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"I certainly shouldn't call him a 'dreaming nobody," replied May, in the tone of dignified reproof. "Lord Dymchurch is very thoughtful, and very well-informed, and has very high principles." "One may admit all that. All I meant was that there is no career before him. Would anyone dream of comparing him, for instance, with me? You needn't smile. You remember the talk we had at Mrs.
"Rather a vague one, I'm afraid. I have heard him only casually mentioned." "But Mr. Lashmar has a high opinion of him? He thinks him a man of good principles?" "Undoubtedly. A very honourable man." "So I hear from other sources," said Lady Ogram. "It's probably true. I should rather like to know Lord Dymchurch. He would be an interesting man to know, don't you think?"
Come and meet him here at five o'clock on Sunday; have a talk and then send him your invitation. He, too, is a thorough idealist; you're sure to like him." Before Lashmar left the house, all the details of this little dinner were neatly settled, the only point necessarily left uncertain being whether Lord Dymchurch could be counted upon. Of course Mrs.
On the spur of such feeling, he addressed a letter to Rivenoak, giving an account of his luncheon in Pont Street, and thanking the old autocrat more fervently than he yet had done for all her good offices. Since his return from Rivenoak, he had not met Lord Dymchurch. On the second day fortune was propitious.
She told me of your railway journey together, of your subsequent meetings, of what happened with Lord Dymchurch, and, last of all, what happened with Lady Ogram." "Probably," said Dyce, "not all that happened with Lady Ogram.
The old patched one, too, on the quaint little Norman church at Dymchurch seemed to me to be of interest in many ways, specially when I realized that it looked down on a row of graves, kept in beautiful order, of the nameless dead which the angry sea had given into the keeping of these sturdy village folk.
Of course I may have misunderstood Lord Dymchurch, but, if it hadn't been for what you have once or twice said to me, I really shouldn't ever have supposed that he meant anything. He talks in such a rambling way " She grew voluble. Lady Ogram listened awhile, then cut her short. "Very well. There has been some queer sort of mistake, that's plain. I should like to know what Lord Dymchurch means.
"She will want me when the other is out of the way," the apothecary answered sullenly. "Out of the way?" "Ay; in France, or there!" and the apothecary nodded towards the gibbet on Dymchurch Flat, which they were just approaching. "It is for her to choose," he added softly. "This side or that!" "How?"
Very apt for the contagion of such enthusiasm, Lord Dymchurch showed in his smile that he was listening with pleasure; yet he did not wholly yield himself to the speaker's influence. "One objection occurs to me," he remarked, averting his eyes for a moment. "The organic body is a thing finished and perfect.
Lashmar, though possibly his ambition had some alloy of self-seeking, gave an example of intellect applied to the world's behoof; especially did his views on education, developed in a recent talk at the club, strike Dymchurch as commendable and likely to have influence. He asked nothing better than an opportunity of devoting himself to a movement for educational reform.
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