Miles?'--and he leads her away before she can go to any one
else. And there--away down there--do you see them? He has compensation,
do you think?"
She drew Nina a little aside, and sang into her ear--
"--Ce soir, as-tu vu
La fille a notre maitre,
D'un air resolu
Guettant a sa fenetre?
Eh bien! qu'en dis tu?
--Je dis que j'ai tout vu,
Mais je n'ai rien cru;
Je l'aime, je l'aime,
Je l'aime quand meme!"
and then she broke into a malicious laugh.
"What are you two conspiring about, now?" Lionel asked--from the bench
on which he had carelessly seated himself, the better to enjoy his
cigar.
"You must know the consequence of doing a good action, Leo," Nina said
to him. "Do you see the black bushes--yonder--and the two figures?
Estelle says it is Miss Burgoyne and the young gentleman who would have
been all alone but that you intercede. Is he not owing a great deal to
you?"
"Well, Nina, if there is any gratitude in woman's bosom, Miss Burgoyne
ought to be indebted to me too. She has got her pretty dear. I dare say
he would have managed to procure a little interview with her, in some
surreptitious way, in any case--I dare say that was his intention in
coming down; but now that he is one of the party, one of the guests, she
can talk to him before every one.
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