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Updated: June 14, 2025
De Windt's voice, as he stopped, was shaking; and he turned his red face away that Ivan might not notice what was happening to his eyes. Nevertheless Ivan had seen, and had been touched to the quick. His hand shot out, impetuously: and his voice was nearly as gruff as de Windt's as he began: "Old fellow, I am giving myself a chance.
I asked. "There's no time, and they don't expect it. Besides, our things are as good as theirs except Miss van der Windt's. She's very smart to make up for her plainness." "That's just the point," said Phil, struggling into a white, medallioned blouse that fastened as intricately as the working of a prize puzzle. "I've taken such a dislike to her, and she to us." "How do you know?"
And, as he sat listening to de Windt's calm prophecies of Nathalie's success, next winter, as a débutante, he cursed volubly, under his breath, to think how soon every wretched roué in the city would be free to pollute the spotless child with glances, with words, even, in dances, with a clasp of her waist!
I was so angry, that I "talked back"; and it finally ended in our relations being somewhat strained at dinner, which ruined my appetite, until a peculiarly soothing iced pudding came on. Afterwards, Mrs. Ess Kay was cool to Mr. Doremus, and would have been cold, I think, if he weren't Mrs. Van der Windt's cousin.
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