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He gazed at her loveliness with that insulting look of sensual admiration which some men think the highest compliment they can pay to a woman. And just in the middle of all this, Hector Bracondale arrived upon the scene. He had been searching for her everywhere; in that crowd one could miss any one with ease.
I will respect your desire never to inform your wife of her mistake, and I will not trouble either of you again. Only, by a later post, I intend to answer her letter and say farewell. "Believe me, "Yours truly, "BRACONDALE." This he had despatched some hours ago, but his last good-bye to Theodora was not yet written. What could he say to her?
When they had all gone on Mrs. Ellerwood said: "I wonder why Americans are so much smarter than we poor English? I can't bear them as a nation though, can you?" "Yes," said Lord Bracondale. "I think the best friends I have in the world are American. The women particularly are perfectly charming.
And she looked out of the window, and her eyes were sad. While the vision which floated to him at the same moment was of her at his side at Bracondale, and the delicious joy of possessing for their own some gay and merry babies like Fordy and his little brother and sister. And each saw a wistful longing in the other's eyes, and they talked quickly of banal things.
"And I wonder what it will look like in her marble palace halls," he thought, as he passed from one article to another. "I am just too sorry to keep you, mon cher Bracondale," Mrs. McBride said, presently, suddenly opening the adjoining door a few inches, "but it is a quite exasperating hat which has delayed me. I can't get the thing on at the angle I want.
"Certainly hearts are a great bore." "You were always a cynic, Hector; that is perhaps what makes you so attractive." "Am I attractive?" "I can't judge," said Mrs. Ellerwood, nettled for a moment. "I have known you too long, but I hear other women saying so." "That is comforting, at all events," said Lord Bracondale. "I always have adored women." "No, you never have, that is just it.
Beloved one, I am always thinking of you, and I want to tell you my vision of heaven would be to possess you for my wife. My happiest dream will always be that you are there at Bracondale queen of my home and my heart, darling. My darling!
And her letter, he said, should never leave him her two letters; they should be dearer to him than his life. He prayed her to take care of herself, and if at any time she should want him to send for him from the ends of the earth. Bracondale would always find him, sooner or later, and he was hers to order as she willed.
Every one knows the Opera-House, and where he would be standing, and the impossibility of saying anything but the most banal commonplaces, looking up like that. Then Josiah leaned forward, proud of his acquaintanceship with a peer, and said in a distinct voice: "Won't you come into the box, Lord Bracondale? There is plenty of room."
A tonged, laced, flounced best; and she was perfectly conscious of it, and pleased with herself and her attractions. She meant to keep Lord Bracondale with her for the rest of the evening if possible, even if she had to descend to tricks scarcely flattering to her own vanity. "Do let us go for a walk," she said.
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