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"You have some explanation to make," he said. "It was so long ago; mightn't it be better to go over the story again?" "Perhaps." "Then it is best you should tell it. I am on my defence, you know." Sir Duke leaned back, and a frown gathered on his forehead. Strikingly out of place on his fresh face it seemed.
Sometimes, with a slight frown, as though ear and mind waited, intently, for something that did not come. "I wonder how many people you have said the same things to before!" she said suddenly, looking searchingly into his face. "What have you got to tell me about that Scotch girl?"
"I am delighted to learn that the rumor I heard of Mr. Gamble's insolvency is unfounded." "By the way, where did you hear the rumor?" inquired Courtney with a frown. "Really, I've forgotten," Gresham confessed. "One should not forget such things if one repeats such rumors," Courtney reproved him. Gresham went away both puzzled and annoyed.
"I am sure you would have acted honorably," said Morley gravely, "but it is just as well that you did not marry the girl. I think she had some reason to be jealous of Miss Denham." Ware groaned. "I tried my best to " He broke off with a frown. "This is my private business, Morley. You have no right to pry into these things." Morley shrugged his shoulders. "As you please. I shall say no more.
What is it all? nothing. Were I to act as you say, I should be a coward and a traitor. I see, I do see, all that's real. I'm no Quixote, to draw my sword on illusions. 'There should be no halting here. How can you do you ever think? I wonder if you can breathe. I feel as if the evil one were in the house. A stern, momentary frown was my father's only answer, as he looked fixedly at her.
The awkward pause following the recitation was suddenly broken by a loud and uncontrollable laugh. Doris, startled, turned to look at young Dunstable. For it was he who had laughed. Madame also shook off her stage trance to look a thunderous frown upon her handsome face. The young man laughed on laughed hysterically burying his face in his hands.
"Sliding after like his shadow, pausing when he chose to pause, If a frown his face contracted, straight the courtiers dropped their jaws; If to laugh the King was minded, out they burst in loud hee-haws.
"I'm to come back here for you, then?" And he took up his overcoat. Max began to help him on with it. "Come in here a moment," said Dudley, in the same dry, abrupt manner as before; "I want to speak to you." Max followed him into the ante-room, and Dudley shut the sitting-room door. "That girl," said he, with, a frown "where did you pick her up? At the wharf?" "I met her there.
As the hours lengthened, his wrinkled face became less vinegary, between his eyes there appeared a deepening frown of apprehension. More than once he opened his lips to ask Tom's opinion of how the fight progressed, but managed in time to restrain himself. Finally he could maintain silence no longer, so he spoke to Doret: "Mister! It looks to me like she ain't doin' well."
It was addressed to "The Lady Anna Lovel, to the care of Messrs. Goffe and Goffe, solicitors, Raymond's Buildings, Gray's Inn." Lady Anna was allowed to read it first; but she read it in the presence of her mother, to whom she handed it at once, as a matter of course. A black frown came across the Countess's brow, and a look of displeasure, almost of anger, rested on her countenance.
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