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Another man stood up in the launch and talked to them where they were on the landing platform, and pointed down the river as we approached; but evidently he did not point at us. I looked hastily to see what he was indicating to them, but I could see nothing save the solitary river winding away between the empty woods and marshes. So this was Hortense Rieppe!
My accidental words proved as miraculous as the staff which once smote the rock. It was a stream, indeed, which now broke forth from her stony discretion. She began easily. "It is evident that you have not seen Miss Rieppe by the manner in which you allude to her although of course, in comparison with my age, she is a young girl." I think that this caused me to open my mouth.
Juno, with a bow to them, approached Hortense by a step or two, a brief touch of their fingers was to be seen, and Juno's departure took place, attended by the heavy hovering of General Rieppe. "That's why!" I said to myself aloud, suddenly, at my open window. Immediately, however, I added, "but can it be?"
Our blooming old republic is merely the quickest process of endless replacing yet discovered, and you take my tip, and back the replacers! That's where Miss Rieppe, for all her Kings Port traditions, shows sense." I turned square on him. "Then she has broken it?" "Broken what?" "Her engagement to John Mayrant. You mean to say that you didn't ?" "See here, old man. Seriously. The fire-eater?"
She tried our new toboggan fire-escape on a bet. Clean from the attic, my boy. I imagine our native girls will rejoice at her departure. However, nobody's engaged to her, at least nobody here. How many may fancy themselves so elsewhere I can't say. Her name is Hortense Rieppe." I suppose I must have been silent after finishing this letter. "No bad news, I trust?" John Mayrant inquired.
'What can you expect? said Miss Beaufain; 'we're descended from the English. I am very sorry for Maria for Mrs. St. Michael just at present. Her young cousin, John Mayrant, is making an alliance deeply vexatious to her. Do you happen to know Miss Hortense Rieppe?" I had never heard of her. "No? She has been North lately. I thought you might have met her.
A few steps from our front door I came upon John Mayrant, and saw at once too plainly that no ease had come to his spirit during the hours since the bridge. He was just emerging from an adjacent house. "And have you resigned?" I asked him. "Yes. That's done. You haven't seen Miss Rieppe this morning?" "Why, she's surely not boarding with Mrs. Trevise?" "No; stopping here with her old friend, Mrs.
When, after some utterly unprofitable conversation, I managed to say in a casual voice, which I thought very well tuned for the purpose, "What part of Georgia did you say that General Rieppe came from?" the severe lady responded: "I do not think that I mentioned him at all." "Georgia?" said Mrs. Gregory St. Michael. "I never heard that they came from Georgia." And this revived my hopes.
Evidently the high mettle of his delicacy and breeding made him painfully conscious of the view which others must take of the part that Miss Rieppe was playing in all this a view from which it was out of his power to shield her; and it was this consciousness that destroyed his composure.
When I looked over my shoulder at the Hermana, she seemed an incredible distance off, and when I looked again, she had grown so very little nearer that I abandoned this fruitless proceeding. Charley's boat had gone ahead to announce the good news to General Rieppe as soon as possible. But if our return was long to me, to Hortense it was not so.
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