But what if she were to marry? He glanced towards the elderly dame and found her watching him, the dimple very much in evidence. He had absorbed her in a single glance, and was now defining her as he worked. ’ ‘Miss?’ gaped the soldier. Very slowly emerging out of a phase of stupefaction, these personal affairs and her personal problem resumed possession of her mind. ’ ‘Ah, but why remain penniless? After all, your grandfather Charvill—’ ‘Again with the grandfather? Mon ami, if you imagine that this grandfather will welcome a daughter of Nicholas Charvill, whom he has never forgiven that he married a Frenchwoman, then you have an imagination entirely wrong. Startled by the cry, as may be supposed, the attention of the whole congregation was drawn towards the quarter whence it proceeded. Such ambitions as he had were stereotyped and material. Earles watched her anxiously. Her impressions of this cardinal ceremony were rich and confused, complicated by a quite transitory passion that awakened no reciprocal fire for a fat curly headed cousin in black velveteen and a lace collar, who assisted as a page. Thank goodness there’s plenty of opportunity! And we two can talk. I must apologize, I suppose, for speaking to you, but your appearance certainly indicated that you were in some sort of trouble, and you were becoming—pardon me—an object of comment to the passers-by.
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