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CHAPTER XV.
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“Elle a du chic1; elle a positivement du chic,” said the Duchesse d’Avit to her friends, in her great astonishment2 at the appearance and manner of the daughter of the house.
“It’s easy to look chic when one’s got as good a figure as she has,” said one of the other ladies, rather crossly. “She does look like a well-bred person, I admit, but I dare say the cloven foot will show in some way or another.”
They all watched for it with curiosity, so far at least as they troubled themselves to notice her at all. But they failed to perceive it. They found that she rode extremely well, and played wonderfully well too, but no one got on with her. She was extraordinarily4 silent, and they could not divine that she held her tongue so obstinately5 because she feared every moment that some stinging word would escape her.
The week seemed to her a year. She could not see the comedy of the thing as Framlingham had advised her to do. She could only resent helplessly, censure6 mutely, despise unavailingly, and suffer secretly. She might have been some doomed7 queen, passing from the prison to the scaffold; and all the incessant8 chatter9 and laughter around her awoke no echo in her; it always sounded to her derisive10, a mockery of the absurdity11 of William Massarene masquerading as a country gentleman. She had read a good deal of philosophy, but she could not practice any. The only tolerable moments of the day or night to her were when she was alone in her own rooms with a stray rough large dog of nondescript breed she had found and adopted.
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tormented
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