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'Nobody is to ask me how I like my own picture! The Tunbridge children 'That thing Hoyle has done of you, said Lord Borrodaile, deliberately, 'is a very brilliant and a very misleading performance. 'Thank you. Filey and Lord John, in spite of her interdiction, were pursuing the subject of the much-discussed portrait. 'It certainly is one aspect of you
How can we have too much beauty! exclaimed Filey, receiving the new occupant of the seat as a soul worthy of high fellowship. Then he leaned across Miss Heriot and said to the lady in the corner, 'I'm making that the theme of my book. 'Oh, I heard you were writing something. 'Yes, a sort of plea for the æsthetic basis of society!
'We shall be only six for the first brew, prompted the girl at her side. 'Paul Filey is mooning somewhere about the garden. 'Oh! 'Why do you say it like that? Hermione's eyes rested a moment on the golfer who was bringing up the rear. He was younger than his rather set figure had at a distance proclaimed him. 'I was only thinking Dick Farnborough can't abide Paul, said the girl.
Filey looked a little dashed. 'No! Has Miss Broughton said it, too? Then there are more of them! He glanced again at the Amazon. 'Horrible thought! 'Don't be so unreasonable. She couldn't play golf in a long skirt and high heels! 'Who wants a woman to play golf? Hermione gave him his tea with a smile.
Obvious from the quick lifting of the eyes that the guest was on the point of welcoming the proposal, had Filey not swallowed his belated cup of tea with surprising quickness after saying, 'What's a yellow garden? in the unmistakable tone of one bent upon enlarging his experience. Lady John, with all her antennæ out, lost no time in saying to Vida 'Perhaps you're a little tired.
Then the waters gather themselves together again, and the pounding of lesser waves keeps up a thrilling spectacle until the moment for another great coup arrives. Years ago Filey obtained a reputation for being 'quiet, and the sense conveyed by those who disliked the place was that of dullness and primness.
'Oh, in the gallery of the House of Commons? 'Yes, wasn't it disgustin'? said Paul Filey, facing about suddenly with an air of cheerful surprise at having at last hit on something that he and Lady Sophia could heartily agree about. 'Perfectly revolting! said Hermione Heriot, not to be out of it.
At high tide the waves come over the seaweedy rocks at the foot of the headland, making it necessary to climb to the grassy top in order to get back to Filey. The real fascination of the Brig comes when it can only be viewed from the top of the Naze above, when a gale is blowing from the north or north-east, and driving enormous waves upon the line of projecting rocks.
"The sea at Filey Bridge, and the Church Congress at Leeds," he answered, smiling. "Very shocking, is it not, Cecil?" said Rosamond, with mock gravity; "but he must be forgiven, for he was tired to death! I used to think, for my part, that lovers were a sort of mild lunatics, never to be troubled or trusted with any earthly thing; but that's one of the things modern times have changed!
The east coast had evidently been shunned. Finally, in the afternoon I reached Filey, very tired, and there slept. I went onward by train-engine all along the coast to a region of iron-ore, alum, and jet-excavations round Whitby and Middlesborough.
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