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You're dead against Nature, old Colney. That is to carry the flag of Liberty. By clipping a limb! Victor overcame the Pessimist in his own royal cranium-Court. He entertained a pronounced dissension with bachelors pretending to independence. And it helped the plea in his own excuse, as Colney pointed out to the son of Nature. That, he had to admit, was true. He charged it upon Mrs.
Preferring Fenellan's easy humour to Colney's acid, he was nevertheless braced by the latter's antidote to Dudley, while reserving his entire opposition in the abstract. For Victor Radnor and Colney Durance were the Optimist and Pessimist of their society. They might have headed those tribes in the country.
After her interview with Dudley, there had been a swoon at home; and her maid, sworn to secrecy, willingly spared a tender-hearted husband so good a master. Little acts of kindness were not beyond the range of Colney Durance, and he ran down to Brighton, to give the exiled Nesta some taste of her friendly London circle. The Duvidney ladies knew that the dreaded gentleman had a regard for the girl.
He informed Victor, as a probe, that the business of the Life Insurance was at periods 'fearfully necrological! Inexplicably, he was not invited. Did it mean, that he was growing dull? He looked inside instead of out, and lost the clue. His behaviour on the evening of the departure showed plainly what would have befallen Mr. Sowerby on the expedition, had not he as well as Colney been excluded.
Luncheon was a merry meal, with Victor and Nataly for host and hostess; Fenellan, Colney Durance, and Lady Grace Halley for the talkers. A gusty bosom of sleet overhung the dome, rattled on it, and rolling Westward, became a radiant mountain-land, partly worthy of Victor's phrase: 'A range of Swiss Alps in air. 'With periwigs Louis Quatorze for peaks, Colney added.
'It is not unusual, said Colney. At eleven o'clock he was in London, and Nesta rode beside Mrs. Marsett amid the troop. A South-easterly wind blew the waters to shifty goldleaf prints of brilliance under the sun. 'I took a liberty this morning, I called you "Dear" this morning, the lady said. 'It's what I feel, only I have no right to blurt out everything I feel, and I was ashamed.
Nesta reminded him of certain verses he had written to celebrate her visit to the place when she was a child: "And then along the pier we sped, And there we saw a Whale He seemed to have a Normous Head, And not a bit of Tail!" 'Manifestly a foreigner to our shores, where the exactly inverse condition rules, Colney said.
Colney Durance allured them to the quag's edge and plunged them in it, to writhe patriotically; and although it may be said, that they felt their situation less than did he the venom they sprang in his blood, he was cruel; he caused discomfort.
'Across the counter of Boyle and Luckwort, the lady's chemists. I called the day before yesterday, after you were here at our last Board Meeting. 'The Themison? 'The great Dr. Themison; who kills you kindlier than most, and is much in request for it. 'There's one of your echoes of Colney! Victor cried. 'One gets dead sick of that worn-out old jibeing at doctors.
They must not blame me when the smash comes. I put the thing before the Admiralty, and I could have made a board school understand it in half the time. Such letters, Munro! Colney Hatch on blue paper. When the war comes, and I show those letters, somebody will be hanged. Questions about this questions about that. At last they asked me what I proposed to fasten my magnet to.
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