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CHAPTER LI.The Revival of Hattie Starr
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Engrossed in the pleasures and entertainments which Cowperwood’s money was providing, Berenice had until recently given very little thought to her future. Cowperwood had been most liberal. “She is young,” he once said to Mrs. Carter, with an air of disinterested1 liberality, when they were talking about Berenice and her future. “She is an exquisite2. Let her have her day. If she marries well she can pay you back, or me. But give her all she needs now.” And he signed checks with the air of a gardener who is growing a wondrous3 orchid4.
The truth was that Mrs. Carter had become so fond of Berenice as an object of beauty, a prospective5 grande dame6, that she would have sold her soul to see her well placed; and as the money to provide the dresses, setting, equipage had to come from somewhere, she had placed her spirit in subjection to Cowperwood and pretended not to see the compromising position in which she was placing all that was near and dear to her.
“Oh, you’re so good,” she more than once said to him a mist of gratitude7 commingled8 with joy in her eyes. “I would never have believed it of any one. But Bevy9—”
“An esthete is an esthete,” Cowperwood replied. “They are rare enough. I like to see a spirit as fine as hers move untroubled. She will make her way.”
Seeing Lieutenant10 Braxmar in the foreground of Berenice’s affairs, Mrs. Carter was foolish enough to
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