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diff --git a/40432-h/40432-h.htm b/40432-h/40432-h.htm index e76321b..76c8082 100644 --- a/40432-h/40432-h.htm +++ b/40432-h/40432-h.htm @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of Miss Hildreth, Vol 2 of 3, by A. De Grasse Stevens. @@ -174,47 +174,7 @@ table { </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Miss Hildreth, Volume 2 of 3, by -Augusta de Grasse Stevens - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Miss Hildreth, Volume 2 of 3 - A Novel - -Author: Augusta de Grasse Stevens - -Release Date: August 7, 2012 [EBook #40432] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MISS HILDRETH, VOLUME 2 OF 3 *** - - - - -Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40432 ***</div> <div class="figcenter"> <img src="images/tp2.jpg" alt=""/> @@ -277,7 +237,7 @@ WARD AND DOWNEY,<br /> <tr><td align="right">CHAPTER XII.</td><td><a href="#CHAPTER_XII"> PLOTTING </a></td><td align="right">203</td></tr> -<tr><td align="right">CHAPTER XIII.</td><td><a href="#CHAPTER_XIII"> THÉ ANGLAIS </a></td><td align="right">227</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">CHAPTER XIII.</td><td><a href="#CHAPTER_XIII"> THÉ ANGLAIS </a></td><td align="right">227</td></tr> <tr><td align="right">CHAPTER XIV.</td><td><a href="#CHAPTER_XIV"> "FIND ME THE WOMAN" </a></td><td align="right">239</td></tr> @@ -316,7 +276,7 @@ into the air, graceful and quivering with a thousand golden lights, that seemed to break against it, and then fling the fragments broadcast with careless prodigality; these in falling touched again the fluttering flag on the white belfry, glanced athwart the Imperial mint, and awoke myriad -reflections in the façade of the Winter Palace.</p> +reflections in the façade of the Winter Palace.</p> <p>This tall spire, shooting upwards like a lance, is the crowning glory of Russia's great State prison, and Russia's Imperial tomb of kings, the @@ -552,7 +512,7 @@ the cold keen air like a bell, and causing an old woman creeping slowly on her weary way, to turn and bless his youth and good looks in Our Lady's name.</p> -<p>"<i>Hé!</i> but 'tis good to be young, monsieur, and beautiful. Saint Peter +<p>"<i>Hé!</i> but 'tis good to be young, monsieur, and beautiful. Saint Peter send you a fair lady-love, and a short shrift!"</p> <p>Ivor laughed again, and tossed the old dame a small coin; but the mirth @@ -622,7 +582,7 @@ turned to follow her.</p> <p>"Good God!" he exclaimed, standing for a moment uncertain what to do, the look of horror still stamped upon his features, "as I am a living -man, that was the face of Adèle Lamien, the murderer of Stevan +man, that was the face of Adèle Lamien, the murderer of Stevan Lallovich, and his repudiated wife!"</p> @@ -751,8 +711,8 @@ affirm?"</p> <p>"The proof of my own eyes," replied Ivor, hotly, "I tell you, chief, Mellikoff is deceiving you for reasons of his own, for I, this very -morning, since I parted with you, have stood face to face with Adèle -Lamien, who calls herself Adèle Lallovich!"</p> +morning, since I parted with you, have stood face to face with Adèle +Lamien, who calls herself Adèle Lallovich!"</p> <p>"You, Ivor, impossible!" cried Patouchki, "you have seen her, and here in Petersburg, in broad daylight! And where?"</p> @@ -767,7 +727,7 @@ features thrown out vividly against her black apparel. She passed me rapidly, pulling down her veil impetuously, as she fled out and down the steps before I could put out my hand to stop her, and when I reached the pavement she had disappeared. But I tell you, chief, as I hope to be -saved at the hour of my death, it was the face of Adèle Lallovich into +saved at the hour of my death, it was the face of Adèle Lallovich into which I looked for that brief interval."</p> <p>"Impossible!" again ejaculated Patouchki. "Impossible that she should be @@ -775,7 +735,7 @@ here, in Petersburg, and the Chancellerie remain ignorant of her arrival. She is a marked woman to all our emissaries, how could she come and go, without disguise even, and we remain in ignorance? No, no, my good Ivor, your eyes mislead you this time; with all her arrogant -bravery Adèle Lamien knows better than to put her head in the lion's +bravery Adèle Lamien knows better than to put her head in the lion's jaws, or herself in the power of the Chancellerie."</p> <p>"I tell you I saw her," repeated Tolskoi, obstinately, "believe me or @@ -846,7 +806,7 @@ gloomy fortress.</p> three-quarters of a square mile, and divided into so many rambling corridors, barracks, ravelins, bastions, curtains, and store-houses, as to be for the most part unknown even to the officials who form its -<i>ménage</i>, and who, having certain portions of the immense structure set +<i>ménage</i>, and who, having certain portions of the immense structure set apart for their duties, live out their lives without exploring, or being permitted to explore beyond their individual domains.</p> @@ -1016,7 +976,7 @@ prison, still retained memories of the outer world, and sentiments of Imperial justice—believing that their Tsar, once convinced of their innocent incarceration, would order their instant release—that this transfer was made. Any possible outbreak was to be avoided at all -hazards, since any such <i>émeute</i> could not but end awkwardly for the +hazards, since any such <i>émeute</i> could not but end awkwardly for the Imperial inspectors, and disastrously for the officials.</p> <p>Had these poor wretches but suspected that the tall, soldierly man, @@ -1196,7 +1156,7 @@ news; and though at the time he endeavoured to treat it with cavalier disbelief, he nevertheless had an inner consciousness, of its truth, and a presentiment of complications to follow in consequence.