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CHAPTER XXVIII.
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Katherine Massarene noticed that her father paired early in the season and was ordered by his physician to take the waters of Ems. But she made no remark on the fact, and her mother said, quite unsuspiciously, to her husband on his departure, “If you see the Duchess there, William, give her my love. She was looking worried and worn when she left.” She was always fascinated by that lovely apparition1 which had seemed to her so splendid an incarnation of aristocracy and grace, delicious insolence2 and incomparable sorcery.
“Them German waters are wonderful curers,” she said to her daughter. “They’re good for the Duchess’s nerves, and your father’s rheumatics.”
Katherine said nothing. Was her mother as simple as she seemed? she wondered. Herself, in her own despite, she felt a curious reluctant pity for Hurstmanceaux’s sister; such pity as she might have felt if she had seen a lithe4 young jaguar5 crushed by the hirsute6 strength of a baboon7. The jaguar is itself cruel, stealthy, pitiless, but still—the duel8 is unequal, and is decided9 by sheer brutal10 savage11 force.
“Somehow or other,” she thought, “my father has frightened her and cowed her; she looks as racing13 mares do when they come in off the
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reconciliation
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contrition
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amazement
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novice
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frets
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resentment
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