Only I do hate jealousy, Mr. Finn." Then Mrs. Bonteen took
her leave, kissing her dear friend, Madame Goesler, and simply bowing
to Phineas.
"What a detestable woman!" said Phineas.
"I know of old that you don't love her."
"I don't believe that you love her a bit better than I do, and yet
you kiss her."
"Hardly that, Mr. Finn. There has come up a fashion for ladies to
pretend to be very loving, and so they put their faces together. Two
hundred years ago ladies and gentlemen did the same thing with just
as little regard for each other. Fashions change, you know."
"That was a change for the worse, certainly, Madame Goesler."
"It wasn't of my doing. So you've had a great victory."
"Yes;--greater than we expected."
"According to Mrs. Bonteen, the chief result to the country will be
that the taxes will be so very safe in her husband's hands! I am sure
she believes that all Parliament has been at work in order that he
might be made a Cabinet Minister. I rather like her for it."
"I don't like her, or her husband.
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