‘Yes, for there were too many females for the vicomte to make me a dowry. ‘Do you not
understand that I can trust no one—no one?’
‘That is a pity,’ Gerald said, rising to face her. Things now began to wear so serious a aspect that a messenger was secretly
despatched to the Savoy for troops, and in half an hour a regiment of the guards
arrived, who by dint of great exertion succeeded in partially dispersing the
tumultuous assemblage. By this time, several of the terrified domestics appeared with lights. Wood, regarding her husband with
a glance of vindictive triumph. ’
‘Ah, that was an affair altogether different,’ she explained and fluttered her
long lashes at him. “You’re getting too old to put things off, John. Hawk and Buzzard. Everything had stayed the same during the centuries. Impassive by nature and training, he was
conscious to-night of a strange sense of excitement, of exhilaration tempered by
a dull background of disappointment. The
wine bubbled and seethed; and the exquisite bouquet of oranges permeated the
room. Immeasurable disgust possessed her. Her
elbows were ready. It takes
too many years to climb even a step in the social ladder. And it filled seven sheets of
notepaper, each written only on one side.
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