</p> -<p>That Adèle Lamien should be in Petersburg, and the Chancellerie have +<p>That Adèle Lamien should be in Petersburg, and the Chancellerie have neither warning of her intentions, nor knowledge of her presence, seemed, as he had said to Tolskoi, impossible; and yet, even as the word fell from his lips, he knew himself to be wrong, and Ivor to be right. @@ -1212,7 +1172,7 @@ they were pursuing, and to hear her laugh in their ears, as she slipped out of their fingers! And then, what a bad precedent was even this slight dereliction on the part of the Chancellerie; and how could the discipline of fear be kept up in the minds of the younger members of the -great body, if such a defection became known? And the woman, Adèle +great body, if such a defection became known? And the woman, Adèle Lamien, was brazen enough and clever enough, smarting as she was under her own wrongs, to circulate their blindness and failure, just where it would most redound to their discredit.</p> @@ -1249,7 +1209,7 @@ nature, as the sight of the pale sorrow on her Tsarina's face set vibrating the chords of her quick and passionate sympathy. She accorded Ivor but a half-hearted attention, scarcely hearing his soft pleadings, and while retaining unconsciously a memory of his insinuations against -Vladimir, it was not until the Royal <i>cortège</i> turned down the gay +Vladimir, it was not until the Royal <i>cortège</i> turned down the gay boulevard that a full realisation of his meaning came to her. She turned then sharply to him, as he sat beside her, and, with her favourite imperious upward movement of her head, said abruptly, though @@ -1479,12 +1439,12 @@ he left Russia; granting him all necessary time for easy travelling and stoppages, he must have reached the United States close on to a month ago, which would leave him this last month to lay his train, if not to find the woman. I have said, mademoiselle, that this woman calling -herself Adèle Lallovich, was assisted through Russia, and over the +herself Adèle Lallovich, was assisted through Russia, and over the frontier, by the influence of some strong political agent, one whose word and whose name carried the weight of coercion. Very well, this happened early in December; in January Count Vladimir leaves Petersburg, and reaches America early in February. A month goes by, and within the -first week of March I meet Adèle Lallovich face to face here. Ah, I see +first week of March I meet Adèle Lallovich face to face here. Ah, I see you have followed my reasoning. The same powerful influence that got her out of Russia, when danger menaced her here, has now sent her back to Petersburg, where she is for the time being more secure from arrest than @@ -1494,7 +1454,7 @@ planned and executed Count Stevan's murder, and that used <i>her</i> as their instrument. I think, mademoiselle, that Count Mellikoff will somewhat disappoint the expectations and shake the confidence of his Government, when he returns without any definite intelligence or any important -information regarding the movements and condition of Adèle Lallovich."</p> +information regarding the movements and condition of Adèle Lallovich."</p> <p>Olga heard him throughout without word or sign, though not one detail of the terrible suspicion he so boldly advanced was lost upon her. Slowly @@ -1519,9 +1479,9 @@ to deal one more swift sure blow. Meeting Olga's strained violet eyes with his, in which the steel-blue light flamed out, he said slowly and with distinct emphasis:</p> -<p>"Adèle Lamien, or Lallovich, is a rarely beautiful woman, Olga, and +<p>"Adèle Lamien, or Lallovich, is a rarely beautiful woman, Olga, and beauty such as hers is a dangerous attribute. Count Mellikoff is a -worshipper of woman's loveliness, and the story goes that when Adèle +worshipper of woman's loveliness, and the story goes that when Adèle Lamien became the wife of Stevan Lallovich, she cast off a former lover whose chains had begun to gall. Who that lover was, Olga, I leave to your imagination. But when Stevan Lallovich repudiated and threw aside @@ -1762,7 +1722,7 @@ distinctness across the morning stillness, and shattered Vladimir's sentiment with a straight, keen blow.</p> <p>"Her very own name," said Marianne, slowly, and taking great pains with -her syllables, "is Mademoiselle Lamien—Mademoiselle Adèle Lamien."</p> +her syllables, "is Mademoiselle Lamien—Mademoiselle Adèle Lamien."</p> <p>The stripped daisy-head fell from Count Mellikoff's fingers, and lay at his feet amidst its snow-flake petals unheeded. He started violently at @@ -1782,7 +1742,7 @@ mistress's favour.</p> the forced lightness of his voice; as it was, even Mimi looked up surprised by the change in it.</p> -<p>"And is it, then, Mademoiselle Lamien—Adèle Lamien—that you call by +<p>"And is it, then, Mademoiselle Lamien—Adèle Lamien—that you call by the <i>petit-nom</i> of Lammy?" he asked.</p> <p>"Yes," replied the child, a little startled and impressed by his manner. @@ -1838,7 +1798,7 @@ song of the birds echoing ceaselessly in his ears—a sudden light broke over the gloom of his countenance, a half-formed exclamation rose to his lips; he dropped the flower suddenly, and took a step forward.</p> -<p>"No, I am not wrong," he said, in answer to himself. "Let Adèle Lamien +<p>"No, I am not wrong," he said, in answer to himself. "Let Adèle Lamien beware, or I may turn her own arms against her." Then he turned abruptly and walked towards the house; and only the sunshine, and the birds, and Mimi's faded blossoms remained.</p> @@ -1900,7 +1860,7 @@ in true hero-worship, on the face of her divinity.