A Parisian Romance — page 179: what you’re looking at

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170 A PARISI[AN ROMANCE. for offending the other two. So he said, with well- assumed gravity and with biting emphasis: “Pardon me, ladies; after what you have just said, I really cannot see that Madame de Targy is so much to be pitied, as you seem to think. When one is enabled to preserve, in the midst of mis- fortunes, such good, kind friends, who come to load her with consolation as. intelligent as it is delicate, she is really not to be pitied.” Madame de Luce exchanged an angry glance with Mrs. Martin, and then both ladies rose abruptly. | “We must go, Mathilde,” said Madame de Luce. “Tam starved. Suppose we go and lunch at Mar- quis’.” “As you like,” replied Mrs. Martin. “Good-by, dear madam.” “Good-by, Marcelle. Keep a good heart.” “Good-by,” replied Marcelle, coldly. Then, with an elaborate salute to the baron, which was returned by one no less elaborate, the two ladies sailed away, dragging after them silks and laces, the cost of which would be a fortune to a poor family. “Charming creatures,” said the baron, dryly, as. he resumed his seat. Marcelle tried to laugh, but her mortification suffocated her. In spite of her efforts at self-con- ' trol, two or three angry tears rolled down her Eomicbooks.Go |