Excerpt: ... said the baroness, lightly. "What is it?" "It is," he explained, after a pause, "that I have had so little to do with women." "Except me, mon cousin," said the baroness, coming nearer to the writing-table. "Except you, ma cousine," he answered, turning in his chair and taking her hand. He glanced up at her with eyes that would appear to the ordinary British mind to express a passionate devotion, eminently French and thrilling and terrible, but which really reflected only a very honest and brotherly affection. ...
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Excerpt: ... said the baroness, lightly. "What is it?" "It is," he explained, after a pause, "that I have had so little to do with women." "Except me, mon cousin," said the baroness, coming nearer to the writing-table. "Except you, ma cousine," he answered, turning in his chair and taking her hand. He glanced up at her with eyes that would appear to the ordinary British mind to express a passionate devotion, eminently French and thrilling and terrible, but which really reflected only a very honest and brotherly affection. For a Frenchman never hates or loves as much as he thinks he does. "Well," said the baroness, practically, "what is it?" "At the club," explained Lory, "I found a letter and a telegram from Corsica." "Both from Denise?" asked the baroness, rather bluntly. "Both from Mademoiselle Lange. See how things hinge upon a trifling chance-how much, we cannot tell! I happened to open the telegram first, and it told me to return the letter unopened." As he spoke he handed her the grey sheet upon which were pasted the narrow blue paper ribbons bearing the text. The baroness read the message slowly and carefully. She glanced over the paper, down at his head, with a little wise smile full of contempt for his limited male understanding. "And the letter?" she inquired. He showed her a sealed envelope addressed by himself to Denise at Perucca. She took it up and turned it over slowly. It was stamped and ready for the post. She then threw it down with a short laugh. "I was thinking," she explained, "of the difference between men and women. A woman would have filled a cup with boiling water and laid that letter upon it. It is quite easy. Why, we were taught it at the convent school! You could have opened the letter and read it, and then closed it again and returned it. By that simple subterfuge you would have known the contents, and would still have had the credit for doing as you were told. And I think three women out of five would have done it, and the whole...
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