</p> <p>Before a large Psyche-glass stood Baby Leonard, absorbed in a row of suggestive little porcelain pots, and breathlessly engaged in the -exciting process of "making up" in daylight, <i>à propos</i> of the evening's +exciting process of "making up" in daylight, <i>à propos</i> of the evening's requirements.</p> <p>Esther was resting in a lounging-chair with Mimi on her lap, the golden @@ -1978,7 +1938,7 @@ punishment," again interjected Miss Darling, piously.</p> <p>"Ah, but Sir Piers was a gay young baronet in those days," said Esther, with decision. "<i>Any</i> girl might have hesitated before she gave him his -<i>congé</i>. However, that's neither here nor there. Margaret Newbold was a +<i>congé</i>. However, that's neither here nor there. Margaret Newbold was a very great favourite; and one evening, at a big dinner party at a tremendously swell house, she was given a proportionately great grandee as a cavalier. This very high-bred personage began by staring at her, up @@ -2003,7 +1963,7 @@ And one might suppose so, you know, with reason, judging from some of the specimens we get over here."</p> <p>"It's very trying," broke in Baby Leonard, plaintively; "I <i>can't</i> get -both sides of my face to look alike, and this <i>crème impératrice</i> is so +both sides of my face to look alike, and this <i>crème impératrice</i> is so sticky! What shall I do?"</p> <p>"Leave it all alone," cried Miss Darling, brusquely. "You can't improve @@ -2057,7 +2017,7 @@ the tiny vellum book she held:</p> <span class="i0">A most sad, melodious utterance, as of some immortal wrong.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">"Like the pleading, oft repeated, of a soul that pleads in vain,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Of a damnèd soul repentant, that would fain be pure again!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of a damnèd soul repentant, that would fain be pure again!<br /></span> <span class="i0">And I lie awake and listen to the music of her pain.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">"And whence comes this mournful music? Whence, unless it chance to be<br /></span> @@ -2081,7 +2041,7 @@ continuation of the tragedy when Miss Hildreth spoke again, slowly and without any apparent reason, save inward impulse.</p> <p>"I have known one such woman once, to whom all life and all time was but -the cry of 'a damnèd soul,' crying out ceaselessly against 'an immortal +the cry of 'a damnèd soul,' crying out ceaselessly against 'an immortal wrong.' Did our poet know her story, I wonder, when he wrote of his 'brown siren'? But no; this poor soul has had no one to sing out her wrongs, or open up the story of the treachery that blasted her life. @@ -2192,16 +2152,16 @@ Marianne hastily down, and came towards her.</p> <p>"You have said quite enough," she exclaimed, excitedly. "Patty, Patty, let me beg you to be careful."</p> -<p>As she spoke, the door behind the swinging <i>portières</i> opened slightly, +<p>As she spoke, the door behind the swinging <i>portières</i> opened slightly, unperceived by any one except Miss James, over whose face the same sneering smile crept out again. Miss Hildreth looked up at Mrs. Newbold with defiance in her eyes and on her lips.</p> <p>"My dear Esther, surely you are a little too dramatic. Why should not I gratify Miss Dick's romantic inquisitiveness? Her name—the name of this -woman—was—is—well, let us call it Adèle Lallovich."</p> +woman—was—is—well, let us call it Adèle Lallovich."</p> -<p>As she uttered the words clearly and distinctly, the <i>portières</i> were +<p>As she uttered the words clearly and distinctly, the <i>portières</i> were pushed hastily aside, and George Newbold's voice preceded himself in person, exclaiming:</p> @@ -2321,7 +2281,7 @@ both the name and existence of our once bosom friend.</p> <p>This was society's philosophy regarding Patricia Hildreth, and thus for ten long years her place had been vacant in the circles of the great world, and she herself forgotten as completely as the snows of last -year. "Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?" may be asked of more things +year. "Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?" may be asked of more things than Musset dreamed of, when he wrote his sad and bitter reproach.</p> <p>Miss James had met Philip late in the afternoon of George Newbold's @@ -2390,7 +2350,7 @@ where she passed those two hours, when all the world were absorbed in the miniature playhouse. With one of those strange sudden waves of perception she saw again a broken feather-fan and golden-hued rose lying together on the velvet carpet, and Vladimir Mellikoff, tall and dark and -smiling, holding back the heavy <i>portières</i>, through which she escaped +smiling, holding back the heavy <i>portières</i>, through which she escaped trembling and doomed.</p> <p>She caught her breath and went on a little nervously:</p> @@ -2399,7 +2359,7 @@ trembling and doomed.</p> Mrs. Bouncer myself; she is quite antipathetic to me."</p> <p>"Then surely you deserve all the more praise," said Mr. Tremain, -courteously. "If to be out of accord with one's rôle results so +courteously. "If to be out of accord with one's rôle results so favourably I shall devoutly pray that Henri de Flavigneul and I may be at daggers drawn this evening."</p> @@ -2517,7 +2477,7 @@ another word.</p> <p>Philip's meditations, if unpleasant before, were now distinctly disagreeable. He disliked mystery, and above all things and most of all he disliked it in connection with a woman. In his eyes all women should -be, like Cæsar's wife, above suspicion, and it hurt and galled him that +be, like Cæsar's wife, above suspicion, and it hurt and galled him that even a shadow of aspersion should rest on Patricia's fair fame.