrs. Vavasour has just warned my wife about her. It's no good arguing, Georgie, my boy. Nowadays you can't draw the line too rigidly. Things permissible in Paris or Nice won't pass muster here. I'm sorry, Georgie. She's a high stepper and devilish taking, I admit. Writes for some ha'penny rag er for some cheap society paper, I hear.
The question was written on every line of the sweet high- bred face, and Claire read its significance and flinched with distaste. "How they stare!" cried Mary Rhodes. "The man looked as if he knew you, Frank. Do you know who he is?" "He's a member of the Club. His name is Vavasour. We know each other by sight."
Bluebell's face brightened with anticipation; then she looked down, and demurred, "I don't know that I shall be able to go." "That's only a put off, I am sure; you came out last garrison sleigh-drive." "Yes, because Colonel Rolleston took me in his, but I mustn't expect to go every time; and you see there's Freddy; but I should like it awfully, Mr. Vavasour."
His eye was then drawn to another part of the hall; for Sir Hugh Vavasour had just come galloping up to the door in hot haste, having heard all manner of strange rumours: the first being that his daughter had been found, and was in hiding at Basildene; the second, which had only just reached his ears, that Peter Sanghurst was dead hanged by order of the Prince, and that Basildene had been formally granted as the perpetual right of Raymond de Brocas and his heirs.
"She brushed by me so suddenly, and looked so strange." "Nearly knocked me over," said the Colonel, who had caught the last words. "Don't notice it; I am afraid Bluebell has lost her heart to young Vavasour; and she is miserable at going home, because she thinks she will not see him."
Does Dickens show us a realistic Armenian teaching in the thieves' kitchens of the slums? When we meet Mr. Vernon Vavasour, that brilliant financier, do we speculate on the probability of his really having an Armenian name to match his Armenian nose?
Vavasour to his care, then that is, for the present," said Elsley, drawing his arm from Lucia's. "I assure you," answered she, roused in her turn by his determined bad temper, "I am not the least afraid of being left in the charge of so old a friend." Elsley made no answer, but sprang down through the thickets, calling loudly to Claude Mellot.
I believe I shall end by getting hanged or shot in somebody else's place, with this confounded spirit of meddling. Yah! how cold the water is!" For in he went, the grumbling honest dog; stepped across to the black lump; and lifted it up hastily enough, for it was Elsley Vavasour. Drowned? No. But wet through, and senseless from mingled cold and laudanum.
The child, when young, had been singularly handsome and intelligent; and Vavasour, as he toiled and toiled at his ingenious and graceful cheateries, pleased himself with anticipating the importance and advantages the heir to his labours would enjoy.
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