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Mencke looked a trifle sheepish at this spirited speech. He could not forget, if his wife did, that some fourteen years previous he had been as badly off, if not worse, than this young carpenter.
Mencke colored vividly at this reply, and began to make excuses for her own presence there; but Lady Cameron, with a disapproving glance over her elegant and showy costume, only bowed with reserved courtesy in reply, and then, as Lord Cameron accosted an acquaintance who was approached, she excused herself and turned to greet her friend, leaving Mrs.
"Belle, what do you mean?" she cried, a flood of angry crimson surging to her brow. "I mean that if you will not go with me, you shall stay where you are until I return," Mrs. Mencke sharply answered, and then she swept down the stairs with a smile of triumph on her face, for she congratulated herself that she had done a very clever thing.
Just think, Violet, what it means to step into such a position! I am proud of your conquest." Violet suddenly grew cold and pale as snow. "Belle, you know it can never be," she began, with white lips, when Mrs. Mencke interrupted her angrily. "It can be it must be it shall be; for I have given my unqualified consent to his lordship's proposal," she cried, actually trembling from excitement.
"Don't be cross with me, Belle," Violet pleaded, with a quivering lip, "for I really cannot remember. Lord Cameron was so kind, so generous, and I began to say something to him I don't know what when I felt queer and knew nothing more until I awoke and found you here." Mrs. Mencke saw her advantage in all this, and did not fail to make the most of it.
"But never mind me go back to your dancing; I can take care of myself and would rather not be disturbed by any one again to-night." "I will come up again in half an hour," Mrs. Mencke returned, not satisfied to leave her thus for the night. "No, do not, Belle, please I prefer that you should not," pleaded her sister. "Will you be sure to take your drops?
Mencke came in and found her in tears, and was secretly very much annoyed, besides being a trifle conscience-smitten over the strategy which she had employed to bring about this longed-for marriage. But she exerted herself to amuse her troublesome invalid, while she told herself that she should consider it a lucky day when she got her off her hands altogether.
"I am sorry," she returned, "for we have decided to shut up the house during our absence, and I could not think of leaving you behind." "Nevertheless, Belle, I shall not go with you to Montreal," Violet answered, steadily. "Who said anything about Montreal?" quickly demanded Mrs. Mencke, and regarding her sharply.
"I am afraid that I have overtaxed her strength," Lord Cameron said, in a tone of self-reproach, as he lifted a rueful face to her. "Have you won?" she asked, eagerly. "I think so, but " Mrs. Mencke waited for nothing more.
Mencke remarked, cheerfully, but regarding her searchingly. Violet gave utterance to a deep sigh, but hesitated before replying. "It is very comfortable here," she at last said, glancing around the luxurious apartment. "I should think so, indeed, after the close quarters you have inhabited of late," said Mrs. Mencke, with a contemptuous laugh.
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