</p> <p>And yet, as Miss James had said, ten years was a long time, and Miss @@ -2646,7 +2606,7 @@ miniature orchestra screen. The rose-houses had been stripped of their loveliest exotics, and these rifled blossoms hung their gorgeous heads amidst a quivering background of clinging green smilax.</p> -<p>On each rose-silk <i>fauteuil</i> lay a bouquet of the golden-hued Maréchal +<p>On each rose-silk <i>fauteuil</i> lay a bouquet of the golden-hued Maréchal Niels, tied with long ribbons of palest amber, and a tiny satin programme on which, amidst quaint device of scroll work, were inscribed the characters and scenes of the coming drama.</p> @@ -2686,7 +2646,7 @@ call. She was alone for the moment, and was standing with bent head and clasped hands, leaning against the tall carved chimney-screen that shielded the low burning logs on the hearth.</p> -<p>The long folds of her first costume, a <i>négligée</i> of Wörth's conception, +<p>The long folds of her first costume, a <i>négligée</i> of Wörth's conception, fell about her in a clinging amber sheen, across which the flots and draperies of <i>duchesse</i> lace fell in filmy cascades. Philip stopped involuntarily for a moment, and looked at her. Her marvellous loveliness @@ -2733,7 +2693,7 @@ wisest for him to detach himself at once.</p> so would he leave behind all recollection and all knowledge of Patricia. He desired to know nothing of her immediate past, he would refuse to be interested in her present or her future. Only, before he bid a long -good-bye to the Folly and its inmates, he must once more see Adèle +good-bye to the Folly and its inmates, he must once more see Adèle Lamien; there was something to be said to her, and he must say it.</p> <p>He moved slightly forward, and as he did so Patricia turned and looked @@ -2790,7 +2750,7 @@ state, beyond reproach. I cannot complain even of a rumpled tie, or an uncomfortable coat."</p> <p>She shrugged her shoulders indifferently. "You are fortunate and to be -congratulated. Does not Madame de Rémusat tell us of the annoyance +congratulated. Does not Madame de Rémusat tell us of the annoyance caused the great Napoleon by too tight arm-holes, and of Josephine's tears over the loss of one Cashmere, out of her two or three score? You see, my dear Philip, even the heroes of our immediate past were not @@ -2811,7 +2771,7 @@ all drawing-room comedies it is the most pleasing and the most comprehensive. Those who have seen the foremost actresses of our day personate the young and beautiful Countess d'Autreval—who is not ashamed, though fully conscious, of her love for Henri de Flavigneul, -and who bravely relinquishes it in favour of her girlish niece, Léonie +and who bravely relinquishes it in favour of her girlish niece, Léonie de Villegontier—will remember what scope can be shown in the development of that character, whose fundamental attributes seem at first sight to be those of impulse and self-gratification.</p> @@ -2828,16 +2788,16 @@ lines, the situations assumed a potential gravity and significance.</p> <p>From the moment of the Countess's soliloquy, "Now to be more than woman," when, recognising her growing love for the young soldier, she consults her looking-glass as the oracle which is to encourage or -dissuade her from entering the lists against Léonie, and then lays it +dissuade her from entering the lists against Léonie, and then lays it down with the significant line, "Ah, it has deceived so many!" to her final act of renunciation, Patricia carried the house with her, and left no loophole for any anti-interest or climax.</p> -<p>Baby Leonard made a charming Léonie. Her innocent face and +<p>Baby Leonard made a charming Léonie. Her innocent face and unsophisticated manner were a capital study and a clever following of nature; but it was on Patricia Hildreth that the sympathy and sentiment centred, and there arose almost a cry of disappointment when the curtain -dropped finally upon Léonie's happiness, at the price of the nobler +dropped finally upon Léonie's happiness, at the price of the nobler nature's self-sacrifice. Even her fellow actors felt her potency, and Philip most of all.</p> @@ -2899,7 +2859,7 @@ friend Mainwaring, he saw a happy opportunity of effacing himself naturally and without too violent a wrench.</p> <p>John Mainwaring had come down only for the theatricals, and nothing -could be more <i>à propos</i> than for Philip to make his <i>adieux</i> with him. +could be more <i>à propos</i> than for Philip to make his <i>adieux</i> with him. As for Patricia, he entertained no softer sentiment towards her than that of distinct disapprobation. He felt it would be a relief to get himself away from her influence and from the spell of her beauty. Twice @@ -2930,7 +2890,7 @@ black coffee.</p> <p>Philip observed with relief that Miss Hildreth was not among the number. Little Marianne was there, sitting by her mother's side, her fair child-face looking all the sweeter and fresher by contrast with the -jaded <i>borné</i> appearance of her elders. Vladimir Mellikoff was also +jaded <i>borné</i> appearance of her elders. Vladimir Mellikoff was also among the missing; but Miss James was at her place, seemingly none the worse for her exertions of the evening before, her sallow countenance and dark eyes being untouched either by fatigue or inertia.</p> @@ -2952,7 +2912,7 @@ my dear Esther, desire to wear out so warm a welcome as yours."</p> <p>But Mrs. Newbold did not rally to the implied compliment. She shook her head dubiously as she said:</p> -<p>"That is only a <i>façon de parler</i>. I did not suppose, Philip, that you +<p>"That is only a <i>façon de parler</i>. I did not suppose, Philip, that you would ever descend to subterfuge."