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Freddy, appearing through the balcony window, 'till you've seen the children's pictures. Vida's eye had once more fallen on the reproduction of one of the Cretan frescoes with a sudden intensification of interest. 'What is it? Borrodaile asked, looking over her shoulder. Woman-like she offered the man the outermost fringe of her thought.
'Before I got my political education, when I was young and innocent, like this gentleman, who still pins his faith to the Liberals, I, too, hoped great things from them. My friends, it's a frame of mind we outlive! and her friends shrieked with delight. 'Well, it's one way for a girl to amuse herself till she gets married, said Borrodaile.
I went with your daughter to lunch at her Country Club, and they were all discussing the Suffrage! A good dozen! And Sophia well, Sophia came out in a new light. I want you, please, to believe I've never talked to her. 'Oh, said Borrodaile, with an unconscious arrogance, 'Sophia doesn't wait to be talked to. She takes her own line. Politics are a tradition with our women.
Sorry, Ned, I'm busy," he went on, to a man who tried to catch his arm. "See you later, Fred. I'll be in after lunch, Mr. Borrodaile. No, nothing fresh that I know of." Fischer smiled grimly. "Got you into a kind of hornets' nest, eh?" he observed. "It's been like this all the morning," Van Teyl told him. "They believe I know something. Even the newspaper men are tumbling to it.
'I didn't dream she cared so much for that dull cousin of hers! 'Do you think she really does? said Borrodaile, dryly. About Vida's little enterprise on a certain Sunday a few weeks later was an air of elaborate mystery. Yet the expedition was no further than to Trafalgar Square.
Borrodaile, with an accent that for him was almost emotion, emphasized the strangeness to the scholar of having to abandon the old idea of the Greek being the sole flower of Mediterranean civilization.
If she's plain enough, you are impatient. All you see in any woman is her sex. You can't listen. 'Whew! remarked Borrodaile. 'But I must listen I haven't got over being ashamed to find how much this girl can teach me. 'I'm sorry for you that any of Miss Scammell's interesting speech was lost, the chairman was saying.
'One of the most interesting things about our coming back will be to watch Stonor, said Farnborough. 'After all, they said he did very well with his Under Secretaryship under the last Government, didn't they? Again Lady John appealed to the two elder men. 'Oh, yes, said Borrodaile. 'Oh, yes.
I say, because' Vida nodded at Lord Borrodaile 'you must know Ernestine is a beguiler. 'Oh, a beguiler. I didn't suppose 'No, it's against the tradition, I know, but it's true. She herself, however, doesn't seem to realize her beguilingness.
I can now sit down to a supper of roast pork and bottled stout, go to bed directly afterwards, sleep all night, and wake up in the morning without thinking unkind things of anybody not even my relations-in-law! Bless the Kaiser, say I! Borrodaile, what about you? Any complaints?" "Thank you," replied Borrodaile's dry voice; "there are no complaints.
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