A Parisian Romance — page 170: what you’re looking at

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A PARISIAN ROMANCE 161 leave until day after to-morrow, Saturday. My preparations are all made, everybody is ready, and as [had a few minutes to spare this afternoon, I thought I could not occupy them better than in coming to say farewell to my best, my most charm- ing pupil.” “It is exceedingly kind of you.” Juliani glanced at her sharply from under his brows. What had happened? She had not been wont to receive him so coldly. “To tell you the truth,” he said, softly, fixing his lustrous black eyes upon her, and watching every change of expression, “my visit, I confess, is not en- tirely disinterested. I have not yet lost all hope——” “What folly!” interrupted Marcelle, seeking in her mind for some excuse to put an end to the interview. Although it was not her fault that she had been forced to receive him, her conscience re- proached her somewhat. “For,” continued Juliani, calmly, “the more I have thought of it, the less I understand your ob- stinate refusal to grasp the fortune which lies within your reach. If you will permit me to say so, your obstinacy seems so unreasonable that I do not yet despair of conquering it.” “Even if you should succeed in conquering my obstinacy, as you call it, that would not be suffi- - cient. You would have to convert my husband, _ which would be still more impossible.” GComicbooks co im