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We have not had any that you could call that here, much only a lot of old wicked sort of things, in the autumn, to shoot the pheasants, and play bridge with Mrs. Carruthers. The marvel to me was how they ever killed anything, such antiques they were! Some politicians and ambassadors, and creatures of that sort; and mostly as wicked as could be.
"No," replied the little lawyer, stoutly, "the paragraph is a joke, and if we can find out the author of it, he will be punished." "Serve him right. I told Lady Hamlyn there was some absurd mistake. Very glad to hear it. Good morning." "Mr. Forster, stop one moment!" cried Major Every; "surely this tale of Carruthers stealing a watch is all false?"
Came down in my car, and got summoned for three fines to-morrow." Carruthers laughed. "Come on," he said; and, linking his arm in Jimmie Dale's, turned the corner, and headed west along the cross street. "This is going to make a noise," he continued, a grim note creeping into his voice. "The biggest noise the city has ever heard. I take back all I said about the Gray Seal.
And as I spoke I saw that he gave to me a glance of great curiosity and would have asked a question but at that moment my Uncle, the General Robert, stood beside us. "I present to you the General Carruthers, Secretary of the State of Harpeth, Monsieur the Lieutenant, the Count de Bourdon of the forty-fourth Chasseurs of the Republique of France."
Mackintosh, the eldest daughter, is arriving with her four children. I remember her wedding five years ago. I have never seen her since. She was very tall and thin, and stooped dreadfully, and Mrs. Carruthers said Providence had been very kind in giving her a husband at all. But when Mr. Mackintosh tittuped down the aisle with her, I did not think so. A wee, sandy fellow about up to her shoulder!
"I am not," said Basil, "I love those knights and heroes of old! great men and grand men who were content to ride forth, and to battle unto death for a woman's smile." She raised her radiant eyes to his. "Would you do that much for a woman's smile, Mr. Carruthers?" He paused a moment before speaking, then said: "For one such woman as those men loved, I would."
"I am not cross," I answered. "Only absolutely disgusted." By that time, thank goodness, we had got into the stream of carriages close to the opera-house. Mr. Carruthers, however, seemed hardly to notice this. "Darling," he said, "I will try not to annoy you; but you are so fearfully provoking. I tell you truly, no man would find it easy to keep cool with you."
Lord Robert and I were two puppets, a part I do not like playing. I was angry altogether. She would not have dared to have left me go like this if I had been any one who mattered. Mr. Carruthers got in, and tucked his sable rug round me. I never spoke a word for a long time, and Covent Garden is not far off, I told myself. I can't say why I had a sense of malaise.
I will read William Mainwaring's letters again and again, till from every shadow in the past a voice comes forth, 'The child of your rival, your betrayer, your undoer, stands between the daylight and your son!" Leaving the guilty pair to concert their schemes and indulge their atrocious hopes, we accompany Percival to the hovel occupied by Becky Carruthers.
"Miss Travers is going to teach me things about Italian Madonnas, and I can't keep my attention if there is a third person about." I suppose if Mr. Carruthers had not been a diplomat he would have sworn, but I believe that kind of education makes you able to put your face how you like, so he smiled sweetly and took a chair near. "I shall not leave you, Bob," he said.
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