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You may be sure that by now the anger gale had blown itself out, that the madness had passed for both of us; and when I stirred, Richard broke out in a tremulous babblement of thanksgiving for that he had not slain me outright. "I was mad, Jack; as mad as any Bedlamite," he would say. "The devil whispered me that you would fight; that you wanted but a decent excuse to thrust me out of the way.
It did not take Monica long to find an obliging shopkeeper; the first to whom she applied a decent woman behind a counter which displayed newspapers, tobacco, and fancy articles willingly accepted the commission. She came out of the shop with flushed cheeks. Another step in shameful descent yet it had the result of strengthening once more her emotions favourable to Bevis.
She was softly singing to herself one of the melodies which she had been playing earlier in the evening. Miss Halcombe waited till she had passed out of sight again, and then went on with the letter "'Mrs. Catherick is a decent, well-behaved, respectable woman; middle-aged, and with the remains of having been moderately, only moderately, nice-looking.
You won't understand it I know, for to you the world is black and white, and each incident stands by itself. But as a man lives these incidents are interwoven like the links of a chain, each one depending on the others, so that sometimes what appears to be a bad thing is really the only decent thing if one knows the circumstances."
He has only been a friend for fifteen years, and I wouldn't put my hand into the fire for him. Why! he is not decent: he does not live with his wife. He must have mistresses who ruin him; I don't see any other cause for his anxiety. When I am dressing I look through the blinds, and I often see him coming home in the mornings: where from? Nobody knows.
I thought myself a clever woman, but I might as well have tried to gamble with the angels. Why don't you finish it off now make me run away with you?" "It would bore us both," he answered calmly. "Besides, you wouldn't come!" "I should, and you know that I would," she answered. "Everyone expects it of us. I think myself that it would be more decent." He looked at her thoughtfully.
And how did that explain the proposed journey? Dudley went on: "I've only just got time to change my clothes and make myself decent. See you in a day or two. Sorry I can't stay and have a pipe with you and one of our 'hard-times' suppers." He was on the point of disappearing into the inner room, when Max stopped him. "Oh, but you can," said he.
He crowded a little closer, though he knew that this conversation was none of his affair further than that he was interested as any man would be interested in seeing that the young woman received decent treatment. Certainly so far she had not received that, yet neither had the big man said anything to warrant interference by a stranger.
Like most of their kind, their tests of human probity were few and simple: and having discovered that Robin not only played Rugby football, but had on several occasions represented Edinburgh University thereat, they straightway wrote him down a "decent chap" and took the rest of his virtues for granted.
They say women don't know how to write them, but my mother has thoroughly mastered the art of condensation. 'Tired America, hot weather awful, return England with niece, first steamer decent cabin. That's the sort of message we get from her that was the last that came. But there had been another before, which I think contained the first mention of the niece.
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