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"I have told you all my plans," said Lady Corisande. "Yes; but I was thinking of something else when you spoke," said Lothair. "That was not very complimentary." "I do not wish to be complimentary," said Lothair, "if compliments mean less than they declare. I was not thinking of your garden, but of you." "Where can they have all gone?" said Lady Corisande, looking round. "We must find them."
"And yet there is danger of it," said Lady Corisande, "more than danger," she added in a low but earnest voice. "You do not know what a conspiracy is going on, and has been going on for months, to effect this end. I tremble." "That is the last thing I ever do," said Theodora, with a faint, sweet smile. "I hope, but I never tremble."
"I fear it is that dreadful Monsignore Catesby," said Lady Corisande, with a sigh. The arrival of the guests was arranged with judgment. The personal friends came first; the formal visitors were invited only for the day before the public ceremonies commenced. No more dinners in small green dining-rooms. While the duchess was dressing, Bertha St.
"Heaven forbid!" exclaimed the mother, with unaffected alarm. "I know not how it is," said Lady Corisande, "but I frequently feel that some great woe is hanging over our country." "You must dismiss such thoughts, my child; they are fanciful." "But they will come, and when least expected frequently in church, but also in the sunshine; and when I am riding too, when, once, every thing seemed gay.
The duke and duchess and Lady Corisande came the first, and were one day alone with Lothair, for Mr. Putney Giles had departed to fetch Apollonia. Lothair was unaffectedly gratified at not only receiving his friends at his own castle, but under these circumstances of intimacy. They had been the first persons who had been kind to him, and he really loved the whole family.
He had reckoned that they would not be, and his reckoning was right. It was impossible to conceal from himself that it was a relief. Mr. Putney Giles dined alone with Lothair this evening, and they talked over many things; among others the approaching marriage of Lady Corisande with the Duke of Brecon. "Everybody marries except myself," said Lothair, rather peevishly.
They were all alike with their delicate aquiline noses, bright complexions, short upper lips, and eyes of sunny light. The beauty of Lady Corisande was even more distinguished and more regular, but whether it were the effect of her dark-brown hair and darker eyes, her countenance had not the lustre of the res, and its expression was grave and perhaps pensive.
"But, perhaps, if others set her the example," he added, after a pause; "Lady Corisande is first rate, and all her sisters sing; I will go and consult the duchess." There was soon a stir in the room. Lady St. Aldegonde and her sisters approached the piano, at which was seated the eminent professor. A note was heard, and there was silence.
Harkaman had the loss of the other Corisande on Durendal to remember, and the others wanted no part in Sword-World squabbles, and there was renewed agitation that he should start calling himself King of Tanith. He refused to do either, which left both parties dissatisfied. So partisan politics had finally come to Tanith. Maybe that was another milestone of progress.
Then, as they passed close together, guns hammered back and forth along with missiles, and then the Enterprise was out of sight around the horizon. Another ship, the size of Otto Harkaman's Corisande II, was approaching; she bore a tapering, red-nailed feminine hand dangling a planet by a string.
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