Juliet's guardian, Volumen2 |
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Página 293 - But nevertheless it is so,' continued the lady, scornfully ignoring the interruption. ' And Madame will probablement marry herself to this fat monsieur ; and then, my poor Jams, what will become of you ? you will lose your place ; the house here will be all broken up, the servants will all go, you will have to get another place.
Página 218 - ... so near them, were feasting themselves on Juliet's beauty. ' And it was for this that I gave her up ! My God, for this ! ' he muttered below his breath, as he strode on with all the fierce turmoil of bitter hatred surging within him. Mrs. Travers' house in Upper Grosvenor Street was a chef d'ceuvre of good taste and luxury.
Página 130 - Yours always, HUGH FLEMING. The letter dropped from her fingers. What did he mean ? how could she have written to him, who had never written to her ? in what had she been harsh to him? Harsh ! and to him, her love, her heart's darling ! how could such a thing have been possible ? With set white lips, and lines of painful bewilderment on her forehead, she knelt, staring blankly in front of her. Dimly, vaguely, there dawned upon her the possibility of the existence of some horrible misunderstanding...
Página 270 - Travers's wife in all her blaze of satin and diamonds, the consciousness that it is in her house that she is to play, has made her heart flutter ever since she came in. Just before she begins she looks down the room, and through the sea of faces catches sight of Cecil's ; a half smile passes rapidly between them, and then Gretchen sits down, strikes her first chord, and forgets to be nervous. There are not many performers on the pianoforte who have the art of silencing a mixed chattering audience...
Página 248 - Juliet!' cried Mrs. Dalmaine, still in convulsions of laughter ; ' only — my dear — your husband is quite — the most amusing man — I ever met in my life ! ' At which piece of information Juliet looked profoundly astonished, and Cis proportionately irate. After lunch, when Lord George had taken his departure, and Mrs. Dalmaine was established in her friend's barouche — for, having no carriage of her own, she generally managed to be taken out in Juliet's — the little woman observed to her...
Página 227 - What should I go out with you for ? You have got that horrid Dalmaine woman with you. She always laughs at me.' ' Don't abuse my friends, please ! Besides, she is not here now. I am going out for ten minutes by myself ; won't you come, Cis ? ' she added, in a conciliatory voice, laying her hand gently on his shoulder. But Cis shook her off impatiently. 'You don't really want me — it is all sham ; you don't care a farthing about me ! ' and he turned sulkily away from her. ' You are enough to try...
Página 1 - EBXESTIKE,' said Mrs. Blair to that talented damsel, during the course of the same day that Colonel Fleming had so suddenly left Sotherne Court, — ' Ernestine, you are looking very pale.' ' Thank you, madame, my health is quite good.' ' That makes no difference,' persisted her mistress. ' You are looking very pale, and I am not at all easy about you.' Here Mademoiselle Ernestine's gifted nature asserted itself, and she perceived that it was her duty to be pale and ailing. ' Oui, madame, perhaps...
Página 206 - Now and then somebody's carriage is loudly proclaimed to be ' stopping the way,' and one or two people rush frantically out in violent haste ; but for the most part the well-dressed bright-coloured throng stands contentedly looking about, in no hurry to be gone, nodding at distant and unget-at-able acquaintances over each other's heads, or merely staring at each other curiously or admiringly as occasion may demand, Standing a good way back from the staircase, and very much jammed in between a fat...
Página 235 - cried the lady, with a toss of her head ; ' who ever heard of such rubbish ! No, of course, as you have been so foolish and improvident, I must keep myself prepared every day till he comes with a suitable dinner — only don't complain, general, if the bills are high — it will be entirely your own fault, remember, if they are ! ' So for the next fortnight the little general fared sumptuously every day, greatly to his own satisfaction, but the expected guest never made his appearance. Meanwhile...
Página 42 - Chanticleer, half jealous, half confiding, rested his grey nose and one heavy paw on his young mistress's knee, and blinked up lovingly at her with his one solemn brown eye. Altogether it was an evening like old times that the two spent together in the dingy, cosy, little smoking den. The next morning the wind had gone round to the south-west, and the frost was giving in every direction. ' Hurrah ! ' shouted the Squire, as he bounced into the breakfast-room, with the energy of a schoolboy. ' Hurrah...