</p> <p>At which Mr. Tremain laughed, and Miss James lifted her eyebrows in @@ -3026,7 +2986,7 @@ of the country, 'pastures green,' you know, and all that sort of thing."</p> far as the lower rooms were concerned, and luncheon, which was at all times a movable feast, became on this occasion a translated one, to be partaken of by the fairer sex within the privacy of their own -apartments, and in the luxury of <i>déshabilles</i>.</p> +apartments, and in the luxury of <i>déshabilles</i>.</p> <p>Late in the afternoon Mr. Tremain made his way to Esther Newbold's boudoir, and knocking with assured familiarity, opened the door almost @@ -3178,7 +3138,7 @@ scorned?</p> <p>There remained yet an hour before the time of his departure, and Philip, more by instinct than design, turned towards the library, and, pushing -back the noiseless <i>portières</i>, entered. The room was empty, and lay in +back the noiseless <i>portières</i>, entered. The room was empty, and lay in the half-shadow of the quick coming evening. A touch of gold from the setting sun still lingered on the painted windows, touching to a deeper tone the blues and purples in the classic folds of Clio's drapery. One @@ -3209,7 +3169,7 @@ alarmed and electrified by the sudden rush and tumult which took possession of his being. The blood leapt to his face, he felt it throb in his temples and pulse in his veins, as he realised without further assurance, and before the bowed head was lifted and the pale, cold face -gleamed out of the sombre surroundings, that it was Adèle Lamien who sat +gleamed out of the sombre surroundings, that it was Adèle Lamien who sat there, and that he was unreasonably glad and sorry, repentant and rejoicing, that he should thus have one more interview with her before he should vanish out of her life, as Patricia had already passed from @@ -3351,10 +3311,10 @@ unfulfilled promise and its hope.</p> that held him, and that swaying him against his better self, made him speak from the emotion of the moment.</p> -<p>"Adèle," he said, his voice low and restrained. "Adèle, you have +<p>"Adèle," he said, his voice low and restrained. "Adèle, you have doubtless heard my story; you know that I have been the sport, the plaything of one woman's vanity for all the better years of my life; and -yet I dare to offer you the heart she has scorned. Adèle, will you +yet I dare to offer you the heart she has scorned. Adèle, will you accept it? Will you restore my faith and belief in womanhood; that faith and trust which another woman has so nearly destroyed? Hush, wait one moment before you speak. Yes, I know I am almost a stranger to you, I @@ -3362,7 +3322,7 @@ have seen you but half-a-dozen times; you know but little of me, and that little is not of the best. And, I too, what do I know of you? Nothing, save what Esther was pleased to tell us all concerning you. I realise that your past is seared and crossed by sorrow and grief, but -always, Adèle, always since first I saw you, you have haunted me, you +always, Adèle, always since first I saw you, you have haunted me, you have possessed me, you have laid me under a spell. Break that spell now by saying you will listen to me; by telling me that at last, however late in life, my faith, my belief, my trust shall not be given in vain."</p> @@ -3377,7 +3337,7 @@ her voice fell dull and cold when she spoke.</p> <p>"You proffer a strange request, Mr. Tremain, and one not easy of reply. Is it possible you can be in earnest? Have you not heard my story? Has not the whole of Madame Newbold's world become cognisant of its -details? Do you not know that Adèle Lamien is a woman on whom rests the +details? Do you not know that Adèle Lamien is a woman on whom rests the blight of suspicion, if not of guilt? A woman whose life has been one of no common misery. Do you realise what it means to be suspected of crime, branded as a fugitive, an outcast? Can you gauge the depths of misery @@ -3389,7 +3349,7 @@ You, Philip Tremain! Ah, do you not know I would give my very heart's happiness if I might so listen? No, no; that is not what I mean. You are mad, Mr. Tremain, mad with the desire born of a moment's passion."</p> -<p>"I am not mad, Adèle," he urged. "I ask you again to listen to me, and I +<p>"I am not mad, Adèle," he urged. "I ask you again to listen to me, and I tell you again that I neither care nor wish to know more of your past than you desire to tell me. Cannot we forget that, cannot I make for you a future that shall outlive your past? Nay, wait one moment, there is @@ -3403,7 +3363,7 @@ you take from me all resistance, all desire to resist."</p> women do not so easily break the bonds that have held us for so long. Suppose I were to take you at your word, suppose I were to listen to you, to your own undoing? What would be the outcome of it? I, a woman, -Adèle Lamien, who perchance has looked shame in the face, who may have +Adèle Lamien, who perchance has looked shame in the face, who may have swept the by-ways of wickedness with her skirts, I to demand of you this sacrifice, and for what? That you may hear my name spoken in whispers and with bated breath; that you may see me pointed at in scorn and @@ -3411,7 +3371,7 @@ derision; that never may you look at me, never see my face, without the bitter memory of my buried past rising up between us. No, this may not be; you have loved before, it is not love you feel now, it is resentment, disappointment, anger. Put by your fancy of the hour, Mr. -Tremain, and let Adèle Lamien fade out of your life even as she has come +Tremain, and let Adèle Lamien fade out of your life even as she has come into it, an accident only. Do you not remember the fable and fate of the poor Cigale?</p> @@ -3445,7 +3405,7 @@ rejoiced in the freedom she forced back upon him?