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CHAPTER VIII — CICCIO
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Madame did not pick up her spirits, after her cold. For two days she lay in bed, attended by Mrs. Rollings and Alvina and the young men. But she was most careful never to give any room for scandal. The young men might not approach her save in the presence of some third party. And then it was strictly1 a visit of ceremony or business.
"Oh, your Woodhouse, how glad I shall be when I have left it," she said to Alvina. "I feel it is unlucky for me."
"Do you?" said Alvina. "But if you'd had this bad cold in some places, you might have been much worse, don't you think."
"Oh my dear!" cried Madame. "Do you think I could confuse you in my dislike of this Woodhouse? Oh no! You are not Woodhouse. On the contrary, I think it is unkind for you also, this place. You look—also—what shall I say—thin, not very happy."
It was a note of interrogation.
"I'm sure I dislike Woodhouse much more than you can," replied Alvina.
"I am sure. Yes! I am sure. I see it. Why don't you go away? Why don't you marry?"
"Nobody wants to marry me," said Alvina.
"How!" she exclaimed. "How don't they? You are not bad looking, only a little too thin—too haggard—"
She watched Alvina. Alvina laughed uncomfortably.
"Is there nobody?" persisted Madame.
"Not now," said Alvina. "Absolutely nobody." She looked with a confused laugh into Madame's strict black eyes. "You see I didn't care for the Woodhouse young men, either. I couldn't."
Madame nodded slowly up and down. A secret satisfaction came over her pallid4, waxy5 countenance6, in which her black eyes were like twin swift extraneous
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