Novels And Tales: Reprinted From Household Words, volume 2
Novels And Tales: Reprinted From Household Words, volume 2
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
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I left dear Jenny, pal- pitating, in a room downstairs, while I went up to the apartment occupied by the count and countess. It was one of the £nest in that gorgeous mansion, a large * drawing-room, magnificently furnished; at one end of it, upon an ottoman, lounged a gentleman with a news- paper; and, at the other end, in an arm-chair reclined madame. It was late in the spring-time, but a brisk fire was burning in the grate, and she seemed to have every need of it. She did not rise at my entra...nce, and her husband only lifted his head up languidly, and de- manded, in a voice strangely at variance with his words, "To what happy chance he was thus deeply indebted for the honour of my presence?" I don't know whether he was practising the superpoliteness of his countrymen, or whether he was sneering. "I come/' answered I, in such French as I could Digitized by VjOOQIC 254 XT LITTLE WAXD. command, ''not withont reason, sir. It is possible iiiat I may have been misinformed, and be mistaken; bnt, I think that I bring some intelligence which will afSect you both, very, very deeply/' A little lifting of the lady's pencilled eyebrows, a scarcely perceptible shrug of the count's shoulders were the only replies.
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