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She had behaved beautifully--and in beautiful behaviour she was unsurpassed--during the call on Mrs Welland; but Newland knew (and his betrothed doubtless guessed) that all through the visit she and Janey were nervously on the watch for Madame Olenska's possible intrusion; and when they left the house together she had perusta Welland received us alone"

These indications of inward disturbance one a little too far But, as it was against all the rules of their code that the mother and son should ever allude to as upperhts, he simply replied: "Oh, well, there's always a phase of faed, and the sooner it's over the better" At which hisdown frorapes

Her revenge, he felt--her lawful revenge--would be to "draw" Mr Jackson that evening on the Countess Olenska; and, having publicly done his duty as a futurethe lady discussed in private--except that the subject was already beginning to bore him

Mr Jackson had helped himself to a slice of the tepid filet which the mournful butler had handed him with a look as sceptical as his own, and had rejected the mushroom sauce after a scarcely perceptible sniff He looked baffled and hungry, and Archer reflected that he would probably finish his meal on Ellen Olenska

Mr Jackson leaned back in his chair, and glanced up at the candlelit Archers, Newlands and van der Luydens hanging in dark frarandfather Archer loved a good dinner, my dear Newland!" he said, his eyes on the portrait of a plu man in a stock and a blue coat, with a view of a white-columned country-house behind him "Well--well--wellI wonder what he would have said to all these foreign nored the allusion to the ancestral cuisine and Mr Jackson continued with deliberation: "No, she was NOT at the ball"

"Ah--" Mrs Archer murmured, in a tone that implied: "She had that decency"

"Perhaps the Beauforts don't know her," Janey suggested, with her artless ave a faint sip, as if he had been tasting invisible Madeira "Mrs Beaufortup Fifth Avenue this afternoon with him by the whole of New York"