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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!
He remembered a fable of Fenellan's, about a Society of the Blest, and the salt it was to them to discover an intruder from below, and the consequent accelerated measure in their hymning. 'Have you seen anything offensive to you? he asked. 'One sees notorious persons. Dudley spoke aloof from them 'out of his cold attics, Fenellan would have said.
Fenellan's remark, that he had nothing very particular to tell, reduced it to the mere touch upon a vexatious matter, which one has to endure in the ears at times; but it may be postponed. So Mr. Radnor encouraged him to talk of an Insurance Office Investment. Where it is all bog and mist, as in the City to-day, the maxim is, not to take a step, they agreed.
Fenellan's remark, that he had nothing very particular to tell, reduced it to the mere touch upon a vexatious matter, which one has to endure in the ears at times; but it may be postponed. So Mr. Radnor encouraged him to talk of an Insurance Office Investment. Where it is all bog and mist, as in the City to-day, the maxim is, not to take a step, they agreed.
'Superb toilettes! The colonel eyed Mrs. Blathenoy dilatingly, advanced, bowed, and opened the siege. She decided a calculation upon his age, made a wall of it, smilingly agreed with his encomium of the Concert, and toned her voice to Fenellan's comprehension: 'Did it occur recently? 'Months; in Africa; I haven't the date. 'Such numbers of people one would wish to know!
Dartrey Fenellan's card compelled Dudley presently to receive him. Dartrey, not debarred by considerations, that an allusion to Miss Radnor could be conveyed only in the most delicately obscure manner, spared him no more than the plain English of his relations with her.
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