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'I hope you don't think I did it for that reason. The little passage was unnoticed by the rest of the company, who were listening to Lord Borrodaile's contented pronouncement: 'I'm afraid the new-fangled seed falls on barren ground in our old-fashioned gardens pace my charming sister-in-law. Greatorex turned sharply. 'Mrs. Tunbridge! God bless my soul, you don't mean
They sat trying from the accounts of Lord Borrodaile's archæological friends to reconstruct something of that vanished world. It was a game they had played at before, with Etruscan vases and ivories from Ephesus the man bringing to it his learning and his wit, the woman her supple imagination and a passion of interest in the great romance of the Pilgrimage of Man.
Lord Borrodaile's fellow-citizen leaned heavily on one of the stout scrolls of ironwork which, repeated at regular intervals on each side, divided the seat into six compartments. No call for any one to notice such a man there are so many of them in these piping times of peace and prosperity.
And yet' she caught the gratitude away from her voice 'I suppose I should have said something like that, even if I'd been talking to my other neighbour. Borrodaile's look went again from one couple to another, for, as usual in England, the talk was all tête-
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