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"I am so sorry I called Sim!" pleaded poor Flora. "It's no matter now. Perhaps it will be a good lesson for him and me to learn at the start. Now we will push off and try again. It is lucky I thought of the money when I did, for we could do nothing without that. Come, Sim, bear a hand!" "Buckland, can't I step out and see the raft go?" asked Flora. "I don't like to stay in here."
"No," said Ethel decidedly, "I am glad you were there, Ritchie; I never should have thought of one time being better than another." "Just like Ethel!" said Flora, smiling. "Why should not you learn?" said Richard gently. "I can't," said Ethel, in a desponding way. "Why not?
She found in herself a great and an unusual tenderness towards the home life. Only her mother and her father were now at home. Harold was at a branch of his bank in Shanghai. Robert was in Canada. Flora was in India, married, with two small children. Hilda was in Devonshire, married to a doctor.
Flora laughed, rather drearily, though she guessed with some uneasiness the cause of her father's outbreak. It appeared injudicious to offer him any encouragement. "After all, one must be fair," she said. "I met some very nice people in the old country." He turned to her abruptly. "Do you know who has taken Lansing back?" he asked. "I believe, from something West said, it is Mrs. Marston."
"So I'm a sport," said Mrs. Barraclough with a smile. "But even so, why should I want looking after?" "That's what puzzles me," said Isabel. Jane and Flora exchanged glances. "I don't know whether we ought to," said Jane. "He's my fiancé," said Isabel, "and you're jolly well not going to keep me in the dark." "And quite incidentally," Mrs. Barraclough remarked, "he's my son."
The man who was tortured while you were free to " She did not finish the sentence for even as she spoke Richard Frencham Altar stepped shakily from the car and came toward them. The extraordinary resemblance between the two men wrung a cry of amazement from Flora. "Barraclough?" said Richard rocking on his heels. "Pretty extraordinary meeting like this on the finishing straight. How goes?"
I cast him off I'll find him out, and old as I am, I'll fight him I'll wring his neck, the rascal; and, as for poor dear Miss Flora, God bless her! I'll I'll marry her myself, and make her an admiral. I'll marry her myself. Oh, that I should be uncle to such a rascal!" "Calm yourself," said Henry, "no one can blame you."
The politicians were at it still, for two more hot, weary, sultry weeks, but they were of little use. Lady Flora had fled to Scotland, Disney was smothered in arrears of work which must be made up before he got a rest. London was full of strange faces and outlandish folk. "I must take a holiday myself," said Harry in a moment of seeming inspiration. Where, where, where?
Her father was too abstractedly immersed in learned and military discussions to observe her partiality, and Flora Mac-Ivor did not alarm her by remonstrance, because she saw in this line of conduct the most probable chance of her friend securing at length a return of affection.
He did not confide to Flora what he had seen, but the tapping of his foot on the floor-board gave her the information as surely as any spoken word. She startled him not a little by rapping out the enquiry: "How much lead have we got." "Five miles." "We shall do it. They won't average more than twenty-eight and we're good for that. Where are we now?" "Hogs-back." "What's time?"
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