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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.
He could not feel them to be absurd while Mrs. Burman's tenure of existence barred the ceremony. Anything for a phrase! he murmured of Fenellan's talk; calling him, Dear old boy, to soften the slight. Nataly had not seen Fenellan or heard from Dartrey; so she continued to be uninformed of her hero's release; and that was in the order of happy accidents.
But the silence upon what they were most bent on, had the sinister effect upon Victor, of obscuring his mental hold of the beloved woman, drifting her away from him. In communicating Fenellan's news through the lawyer Carling of Mrs.
Victor called to recollection Fenellan's 'Rev. Glendoveer' while Mr. Barmby pursued his discourse, uninterrupted by tripping wags. And those who have schemes, as well as those who are startled by the criticism in laughter to discover that they have cause for shunning it, rejoice when wits are absent. Mr. Sowerby and Nesta interchanged a comment on Mr. Barmby's remarks: The Fate of Princes!
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.
But the silence upon what they were most bent on, had the sinister effect upon Victor, of obscuring his mental hold of the beloved woman, drifting her away from him. In communicating Fenellan's news through the lawyer Carling of Mrs.
'He has been foretelling an eruption of an edifice. The laugh between them subsided to pensiveness. Mr. Fenellan's delay in the delivery of his news was eloquent to reveal the one hateful topic; and this being seen, it waxed to such increase of size with the passing seconds, that prudence called for it. 'Come! said Mr. Radnor. The appeal was understood. 'Nothing very particular.
Unable to repeat the brevity of Fenellan's rejoinder, he expatiated on it to convey it, swearing that it was the kind of thing done in the old days, when men were witty dogs: 'pat! and pat back! as in the pantomime. 'Repartee ! said Victor. 'He has it. You shall know him. You're the man for him. 'He for me, that he is! "Hope the mother's doing well? My card": eh? Grave as an owl!
'I decline to believe it, he said with forcible sound. 'She is married, was the rather shameless, exasperating answer. 'Married or not! he cried, and murmured: 'I have borne . These may be Mr. Dartrey Fenellan's ideas; they are not mine.
Fenellan's tone signified to his feverish sensibility of the moment, that the matter was personal; and the intimation of a touch on domestic affairs caused sinkings in his vacuity, much as though his heart were having a fall. He mentioned the slip on the bridge, to explain his: need to visit a haberdasher's shop, and pointed at the waistcoat. Mr.
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