[Cosmopolis by Paul Bourget]@TWC D-Link bookCosmopolis CHAPTER V 46/66
She found the mother for whom she was suffering so much, wearing, too, a large sun-hat, but a white one with a white veil, beneath which could be seen her fair hair, her sparkling blue eyes and pink-and-white complexion; her form was enveloped in a gown of a material and cut more youthful than her daughter's, while, radiant with delight, she said to Peppino Ardea: "Well, I congratulate you on having made up your mind.
The step shall be taken to-day, and you will be grateful to me all your life!" "Yet," replied the young man, "I understand myself.
I shall regret my decision all the afternoon.
It is true," he added, philosophically, "that I should regret it just as much if I had not made it." "You have guessed that we were talking of Fanny's marriage," said Madame Steno to her daughter several minutes later, when they were seated side by side, like two sisters, in the victoria which was bearing them toward Maitland's studio. "Then," asked the Contessina, "you think it will be arranged ?" "It is arranged," gayly replied Madame Steno.
"I am commissioned to make the proposition....
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