Part 3 (1/2)
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”You are insolent, monsieur”
”It is never insolent to pray, Aline And I did no more than pray, as I shall continue to do You'll need rowing angry, as he saw by the deepening frown, the heightened colour
”That is because I suffer Oh, Aline, little cousin, think well of what you do; think well of the realities you will be bartering for these shams--the realities that you will never know, because these cursed shams will block your way to them When M de La Tour d'Azyr comes to make his court, study him well; consult your fine instincts; leave your own noble nature free to judge this animal by its intuitions Consider that”
”I consider, monsieur, that you presume upon the kindness I have always shown you You abuse the position of toleration in which you stand Who are you? What are you, that you should have the insolence to take this tone with ain, and resuratulations, in to adapt yourself to the great role you are to play”
”Do you adapt yourself also, rily, and turned her shoulder to hihty feet of Madame la Marquise I hope I shall know my place in future”
The phrase arrested her She turned to hi now suspiciously In an instant the mockery in him was quenched in contrition
”Lord, what a beast I aive iveness from him But his contrition removed the need
”I'll try,” said she, ”provided that you undertake not to offend again”
”But I shall,” said he ”I aht to save you, froiveeach other a little breathlessly, a little defiantly, when the others issued from the porch
First caht of the Orders of the Holy Ghost and Saint Louis, and Brigadier in the arht and soldierly of carriage, with his head disdainfully set upon his shoulders He was nificently dressed in a full-skirted coat of old His waistcoat, of velvet too, was of a golden apricot colour; his breeches and stockings were of black silk, and his lacquered, red-heeled shoes were buckled in diamonds His powdered hair was tied behind in a broad ribbon of watered silk; he carried a little three-cornered hat under his ar at his side
Considering hinificence of hi in so extraordinary a raciousness, Andre-Louis trembled for Aline Here was a practised, irresistible wooer, whose bonnes fortunes were becoers with hters, and the desolation of husbands with attractive wives
He was immediately followed by M de Kercadiou, in cos of the shortest, the Lord of Gavrillac carried a body that at forty-five was beginning to incline to corpulence and an enorence His countenance was pink and blotchy, liberally branded by the suished him in youth In dress he was careless to the point of untidiness, and to this and to the fact that he had never entleman to provide hiynist attributed to him by the countryside
After M de Kercadiou caht lips and an overcast brow
To ant young gentleman, the Chevalier de Chabrillane, M de La Tour d'Azyr's cousin, hilst awaiting his return had watched with considerable interest--his own presence unsuspected--the pera Aline, M de La Tour d'Azyr detached hiht across the terrace to her
To Andre-Louis the Marquis inclined his head with that mixture of courtliness and condescension which he used Socially, the young lawyer stood in a curious position By virtue of the theory of his birth, he ranked neither as noble nor as simple, but stood somewhere between the two classes, and whilst claimed by neither he was used familiarly by both Coldly now he returned M de La Tour d'Azyr's greeting, and discreetly reo and join his friend
The Marquis took the hand thatover it, bore it to his lips
”Made into the blue depths of her eyes, thatand untroubled, ”monsieur your uncle does e to you Will you, mademoiselle, do me the honour to receive reat importance for your ear”
”Of ihten me” But there was no fear on the serene little face in its furred hood It was not for nothing that she had graduated in the Versailles school of artificialities
”That,” said he, ”is very far fron”