December Love by Robert Smythe Hichens
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Sellingworth's.
"I shall persist until I get you over to Paris," she said. "I do want you to see my apartment, and my bronzes--particularly my bronzes. When were you last in Paris?" "Passing through or staying--do you mean?" "Staying." Lady Sellingworth was silent for an instant, and Craven saw the half sad, half mocking expression in her eyes. "I haven't stayed in Paris for ten years," she said. She glanced at Sir Seymour, who slightly bent his curly head as if in assent. "It's almost incredible, isn't it, Mr. Craven?" said Miss Van Tuyn. "So unlike the man who expressed a wish to be buried in Paris." Craven remembered at that moment Braybrooke's remark in the club that Lady Sellingworth's jewelry were stolen in Paris at the Gare du Nord ten years ago. Did Miss Van Tuyn know about that? He wondered as he murmured something non-committal. Miss Van Tuyn now tried to extract a word of honour promise from Lady Sellingworth to visit her in Paris, where, it seemed, she lived very independently with a _dame de compagnie_, who was always in one room with a cold reading the novels of Paul Bourget. ("Bourget keeps on |
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