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Mrs. Wix pave a laugh still stranger than the weird suggestion. "I dare say she'd take it!" They hurried on again; yet again, on the stairs, Maisie pulled up. "Well, if she had stopped in England !" she threw out. Mrs. Wix considered. "And he had come over instead?" "Yes, as we expected." Maisie launched her speculation. "What then would she have lived on?" Mrs. Wix hung fire but an instant.
Miss Overmore, to her surprise, looked distant and rather odd, hesitating and giving her time to turn again to Mrs. Wix. Then Maisie saw that lady's long face lengthen; it was stricken and almost scared, as if her young friend really expected more of her than she had to give.
"Then you must be mixed up with some extraordinary proceedings!" "None so extraordinary," cried Mrs. Wix, turning very pale, "as to say horrible things about the mother to the face of the helpless daughter!" "Things not a bit more horrible, I think," Miss Overmore returned, "than those you, madam, appear to have come here to say about the father!" Mrs.
Wix was that, in spite of her having had her "good" effect, as she called it the effect she studied, the effect of harmless vacancy her ladyship's last words had been that her ladyship's duty by her would be thoroughly done.
"Yes she has a right." "She's my mother!" Maisie tentatively tittered. "Yes she's your mother." "Besides," Maisie went on, "he didn't let her come. He doesn't like her coming, and if he doesn't like it " Mrs. Wix took her up. "He must lump it that's what he must do! Your mother was right about him I mean your real one. He has no strength. No none at all." She seemed more profoundly to muse.
Sir Claude at least, the child could see, was not mystified; so little indeed that a smile of intelligence broke afresh in his eyes. He turned them in vague discomfort to Maisie, and then something in the way she met them caused him to chuck her playfully under the chin. It was not till after this that he good-naturedly met Mrs. Wix. "You think me much worse than I am."
Wix let out that she deemed the worst of omens; yet it was just for the quieter communion they so got with him that, when after the coffee and rolls which made them more foreign than ever, it came to going forth for fresh drafts upon his credit they wandered again up the hill to the rampart instead of plunging into distraction with the crowd on the sands or into the sea with the semi-nude bathers.
She wanted not to faint, though it was not clear that syncope would make matters any the worse. But the longer he paused before knocking again, the better for Aunt M'riar. The knock came, a crescendo on the previous one. She had to respond some time. Make an effort and get it over! "That * young guttersnipe's given me a bad character," muttered Wix, as he heard the chain slipped into its sheath.
"But I thought you said you had squared her?" Sir Claude poked his stick at the splashboard of the cab. "Not, my dear child, to the point she now requires." "Then if she turns me out and I don't come here " Sir Claude promptly took her up. "What do I offer you, you naturally enquire? My poor chick, that's just what I ask myself. I don't see it, I confess, quite as straight as Mrs. Wix."
I love her and she's beautiful!" "And I'm hideous and you hate ME?" Mrs. Wix fixed her a moment, then caught herself up. "I won't embitter you by absolutely accusing you of that; though, as for my being hideous, it's hardly the first time I've been told so! I know it so well that even if I haven't whiskers have I? I dare say there are other ways in which the Countess is a Venus to me!
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