Her aunt was blandly amiable above a certain tremulous
undertow, and talked as if to a caller about the alarming spread of marigolds that
summer at the end of the garden, a sort of Yellow Peril to all the smaller hardy
annuals, while her father brought some papers to table and presented himself as
preoccupied with them. Shortly afterwards,—it seemed an age to the anxious mother,—Mr. Cathy reached out and
touched Lucy’s chin with her two fingers, gently
commanding her attention. She was a small blonde, not handsome, but with a flair for fashion
demonstrated by her elegant chemise gown in the very latest Canterbury muslin,
with its low décolletage barely concealed under a fine lawn handkerchief set
about her shoulders, and decorated with a mauve satin sash at the waist. They drove up into Paris in an open fiacre with a soft cool wind
blowing in their faces, hand in hand beneath the rug. I always say that it’s poverty before everything that makes a girl skip the
line. ” Or someone, she
thought with disgust. The halls are
on the lookout for something new. ‘You put that thing away now,
missie. I have made her an
honourable proposal of marriage, in compliance with the request of her lamented
parent, whose memory—"
"Dare to utter that falsehood in my hearing again, scoundrel," interrupted
Thames fiercely, "and I will put it out of your power to repeat the offence.
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