with its gradual little upward curve is and then her mouth � there never was a prettier mouth the lips curl backward so finely eh think so i cannot endure that sort of mouth it looks so self complacent as if it knew its own beauty � the curves are too immovable i like a mouth that more for my part i think her odious said a it is wonderful what unpleasant girls get into who are these does anybody know them they are quite i have dined with them several times at the the is english miss calls her cousin the girl herself is thoroughly well bred and as clever as possible dear me and the baron a very good furniture picture your is always at the table said i fancy she has taught the girl to oh the old woman plays a very sober game drops a ten piece here and there the girl is more headlong but it is only a book i � the spoiled child i hear she has lost all her to day are they rich who knows ah who knows who knows that about anybody said mr moving oflf to join the the remark that wound her neck about more than usual this evening was true but it was not that she might carry out the serpent idea more completely it was that she watched for any chance of seeing so that she might inquire about this stranger under whose measuring gaze she was still at last her opportunity came mr you know everybody said not too eagerly rather with a certain languor of utterance which she sometimes gave to her clear who is that near the door v there are half a dozen near the door do you mean that old in the george the fourth wig no no the dark haired young man on the right with the dreadful expression dreadful do you call it i think he is an uncommonly fine fellow but who is he he is lately come to our hotel with sir daniel sir yes do you know him no coloured slightly he has a place near us but he never comes to it what did you say was the name of that gentleman near the door � mr what a delightful name is he an englishman yes he is reported to be closely related to the you are interested in him yes i think he is not like young men in general and you don t admire young men in general not in the least i always know what they will say i can t at all guess what this mr would say what does he say nothing chiefly i sat with his party for a good hour last night on the terrace and he never spoke � and was not smoking he looked bored another reason why should like to know him i am always bored i should think he would be charmed to have an introduction shall i bring it about will you allow it book i � spoiled child why not � since he is related to sir it is a new of yours to be always bored continued madame von when mr had moved away until now you have always seemed eager about something from morning till night that is just because i am bored to death if i am to leave off play i must break my arm or my collar bone i must make something happen unless you will go into and take me up the perhaps this mr s acquaintance will do instead of the perhaps but did not make s acquaintance on this occasion mr did not succeed in bringing him up to her that evening and when she re entered her own room she found a letter recalling her home vol l b chapter ii man a secret as two that he may me with his meeting eyes like one who a at bay this was the letter found on her table � dearest child � i have been expecting to hear from you for a week in your last you said the thought of going to how could you be so thoughtless as to leave me in uncertainty about your address i am in the greatest anxiety lest this should not reach you in any case you were to come home at the end of september and i must now entreat you to return as quickly as possible for if you spent all your money it would be out of my power to send you any more and you must not borrow of the for i could not repay them this is the sad truth my child � i wish i could prepare you for book i � the spoiled child it better � but a dreadful calamity has befallen us all you know nothing about business and will not understand it but and co have failed for a million and we are totally ruined � your aunt as well as i only that your uncle has his so that by putting down their carriage and getting interest for the boys the family can go on all the property our poor father saved for us goes to pay the there is nothing i can call my own it is better you should know this at once though it my heart to have to tell it of course we cannot help thinking what a pity it was that you went away just when you did but i shall never reproach you my dear child i would save you from all trouble if i could on your way home you will have time to prepare yourself for the change you will find we shall perhaps leave at once for we hope that mr who wanted it before may be ready to take it oflf my hands of course we cannot go to the � there is not a 