Then the crisis, my momentary alarm, has struck me as blowing over, and I've felt I could wait for some luck like this, which would sooner or later come." Her companion, however, appeared to leave the luck so on her hands that she could only snatch up, to cover its nudity, the next handsomest assumption.

"I see you cleverly guess that what I've been worried about is the effect on Mrs.Brook of the loss of her dear Mitchy.

If you've not at all events had your own impression of this effect, isn't that only because these last months you've seen so little of her?
I'VE seen," said the Duchess, "enough and to spare." She waited as if for her vision, on this, to be flashed back at her, but the only result of her speech was that her friend looked hard at somebody else.
It was just this symptom indeed that perhaps sufficed her, for in a minute she was again afloat.

"Things have turned out so much as I desire them that I should really feel wicked not to have a humble heart.
There's a quarter indeed," she added with a noble unction, "to which I don't fear to say for myself that no day and no night pass without my showing it.

However, you English, I know, don't like one to speak of one's religion.