The Maid of Honour: a Tale of the Dark Days of France 1
The Maid of Honour: a Tale of the Dark Days of France 1
Wingfield, Lewis Strange, 1842-1891
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*' Or get him to lend you for a time one of his cultured adepts." Digitized by LjOOQIC 154 Temptation. *' Ah ! if he would do that ! " echoed Clovis, eagerly. *' If he would lend me somebody who knows." " Our dear Gabrielle would not stand an adept ! " cried the abbd, with laughter. **See how distressed she looks at my poor suggestion ! Nay, sweet sister ; I was only jesting. In sooth, this new-fangled bucket is too large a bolus to swallow. The idea of sensible - people squatting round a tub w...ith glass wands pressed against their temples ! " ^ Pharamond's access of facetiousness nettled the marquis, who remarked peevishly, ** What a puzzle you are ! Too gifted and too learned, I should have thought, to mock as the ignorant do at all that they cannot fathom." ** Nay ! I did not mean to anger you ! " cried Pharamond, still laughing. Digitized by LjOOQIC Temptation, 155 ** But I was bound to reassure our hostess as to an irruption of adepts. Come, come. Let her enjoy the evening air. Show me the plans and instructions, and while I endeavour to decipher them, play me a tune on the 'cello.
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