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She was a girl absolutely bereft of romance, and Willibald knew she would make no sentimental demands upon him, to which he, with the best will in the world, had not the temperament to respond. Toni, for her part, possessed that good taste for which Frau Regine had given her credit.
So Toni objected no longer, but said he would be glad to do something and not let his mother work alone. Then it occurred to Elsbeth that, if Toni was going to be away the whole summer she could perhaps go to one of the big hotels in Interlaken where so many strangers go for the summer. There she could earn a good sum of money and meet the coming winter without anxiety.
Then he caught the faint sound of ripples: he fancied he descried a dark form on the water; it drew nearer, became more definite. "Is that you, sahib?" said a low voice. "Yes." He gave a great sigh of relief. The toni drew alongside, and soon five men, with bundles, muskets, and the small heavy barrel, stood with Desmond and the Gujarati on the deck of the gallivat.
I was near by, and you were forced to accept my services even though I do not stand very well in your esteem." A flush crossed Marietta's face as she remembered the time when she had poured the vials of her wrath and contempt over this man who now came to her rescue so bravely. "I was thinking of Toni and her father," she answered softly.
Browned with the sun, her Southern colouring accentuated by the months spent in what was, after all, almost her native land, Toni looked the picture of glowing, vivid health; and when, late that night, she faced her husband with sparkling eyes across the rose-decked table, Owen realized, for the first time, that this quaint, half-foreign wife of his was giving promise of developing into actual beauty.
Eva was horribly upset you know her nerves are all wrong and she fainted dead away in the hall and they had to send for a doctor and we took her home ... and altogether," said Toni, breaking at last into tears, "it was a fearful scene, and I wish I'd never gone near the Club!" "I wish to God you hadn't!" Owen sprang up, more upset than he cared to confess.
Ah, the great man!... He surely was going to live to be a hundred! And the cook flattered by such praises, whose origin he did not happen to comprehend, responded as always, "That is so, my captain." Toni, silent, disciplined and familiar, inspired him with no less admiration. His life was an upright life, firm and plain, as the road of duty.
When Owen at last arrived it was with an inward glee that Toni heard the clock strike six; for now his visit must of necessity be short.
"This line 'There may be Heaven, there must be Hell' that's Robert Browning all right; but the next quotation is from the Sonnets to the Portuguese." "Is it?" Toni did not understand. "Well, Mrs. Browning wrote those, you know." He was busy repairing Toni's mistake. "And the next is hers, too.
The story of the shrimps had long since amused Lady Martin's large circle of acquaintances; and although no one had ventured to breathe a word before either Owen Rose or his wife, it was hardly surprising that Toni came to be considered rather amusingly unsophisticated; so that the slightest gaucherie into which the unconscious Toni was betrayed during those first weeks of her introduction into the society of the district was eagerly noted and joyfully magnified in a dozen drawing-rooms.
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