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"
The
sweet
Countess
!
"
murmured
Miss
Chesney
with
patronizing
tenderness
--
"
She
is
quite
lovely
still
!
"
Lady
Sibyl
glanced
at
her
with
a
sudden
haughty
frown
which
showed
me
plainly
what
a
rebellious
temper
the
young
beauty
held
in
control
;
and
I
fell
straightway
more
in
love
--
according
to
my
idea
of
love
--
than
ever
.
I
confess
I
like
a
woman
to
have
a
certain
amount
of
temper
.
I
can
not
endure
your
preternaturally
amiable
female
who
can
find
nothing
in
all
the
length
or
breadth
of
the
globe
to
move
her
to
any
other
expression
than
a
fatuous
smile
.
I
love
to
see
the
danger-flash
in
bright
eyes
--
the
delicate
quiver
of
pride
in
the
lines
of
a
lovely
mouth
,
and
the
warm
flush
of
indignation
on
fair
cheeks
.
It
all
suggests
spirit
,
and
untamed
will
;
and
rouses
in
a
man
the
love
of
mastery
that
is
born
in
his
nature
,
urging
him
to
conquer
and
subdue
that
which
seems
unconquerable
.
And
all
the
desire
of
such
conquest
was
strong
within
me
,
when
at
the
close
of
dinner
I
rose
and
held
the
door
open
for
the
ladies
to
pass
out
of
the
room
.
As
the
fair
Sibyl
went
,
the
violets
she
wore
at
her
bosom
dropped
.
I
picked
them
up
and
made
my
first
move
.
"
May
I
keep
these
?
"
I
said
in
a
low
tone
.
Her
breath
came
and
went
quickly
--
but
she
looked
straight
in
my
eyes
with
a
smile
that
perfectly
comprehended
my
hidden
meaning
.
"
You
may
!
"
she
answered
.
I
bowed
--
closed
the
door
behind
her
,
and
secreting
the
flowers
,
returned
,
well-satisfied
,
to
my
place
at
table
.
Left
with
myself
and
Lucio
,
Lord
Elton
threw
off
all
reserve
,
and
became
not
only
familiar
,
but
fawning
in
his
adulation
of
us
both
.
An
abject
and
pitiable
desire
to
please
and
propitiate
us
expressed
itself
in
his
every
look
and
word
;
and
I
firmly
believe
that
if
I
had
coolly
and
brutally
offered
to
buy
his
fair
daughter
by
private
treaty
for
a
hundred
thousand
pounds
,
that
sum
to
be
paid
down
to
him
on
the
day
of
marriage
,
he
would
have
gladly
agreed
to
sell
.
Apart
however
from
his
personal
covetousness
,
I
felt
and
knew
that
my
projected
courtship
of
Lady
Sibyl
would
of
necessity
resolve
itself
into
something
more
or
less
of
a
market
bargain
,
unless
indeed
I
could
win
the
girl
's
love
.
I
meant
to
try
and
do
this
,
but
I
fully
realized
how
difficult
,
nay
,
almost
impossible
it
would
be
for
her
to
forget
the
fact
of
my
unhampered
and
vast
fortune
,
and
consider
me
for
myself
alone
.
Herein
is
one
of
the
blessings
of
poverty
which
the
poor
are
frequently
too
apt
to
forget
.
A
moneyless
man
if
he
wins
a
woman
's
love
knows
that
such
love
is
genuine
and
untainted
by
self-interest
;
but
a
rich
man
can
never
be
truly
certain
of
love
at
all
.
The
advantages
of
a
wealthy
match
are
constantly
urged
upon
all
marriageable
girls
by
both
their
parents
and
friends
--
and
it
would
have
to
be
a
very
unsophisticated
feminine
nature
indeed
that
could
contemplate
a
husband
possessing
five
millions
of
money
,
without
a
touch
of
purely
interested
satisfaction
.
A
very
wealthy
man
can
never
be
sure
even
of
friendship
--
while
the
highest
,
strongest
and
noblest
kind
of
love
is
nearly
always
denied
to
him
,
in
this
way
carrying
out
the
fulfilment
of
those
strange
but
true
words
--
"
How
hardly
shall
he
that
is
a
rich
man
,
enter
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
!
