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It is unwise, or wrong, or heavenly, or mad, but silly, non. And he is very attractive, mon homme." This tribute she added reluctantly, as if from a sense of fairness. "And many have loved him." Suddenly Brigit's anger flamed up. "And I am so insignificant that you are not afraid of me," she cried. "What if he had not got over it? What if he loved me as much more than I love him?"
He had never been able to forgive the duel at Loadilla which had occasioned so much scandal in Madrid, and brought Brigit's name into bad company. Robert, before his meeting with Mrs. Parflete, had fought several duels, and each of them about a different pretty face.
"'Ere y'are, miss," he murmured soothingly down the trap. "Shall I wait?" The house was an old one with a broad, low front door and shallow, much-worn oak stairs. In answer to Brigit's knock a Gamp-like person with a hare-lip appeared, and informing her curtly that Mr.
Brigit's temper was very violent, but she had seen in his set face signs of one much worse than her own, and, with the strange unexpectedness that seemed to characterise the man, his last move was as fully that of a gentleman as his trick with the Wedding March had been shocking. He was her host, and he had left her rather than forget that fact.
"I never could get him to take the least interest in anything else, and as he always worked as little as possible for me, I could not understand his looking so tired, until, finding that he had heard the stable clock strike four, and knowing that one cannot hear the clock from his room, I pinned him down and he told me." Brigit's eyes filled with tears.
It is curious, but strictly according to the laws of the feminine logic, that as he made this speech, haltingly, painfully, but with resolution in every word of it, Brigit's mind should slowly change to a feeling of resentment.
Also, I had disappointed Colonel Corkran. Three letters for me, brought out by the pilot! One I had expected from Anthony; but my heart gave a bound as I recognized Brigit's handwriting, not seen for years; and instinct told me that the third was from Monny Gilder.
Brigit's appetite had fled, and she was most uneasy as she watched him, for she did not dare risk an explosion by putting the smallest question to him. Something was very wrong, and she was alarmed. Suddenly, as a clock struck half-past six, he rose. "Au revoir, my children," he said, "I must get back home. Théo will call for you at ten minutes to ten, Brigitte, my my daughter!"
He looked at her compassionately as he spoke, wondering, no doubt, how great the evil had been. "Can I go to him?" asked Brigit; "where is he?" "Where he died in his room at the hotel." "I will go with you," said Pensée. She held Brigit's hand, and exchanged a long glance with Father Foster. "Did you say," she asked, "that he left any letters or papers?"
It was not in him to consider even as an egoistic reflection to be put aside how far Brigit's project, carried into action, could effect his own political career. His apprehensions were all for her and her own content. "Promise me," he said, "that you will always tell me when the acting mood comes over you.
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