[Cosmopolis by Paul Bourget]@TWC D-Link bookCosmopolis CHAPTER II 46/47
"I should prefer to have it one rather than the other in that family.
I should reproach myself all my life for not having tried every means." They were in the last room, and Baron Hafner was just fastening the strings of an album of drawings, when the conviction took possession of the young man in a definite manner.
Alba Steno, who still maintained silence, looked at him again with eyes which revealed the struggle of her interest for him and of her wounded pride.
She longed, without doubt, at the moment they were about to separate, to ask him, according to their intimate and charming custom, when they should meet again.
He did not heed her--any more than he did the other pair of eyes which told him to be more prudent, and which were those of the Baron; any more than he did the observation of Madame Gorka, who, having remarked the ill-humor of Alba, was seeking the cause, which she had long since divined was the heart of the young girl; any more than the attitude of Madame Maitland, whose eyes at times shot fire equal to her brother's gentleness.
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