"
The
heaven
of
a
woman
's
love
,
tried
and
proved
true
through
disaster
and
difficulty
--
of
her
unflinching
faithfulness
and
devotion
in
days
of
toil
and
bitter
anguish
--
of
her
heroic
self-abnegation
,
sweetness
and
courage
through
the
darkest
hours
of
doubt
and
disappointment
;
--
this
bright
and
splendid
side
of
woman
's
character
is
reserved
by
Divine
ordinance
for
the
poor
man
.
The
millionaire
can
indeed
wed
whomsoever
he
pleases
among
all
the
beauties
of
the
world
--
he
can
deck
his
wife
in
gorgeous
apparel
,
load
her
with
jewels
and
look
upon
her
in
all
the
radiance
of
her
richly
adorned
loveliness
as
one
may
look
upon
a
perfect
statue
or
matchless
picture
--
but
he
can
never
reach
the
deeper
secrets
of
her
soul
or
probe
the
well-springs
of
her
finer
nature
.
I
thought
this
even
thus
early
in
the
beginning
of
my
admiration
for
Lady
Sibyl
Elton
,
though
I
did
not
then
dwell
upon
it
as
I
have
often
done
since
.
I
was
too
elated
with
the
pride
of
wealth
to
count
the
possibilities
of
subtle
losses
amid
so
many
solid
gains
;
and
I
enjoyed
to
the
full
and
with
a
somewhat
contemptuous
malice
the
humble
prostration
of
a
'
belted
Earl
'
before
the
dazzling
mine
of
practically
unlimited
cash
as
represented
to
him
in
the
persons
of
my
brilliant
comrade
and
myself
.
I
took
a
curious
sort
of
pleasure
in
patronizing
him
,
and
addressed
him
with
a
protecting
air
of
indulgent
kindness
whereat
he
seemed
gratified
.
Inwardly
I
laughed
as
I
thought
how
differently
matters
would
have
stood
,
supposing
I
had
been
indeed
no
more
than
'
author
'
!
I
might
have
proved
to
be
one
of
the
greatest
writers
of
the
age
,
but
if
,
with
that
,
I
had
been
poor
or
only
moderately
well
off
,
this
same
half
bankrupt
Earl
who
privately
boarded
an
American
heiress
for
two
thousand
guineas
a
year
,
would
have
deemed
it
a
'
condescension
'
to
so
much
as
invite
me
to
his
house
--
would
have
looked
down
upon
me
from
his
titled
nothingness
and
perhaps
carelessly
alluded
to
me
as
'
a
man
who
writes
--
er
--
yes
--
er
--
rather
clever
I
believe
!
'
and
then
would
have
thought
no
more
about
me
.
For
this
very
cause
as
'
author
'
still
,
though
millionaire
,
I
took
a
fantastic
pleasure
in
humiliating
his
lordship
as
much
as
possible
,
and
I
found
the
best
way
to
do
this
was
to
talk
about
Willowsmere
.
I
saw
that
he
winced
at
the
very
name
of
his
lost
estate
,
and
that
notwithstanding
this
,
he
could
not
avoid
showing
his
anxiety
as
to
my
intentions
with
regard
to
its
occupation
.
Lucio
,
whose
wisdom
and
foresight
had
suggested
my
becoming
the
purchaser
of
the
place
,
assisted
me
in
the
most
adroit
fashion
to
draw
him
out
and
to
make
his
character
manifest
,
and
by
the
time
we
had
finished
our
cigars
and
coffee
I
knew
that
the
'
proud
'
Earl
of
Elton
,
who
could
trace
his
lineage
to
the
earliest
days
of
the
Crusaders
,
was
as
ready
to
bend
his
back
and
crawl
in
the
dust
for
money
as
the
veriest
hotel-porter
expectant
of
a
sovereign
'
tip
.
'
I
had
never
entertained
a
high
opinion
of
the
aristocracy
,
and
on
this
occasion
it
was
certainly
not
improved
,
but
remembering
that
the
spendthrift
nobleman
beside
me
was
the
father
of
Lady
Sibyl
,
I
treated
him
on
the
whole
with
more
respect
than
his
mean
and
grasping
nature
deserved
.