</p> against the deeper tones of shadow, her pale face alone showing in the gloom.</p> -<p>"You scarcely give me a choice, Adèle," he said; "and yet how is it +<p>"You scarcely give me a choice, Adèle," he said; "and yet how is it possible for me to accept your decision?"</p> <p>His words were followed by a light laugh; a chord struck sharply, and @@ -3457,7 +3417,7 @@ so familiar and yet so incongruous?</p> and yet—ah, Philip—perhaps it would be wiser for us both could I but yield."</p> -<p>"Then listen, I entreat, Adèle," he cried, impetuously, "do not make +<p>"Then listen, I entreat, Adèle," he cried, impetuously, "do not make your decision a final one; leave it open as a possibility for future consideration. Do not let me ask in vain; only say that you will think twice before you refuse me definitely. Do I ask too much?"</p> @@ -3478,7 +3438,7 @@ had held and controlled him throughout their interview, but he was too late. He was conscious of a light silken rustle, a low laugh, a hand laid for a moment on his, and then he was alone.</p> -<p>As Mdlle. Lamien drew the <i>portières</i> behind her, two figures crept back +<p>As Mdlle. Lamien drew the <i>portières</i> behind her, two figures crept back into the obscurity of the room beyond, and as she passed swiftly on and out into the hall, a whisper in a woman's voice echoed across the shadows:</p> @@ -3629,7 +3589,7 @@ the subtle illusive resemblance of Mdlle. Lamien to another some one, equally shadowy and unreal, he would be met with an incredulous smile, and a suggestion that since he could urge no stronger reason than that of a chance likeness, why need he hesitate to <i>exploiter</i> his delusion? -Or why choose Adèle Lamien's negative unreality, in place of Patricia +Or why choose Adèle Lamien's negative unreality, in place of Patricia Hildreth's positive personality?</p> <p>It would be vain also to remind Esther that not only had Patricia twice @@ -3637,7 +3597,7 @@ deliberately refused him in words, but by open raillery and covert mockery had emphasized those refusals, more times than his pride cared to count. No, Esther would be convinced by none of these things; it was worse than hopeless to expect it of her, and therefore worse than -useless to appeal to her. In selecting Adèle Lamien for his future wife, +useless to appeal to her. In selecting Adèle Lamien for his future wife, he had cut himself adrift from his own life, and from the close sympathy and intimacy of those few friends whose affection had made existence worth living.</p> @@ -3729,14 +3689,14 @@ paper.</p> York, and re-established his locale in that quiet but eminently aristocratic hotel, which has for years been a sort of Mecca to European wanderers, who finding life on the plan of the ordinary huge American -caravansary, too public and <i>en évidence</i>, have sought with thankfulness +caravansary, too public and <i>en évidence</i>, have sought with thankfulness the more retired existence of this favoured resort.</p> <p>Most people object to that process of public cleansing usually regarded as the attribute of vulgarity; but one need not be vulgar to object to consuming one's roast beef and port wine under the public eye. It is not a pleasant sensation to come to look upon one's self as only an atom -in the great scheme of a <i>table d'hôte</i>; one loses one's identity at +in the great scheme of a <i>table d'hôte</i>; one loses one's identity at such times, and with the loss of identity goes also one's self-respect. If you wish to retain your dignity in your own eyes and in the eyes of your world, keep yourself to yourself; and, above all, do your eating @@ -3874,7 +3834,7 @@ who serves Russia must be prepared to find her not only suspicious, but ungrateful; it is your high privilege, Vladimir, to be counted among the most loyal of her servitors; but even to you may come the bitter lesson, that trifling with her decrees is followed by swift and sure punishment. -The sworn presence of the woman, Adèle Lamien, in Petersburg, to which +The sworn presence of the woman, Adèle Lamien, in Petersburg, to which Tolskoi has given his oath, but which, as yet, we have been unable to verify, greatly complicates your position, since the Chancellerie knows that it was to find her you undertook your present mission. If, in the @@ -3912,7 +3872,7 @@ Mellikoff; and, from the moment the sullen Italian entered his service, Vladimir felt his evil star had arisen, and his evil hour arrived.</p> <p>That Tolskoi should have been the one to swear to the actual presence of -Adèle Lamien, or Lallovich, in Petersburg, when he—Mellikoff—was +Adèle Lamien, or Lallovich, in Petersburg, when he—Mellikoff—was hunting her down in America, troubled him but little. Firm in his own belief, and secure of his ultimate success, he paid small heed to a chance likeness that might easily have deceived so gay and volatile a @@ -4016,7 +3976,7 @@ detain you longer than is absolutely necessary, though, were I to consult my pleasure, I would willingly lengthen the visit of one for whom I entertain such sentiments of respectful admiration. However, since we cannot consult inclination, let us proceed to duty. What news -have you to give me of our <i>dramatis personæ</i>? Let us commence with +have you to give me of our <i>dramatis personæ</i>? Let us commence with Philip Tremain."</p> <p>At the mention of this name the girl's white face paled perceptibly, and @@ -4077,11 +4037,11 @@ and I can give you no clue to his possible destination."</p> <p>"It matters but very little," replied Vladimir. "When his presence is required, the orbit of his destiny will swing round to us again. We can dismiss him for the present, and be thankful he has so opportunely -vanished into space. And of her, mademoiselle, of Adèle Lamien, as it is +vanished into space. And of her, mademoiselle, of Adèle Lamien, as it is wisest still to call her, since even walls have ears?"