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Scarcely on my account. She can hardly expect Dion at so late an hour. Even while I am rejoicing in the sight of her beauty, some new misfortune may be impending." So ran the current of her thoughts while her daughter was gaily describing what she had witnessed at her grandfather's.
But when, with a precise and deliberately cold acuteness, Sir John turned to the evidence adverse to his client, and began to tear it to shreds, they stared less, frowned, and showed by their expressions their efforts to be legal. As soon as Sir John had finished his speech, the Court rose for the luncheon interval. "Are you going out?" said Mrs. Chetwinde to Dion.
"You haven't been in court before to-day, have you?" she said to Dion. "No." "Why did you come to-day?" "Well, I " He hesitated. "I promised Mr. Daventry to come to-day." "That was it!" said Mrs. Clarke, and she looked out of the window. Dion felt rather uncomfortable as he spoke to Mrs. Chetwinde and left further conversation with Mrs.
She was quite close to Dion now, and he was aware of a strange faint perfume which reminded him of Stamboul; and he realized here in Lowndes Square that Stamboul was genuinely fascinating, was much more fascinating than he had realized when he was in it. Mrs. Clarke passed him without looking at him, and he felt sure quite unconscious of his nearness to her.
Dion gazed after her litter a short time, then passed his hand through his waving brown hair, walked swiftly to the shore and, without pausing long to choose, sprang into one of the boats which were rented for pleasure voyages. Ordering the sailors who were preparing to accompany him to remain on shore, he stretched the sail with a practised hand, and ran out towards the mouth of the harbour.
And then quickly, before he could say anything, she began to recall the pleasant details of their life in Westminster, dwelling upon every household joy, and everything that though "Londony" had been delightful. Having conquered, with an effort which had cost her more than even Dion knew, a terrible reluctance she gave herself to her own generous impulse with enthusiasm.
Dion instantly replied to this, "Take thy arms, and receive the mark, or thou shalt suffer a miserable death." "But I shall not perish, said Maximilian. My name is already enrolled with Christ. I cannot fight." Dion said, "Consider then thy youth, and bear arms. The profession of arms becomes a young man." Maximilian replied, "My arms are with the Lord.
Thus did Dion Prusaeus, a stranger and a private orator, counsel the Rhodians against a former edict; and I abound with other like examples, which to set here would be superfluous.
The steamer came alongside the pier. When Dion stepped on to the quay a tall young Englishman with broad shoulders, rather a baby face, and large intelligent blue eyes immediately walked up to him. "Are you Mr. Dion Leith?" Dion, startled, was about to say "No" with determined hostility when he remembered Mrs. Clarke.
They lay there in a pile held together by an elastic band, and she could only see the writing on the envelope which was at the top. It was addressed to Dion and had been through the post. She wondered whether among those letters there was one from Rosamund.
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