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Calyste ran with the lightness of a young fawn to Les Touches and reached the portico just as Camille and Beatrix were leaving the grand salon after their dinner. He had the sense to offer his arm to Felicite. "So you have abandoned your viscountess and her daughter for us," she said, pressing his arm; "we are able now to understand the full merit of that sacrifice."
Mention of it reached Riversley from various quarters, from Lady Maria Higginson, from Captain Bulsted and his wife, and from Sir Roderick Ilchester, who said to me, with fine accentuation, 'I have met your father. Sir Roderick, an Englishman reputed of good breeding, informed the son that he had actually met the father in lofty society, at Viscountess Sedley's, at Lady Dolchester's, at Bramham DeWitt's, and heard of him as a frequenter of the Prussian and Austrian Embassy entertainments; and also that he was admitted to the exclusive dinner-parties of the Countess de Strode, 'which are, he observed, in the moderated tone of an astonishment devoting itself to propagation, 'the cream of society. Indubitably, then, my father was an impostor: more Society proved it.
He had entertained a high regard for Sir David since making his acquaintance at Constantinople, and was glad to have the opportunity of showing it on this occasion. July 24th. Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore were honoured by a visit from Viscount and Viscountess Ponsonby.
After that Octave and his wife had a terrible scene together, and Modeste thinks that her mistress must have heard something, for the Count's voice rang through the house like thunder." Every word that the Viscountess uttered strengthened De Breulh's suspicions.
It is the wedding of my Lady Viscountess Dundee, but be not too sure that thou art the bridegroom. She that broke lightly the Covenant with her living heavenly bridegroom, will have little scruple in breaking the bond to a dead earthly bridegroom. Thy Jean hath found another husband."
His tone was such that an ordinary woman must have given way to him; but the viscountess had her reasons for being staunch. 'No, she said stoutly, 'not until these gentlemen have heard more. You have her fan, which she took out an hour ago. She went to meet you that we know from this person' she indicated Mr. Fishwick; 'and to meet you at your request.
"Poor lady! is she legally separated?" "No, by mutual consent," replied Camille. "Ah, well! I understand that," said the viscountess boldly. Old Mademoiselle de Pen-Hoel, furious at being thus dragged into the enemy's camp, had retreated to a short distance with her dear Charlotte.
"My dear child," said the duchess, who was chilled to the heart by this confidence, "friendship has given you for the moment the experience of a woman of my age. I know how Sabine loves her husband; you are right, she might become insane." "Or lose her beauty, which would be worse," said the viscountess. "Let us go to her!" cried the duchess.
The viscountess decides that "Love between those who have been married together, but who have since been divorced from one another, is not to be deemed reprehensible; nay, that it is to be considered as honourable."
"It is all perfectly clear," said Andre in jubilant tones; "M. de Croisenois had need of your aid, he saw that he could not easily obtain it, and so sought to bind you by the means of a loan made to you at a time of great need." "You are right," said De Breulh. The Viscountess' giddy mode of action had brought her into many scrapes, but never into so terrible a one as this.
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