</p> <p>"You are over-prudent, Count Mellikoff, surely. Still, perhaps it is as -well to keep up the farce to the end. Of Adèle Lamien's escape there is +well to keep up the farce to the end. Of Adèle Lamien's escape there is no fear. She is absolutely in our power; I know her every movement, her daily avocations; I can put my hand upon her at any moment. She is as unsuspicious and ignorant of the net closing so securely about her, as @@ -4154,7 +4114,7 @@ weigh their value, or count their cost.</p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <h2><a name="CHAPTER_XIII" id="CHAPTER_XIII"></a>CHAPTER XIII.</h2> -<h3>THÉ ANGLAIS.</h3> +<h3>THÉ ANGLAIS.</h3> <p>Ivor Tolskoi did not see Mdlle. Naundorff again for several weeks.</p> @@ -4183,7 +4143,7 @@ of place in the large, formal, mirror-hung apartment.</p> <p>"It is delightful to see you, <i>mon cher</i>," lisped the Countess in her high voice, looking at him languishingly; "it is ages, eternities, -centuries, since you last honoured one of my <i>thés anglais</i> with your +centuries, since you last honoured one of my <i>thés anglais</i> with your presence. Positively I believe you have not before seen my newest importation from that land of fogs and delights. Behold, this is my very last!" and she pointed gaily to the little table. "I assure you it is @@ -4226,7 +4186,7 @@ from the Petropavlovsk inspection looking like a ghost, and scarcely able to render her light services to the Tsarina, during the evening. Were the horrors of the Fortress so very pronounced, <i>mon cher</i>? You will have to answer to Count Vladimir, you know, if on his return he -finds his <i>fiancée</i> changed. Already Petersburg rings with your openly +finds his <i>fiancée</i> changed. Already Petersburg rings with your openly displayed admiration for her cold beauty."</p> <p>She laughed as she concluded, and got up slowly from her low chair. Ivor @@ -4239,7 +4199,7 @@ he said, deliberately, "when he returns."</p> whisper there, a smile, a nod, a gesture, set afloat the rumour that society might look for another highly-spiced scandal, as soon as Count Mellikoff returned, for Ivor Tolskoi, not content with stealing away his -<i>fiancée's</i> allegiance, intended to challenge him as well.</p> +<i>fiancée's</i> allegiance, intended to challenge him as well.</p> <p>Wasn't it quite dreadful? Ah, yes, but very romantic! added the little Countess, to whom intrigue and scandal were as the breath of her @@ -4267,7 +4227,7 @@ laughed.</p> have even a more dramatic <i>esclandre</i> than the Stevan Lallovich affair. By the way, Ivor, what news is afloat concerning Count Vladimir, and his search for the missing woman? Oh, yes, you see it is no secret to me, -the reason of his departure <i>là-bas</i>."</p> +the reason of his departure <i>là -bas</i>."</p> <p>With which vague and descriptive term and a gesture equally disdainful, the Countess indicated the broad continent of America. To her @@ -4291,7 +4251,7 @@ enemy, and Ivor Tolskoi means to steal from him not only his sweetheart, but his reputation."</p> <p>Then she laughed a little as she turned gaily back to her gipsy-table, -and her <i>thé à l'anglaise</i>.</p> +and her <i>thé à l'anglaise</i>.</p> <p>Meantime Tolskoi on leaving the Palace Vera, turned his steps towards the Boulevard de Cavalerio, in the direction of his own apartments. His @@ -4334,7 +4294,7 @@ rule him as an accepted suitor.</p> strengthened, he determined to hesitate at nothing—no duplicity, no falsehood—if by it he could awaken suspicion in her mind, and so gain time for the perfecting of his own ends. Mellikoff's prolonged absence, -and the unexpected meeting with Adèle Lamien in St. Isaac's, gave him +and the unexpected meeting with Adèle Lamien in St. Isaac's, gave him ample basis upon which to work, and furnished him with a plan of attack, with so much of possible truth in it as to carry instant conviction to Olga's mind.</p> @@ -4380,7 +4340,7 @@ gay capital from its long frost-bitten sleep.</p> <p>Political affairs also held the Emperor, whose presence in the metropolis was considered by his ministers to be a necessity; therefore, when Ivor shook off the dust of many days, travel and alighted from his -<i>coupé</i> at the railway terminus, it was to see the familiar standard +<i>coupé</i> at the railway terminus, it was to see the familiar standard floating from the Winter Palace, and the tall lance-like spire of Petropavlovsk rising above the creeping waters of the Neva, and piercing the vivid blue of the sky beyond. The Troitski bridge and Boulevard-park @@ -4459,20 +4419,20 @@ his, and set his feet in the downward path of deterioration.</p> <p>After a short interval of silence, Patouchki turned towards him with his old imperiousness of manner, and said, abruptly:</p> -<p>"About this woman, Tolskoi, this Adèle Lamien, whom you avow you saw. So +<p>"About this woman, Tolskoi, this Adèle Lamien, whom you avow you saw. So far we have been unable to obtain any trace of her here, or learn anything concerning her movements; while on the other hand Count Mellikoff sends repeated messages of confidence as to his assured success, and the infallibility of his approaching <i>coup de main</i>. So after all, my dear Ivor, you must have been the victim of a delusion. It -is impossible for Adèle Lamien to be in Petersburg without the +is impossible for Adèle Lamien to be in Petersburg without the Chancellerie's knowledge."