Beauty and the Beast

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Page 8 - Remy, but Mrs. Maynard who came out, looking very pale, and who said, "Patty, darling, I have been very much pained. Your cousin has behaved so strangely and unkindly to you and me, and to your father, that we can never forget or forgive it. Your father says so.
Page 8 - Remy would come out to her again. From where she sat Patty could see the reflection of the two talkers in the big sloping looking-glass over the library table. Her mother was standing very dignified and stately, the young man had drawn himself straight up — so straight, so grim and fierce-looking, that Patty, as she looked, was surer and more sure that all was not right ; and she saw her mother give him a letter, and he seemed to push it away. And then it was not R£my but Mrs.
Page 15 - ... Oh, find the way, please. Do you see any more arrows ? Here is one ; come, come." Patty turned, and began to retrace her steps, hurrying along in a fever of terror and remorse. The wood-pigeons cooed overhead, the long lines of distant trees were mingling and twisting in a sort of dance, as she flew along. " Wait for me, Patty,
Page 14 - You will hope, too, will you not ?" " Yes, indeed, I will," said Patty; "and now, Remy, you must go : I have talked to you long enough. See, this is the back gate and the way to the Rue de la Lampe." For they had been walking on all this time and following the course of the avenue. One or two people passing by looked kindly at the handsome young couple strolling in the sunshine ; a man in a blouse, wheeling a hand-truck, lo,oked over his shoulder a second time as he turned down the turning to the...
Page 14 - It is for my grandmother," said the girl, resisting. " Remy, have you really anything to say?" They had come to the end of the park, where its gates lead into the forest ; one road led to the Rue de la Lampe, the other into the great waving world of trees. It was a lovely summer's afternoon. There was a host in the air, delighting and basking in the golden comfort; butterflies, midges, flights of birds from the forest were passing. It was pleasant to exist in such a place and hour, to walk by...
Page 1 - It was all empty, dim-panelled, orderly, with its narrow tall windows refiecting the green without, and the gables and chimney-stacks piling under the blue. He was in the drawing-room then ; she had hoped to find him here. Marthe sighed and then walked on across the polished floor, and so into the drawing-room. It was dimmer, more chill than the room in which their meals were served. Some one was standing waiting for her in one of the windows. Marthe' remembered at that, instant that it was Lord...
Page 3 - England, where she went and took possession of her new home. The neighbours called; the drawing-room chintzes were renewed; Marthe Capuchon existed no longer; no one would have recognized the listless ghost flitting here and there, and gazing from the windows of the old house in the Rue de la Lampe, in the busy and practical mistress of Henry Maynard's home. She had gained in composure and spirits and happiness since she came to England. Her house was admirably administered; she wore handsome shining...
Page 5 - Remy made his appearance at Littleton, when the family lawyer, Monsieur Micotton, had come over to see her on business. This grasping, clear-headed woman exercised a strange authority and fascination over the stupid little attorney ; he did her business cheaper than for any other client ; he told her all sorts of secrets he had no right to communicate; and now he let out to her that her mother had been making her will, and had left everything that she had laid by, in trust for little Marthe Maynard,...

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