"
But Josephine St. Auban could make no reply. Her face was hidden
in her hands, and only her heaving shoulders showed the sudden
emotion which had swept upon her overstrained soul. At last she
felt a gentle hand touch hers. She raised her head as, one after
another, these men approached, each extending his hand to her and
bowing in salutation. Presently the room was deserted.
In the hall the gentleman from Kentucky passed his arm within that
of a tall man, obviously from the North.
"I have just got word within the week of the arrival of a daughter
at my own home out in Kentucky," said he. "I am in a position to
understand all and several the statements in Exhibit A, my dear
Sir! 'The darling!'
"But what a woman,--what a woman!" he went on meditatively. "Sir,
if I were a single man, as I am a married man, I should offer to
her, upon the spot, a union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!"
CHAPTER XXIX
IN OLD ST. GENEVIEVE
It was the daily custom of Hector to be upon hand at the dock for
the landing of each and every steamer which touched at St.
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