</p> -<p>"I was not mistaken, chief," replied Ivor, quietly. "I saw Adèle +<p>"I was not mistaken, chief," replied Ivor, quietly. "I saw Adèle Lallovich with my own eyes. Hers is not a face to be easily mistaken, and I would rather trust to my own instincts, than to Count Mellikoff's written assertions. Answer me one question, chief: has Vladimir -Mellikoff ever, to your knowledge, seen Adèle Lallovich?"</p> +Mellikoff ever, to your knowledge, seen Adèle Lallovich?"</p> <p>"Really, Tolskoi, that is a strange question," answered Patouchki; "frankly, I have never had occasion to ask him. The woman's face was @@ -4483,7 +4443,7 @@ mistress were numerous."</p> <p>"Pardon me, chief, if I differ from you on one or two points," replied Ivor, with unwonted gravity. "In the first place, you must admit that -Stevan Lallovich did not for some time regard Adèle Lamien in the light +Stevan Lallovich did not for some time regard Adèle Lamien in the light of a mistress. He married her, remember, according to the ceremonies of the Church of Rome, and it was not until his passion for her grew cold, that he sought Imperial interference. He kept her exclusively at his @@ -4496,7 +4456,7 @@ to her. <i>We</i> know how sudden was the Imperial ukase, and how little prepared she must have been for it, was shown by the tragic vengeance that overtook him. You understand then, chief, why I prefer to trust to my own instincts rather than to Count Mellikoff's assertions. I did once -see Adèle Lallovich in her happier days, and I am not likely to mistake +see Adèle Lallovich in her happier days, and I am not likely to mistake her face now, even though disfigured by shame and crime."</p> <p>Patouchki had listened attentively to Tolskoi's remarks; he replied to @@ -4509,7 +4469,7 @@ experience that the last evidence to build upon in such a quest is personal appearance. It needs but the adjuncts of paint, powder, and a wig, to deceive even Lucifer himself. No, no, that troubles me but little; what is more of an anxiety is my inability to trace in any way -the accomplice who first assisted Adèle Lamien out of Russia, and who +the accomplice who first assisted Adèle Lamien out of Russia, and who now—placing credence upon your words—has accomplished her return. Could I but put my hand on that accomplice, I would soon unearth the criminal."</p> @@ -4532,7 +4492,7 @@ United States, whither the woman, according to trustworthy evidence, was supposed to have flown. Two months elapse, and nothing is discovered or revealed; meantime, you receive satisfactory, if vague, reports from Count Mellikoff, and the Chancellerie is lulled to inaction for the time -being. At the end of March, I meet Adèle Lallovich face to face in the +being. At the end of March, I meet Adèle Lallovich face to face in the heart of Petersburg, where she has arrived without the knowledge of the Chancellerie, or its agents. That is my problem, chief; now to its solution. The same powerful influence—whose word was law, whose will @@ -4571,7 +4531,7 @@ flight, than he who had helped her to her revenge? Self-preservation would render this shielding power compulsory, where she was concerned; for, once she fell into the hands of the Chancellerie, not her life only, but his, would be the forfeit. I have no doubt, chief, that he who -helped Adèle Lallovich across our frontier, has conveyed her back +helped Adèle Lallovich across our frontier, has conveyed her back again, and—for a reason."</p> <p>Tolskoi, as he finished, walked slowly across the room and back again, @@ -4584,7 +4544,7 @@ usual harsh tones.</p> <p>"I suspect no one, chief," answered the young man, his blue eyes flashing coldly. "I would only suggest that it is a strange coincidence -at least, that shortly after Count Mellikoff's arrival in America, Adèle +at least, that shortly after Count Mellikoff's arrival in America, Adèle Lallovich should reappear in Petersburg."</p> <p>He said no more, but turning abruptly, walked back to his desk.</p> @@ -4836,7 +4796,7 @@ and go of its restless life. The streets were all alight, the open windows of hotels and restaurants displaying brightly dressed groups within, to whom the chief aim of existence for the hour was apparently, the excellence of a favourite ice, or the proper quality of the -champagne <i>frappé</i>. Along the side-walks a varied crowd was constantly +champagne <i>frappé</i>. Along the side-walks a varied crowd was constantly passing; shop-girls mostly, in large hats and pretty frocks, whose tired faces were flushed and eager, or pale and weary, according as they walked alone, or kept company with some smart young male assistant. @@ -4854,7 +4814,7 @@ but feel how dreary and un-homelike was such a return. He had not telegraphed word of his arrival, and so found himself the sole occupant of the dark building; his servant and the care-taker were evidently enjoying life abroad this fine evening, and apparently the other -<i>habitués</i> of the place were similarly employed.</p> +<i>habitués</i> of the place were similarly employed.</p> <p>He threw open the door of his sitting-room and entered; the room was in semi-darkness, the only light being a reflected one from the street @@ -5125,388 +5085,6 @@ away into eternity within the narrow confines of that solitary chamber.</p> <p class="center">CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS, CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS.</p> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Miss Hildreth, Volume 2 of 3, by -Augusta de Grasse Stevens - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MISS HILDRETH, VOLUME 2 OF 3 *** - -***** This file should be named 40432-h.htm or 40432-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/0/4/3/40432/ - -Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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