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But Mrs. Lascelles sat looking up at me with her fine and candid eyes, as though she knew as well as I which was the real coincidence, and knew that I knew into the bargain. It gave me the disconcerting sensation of being detected and convicted at one blow. Bob Evers failed me as a topic, and I stood like the fool I felt. "I am sure you ought not to stand about so much, Captain Clephane." Mrs.

The humour had gone out of her eye; in its place was an almost animal glitter, a far harder light than had accompanied the significant reference to the patriotic impulse which she had nipped in the bud. It was probably only the old, old look of the lioness whose whelp is threatened, but it was something new to me in Catherine Evers, something half-repellent and yet almost wholly fine.

Bernard, one afternoon, at three o'clock, directed his steps to this small world-centre of Baden, and, passing along the terrace, soon encountered little Blanche Evers strolling there under a pink parasol and accompanied by Captain Lovelock. This young lady was always extremely sociable; it was quite in accordance with her habitual geniality that she should stop and say how d' ye do to our hero.

I shall tell him that about eleven o'clock at night you become peculiarly attractive." She went on again a few steps; Miss Evers and Captain Lovelock had turned round and were coming toward her. "It is very true that I am outrageous," she said; "it was extremely silly and in very bad taste to come out at this hour. Mamma was not at all pleased, and I was very unkind to her.

I myself left the same forenoon, and lay that night amid the smells of Brigues, after a little tour of its hotels, in one of which I found the name of Mrs. Lascelles in the register, while in every one I was prepared to light upon Bob Evers in the flesh. But that encounter did not occur.

He was dressed already, as perfectly as usual, and his hands were in his pockets. But his fresh brown face was as grave as any judge's, and his mouth as stern. I went on to ask, disingenuously enough, if we had not been "running straight with each other" as it was. "Not quite," said Bob Evers, dryly; "and we might as well, you know!"

Do you think there is a danger of that?" "Well," said Longueville, "I have already guessed." Gordon Wright remonstrated. "Don't guess yet wait a few days. I won't tell you now." "Let us see if he does n't tell me," said Bernard, privately. And he meditated a moment. "When I presented myself, you were sitting very close to Miss Evers and talking very earnestly.

And because a woman always looks relatively taller than a man, this woman looked nearly as tall as this lad. "Bob Evers? You may not remember me, but my name's Clephane Duncan, you know!" I felt the veriest scoundrel, and yet the words came out as smoothly as I have written them, as if to show me that I had been a potential scoundrel all my life. "Duncan Clephane? Why, of course I remember you.

I could afford to smile at myself to-day; yet now it all seemed yesterday, not even the day before, until of a sudden I caught sight of that other photograph in the place of honour on the mantelpiece. It was one by Hills and Sanders, of a tall youth in flannels, armed with a long-handled racket, and the sweet open countenance which Robin Evers had worn from his cradle upward.

"I saw you talking to them," he told me confidentially, "last night, you know!" "Indeed." He took me by the sleeve. "Of course I don't know what you said, but it's evidently had an effect. Evers has gone off alone for the first time since he has been here." I shifted my position. "You evidently keep an eye on him, Mr. Quinby." "I do, Clephane. I find him a diverting study.