Suddenly Julies face flushed, and she uttered an exclamation. There were tears in the girls voicehe looked at her, and thought that he saw tears beneath her lowered eyelidstears caused not so much by the disappointment as by one of the troubles of early youth, a secret easily guessed by an old father. Her father shuddered at the selfish speech. Moser knew nothing of any valuable jewellery, but it had been remarked by the servants that the heavy trunk in the lady She was still handsome and bore every sign of having in her youth been a very lovely woman. She had been much liked by all who met her. Lady Frances, as he informed me, had stayed there for several weeks. Two days later found me at the Hotel National at Lausanne, where I received every courtesy at the hands of Moser, the well-known manager. Long, rather than tall, narrow, rather than thin, his figure bony, his skull enormous and very hairy, one recognized in his whole interminable person one of those worthy savants, with gold spectacles, good and inoffensive beings, destined to remain great children all their lives, and to finish very old, like centenaries who would die at nurse. But, notwithstanding his fifty years, it would not have been prudent to let him go out alone. This cousin was a worthy man, about fifty years of age.
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