Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-19

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 BARON RoNAULT DE PALLIAc tured, frank, carrying an atmosphere of high-class British worldliness, and delicately awakening within her while she was with him sense of her own latent superiority to the institutions of her native land. She liked Mau. burn, too.
 More impressive than either of these, however, was the Baron Ronault de Palliac. Tall, swarthy, saturnine, polished man of all the world, of manners finished, elaborate and ceremonious, she found herself feeling foreign and distinguished in his presence, quite as if she were the heroine of romantic novel, and might at any instant be called upon to assist in royalist intrigues. The baron, to her intuition, nursed secret sorrows. For these she secretly wor- shiped him. It is true that when he dined with her and her mother, which he was frequently gracious enough to do, he ate with heartiness that be. lied this secret sorrow she had i'm. agined. But he was fascinating at all times, with a grace at table not less finished than that. with which he bowed at their meetings and partings. It was not unpleasant to think of basking daily in the shine of that grand manner, even if she did feel friendlier with Milbrey, and more at ease with Mauburn.
 If the truth must be told, Miss Zines was less impressionable than either of the three would have wished. Her heart seemed not easy to reach {; her impulses were not inflammable. Young Milbrey early confded to his family a suspicion that she was sin. gularly hard-headed, and the definite information that she had "a hob. nailed western way" of treating her admirers.
 Mauburn, too, was shrewd enough to see that, while she frankly liked him, he was for some reason less favorite than Baron de Palliac.
 It'll be no easy matter marrying that girl" he told Mrs. Drelmer. She's really a dear. and awfully good fun, but she's not q bit silly, and I dare say she'll marry some chap be- cause she likes him, and not because he's anybody, you know"
 Make her like you," insisted his adviser.
 "on my word, I wish she did. And I'm not so sure, you know, she doesn't fancy that Frenchman. or even young Milbrey."
 'T'll keep you before her." promised Mrs. Drelmer. "and I wish you'd not think you can't win her. 'Tisnt like you"
 Miss Zines accordingly heard that it was such a pity young Milbrey drank so. because his only salvation lay in making a rich marriage, and a young man, nowadays, had to keep fairly sober to accomplish that. Really, Mrs. Drelmer felt sorry for the poor weak fellow. "Good-hearted chap, but he has no character, my dear. so I'm afraid there's no hope for him. He has the soul of a mer- chant tailor, actually. but not the tailor's manhood. Otherwise he'd be above marrying some unsuspecting girl for her money and breaking her heart after marriage. Now, Mauburn is a type so different: honest, unaf. fected, healthy-reaIly he's a man for any girl to be proud of. even If he were not heir to . title-one of the best in all England. and an ornament of the most exclusively correct set; of line, my dear. that is truly great not like that shoddy French nobili. ty, discredited in France. that sends so many of its comie-opera barons here looking for large dovries to pay their gambling debts and put furni. ture in their rattle-trap old chateaux, and keep them in absinthe and their other peculiar diversions. And Msu. burn. you lucky ninx. simply adores you-he's quite mad about you, rsalIyl"
 In spite of Mrs. Drelmer's tvo-edged sword. Miss Bines continued rather more favorable to the line of De Pal lilac. The baron vas % splendid. so gloomy, SO deferentiaL He had the air of laying at her feet. as . rug. the whole glorious history of France And he appeared % veil in the vic. toria when they drove in the park
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