' So I stuck to it to the end, and now
we can be inseparable."
"You may be sure Gordon reasoned it out," said Blanche, while her
husband offered his hand in silence to Captain Lovelock.
"Gordon's reasoning is as fine as other people's feeling!" declared
Bernard, who was conscious of a desire to say something very pleasant to
Gordon, and who did not at all approve of Blanche's little ironical tone
about her husband.
"And Bernard's compliments are better than either," said Gordon,
laughing and taking his seat at table.
"I have been paying him compliments," Blanche went on. "I have been
telling him he looks so brilliant, so blooming--as if something had
happened to him, as if he had inherited a fortune. He must have been
doing something very wicked, and he ought to tell us all about it,
to amuse us. I am sure you are a dreadful Parisian, Mr. Longueville.
Remember that we are three dull, virtuous people, exceedingly bored
with each other's society, and wanting to hear something strange and
exciting. If it 's a little improper, that won't spoil it."
"You certainly are looking uncommonly well," said Gordon, still smiling,
across the table, at his friend. "I see what Blanche means--"
"My dear Gordon, that 's a great event," his wife interposed.
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