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To think that she " The girl pressed her hands to her eyes. "The way that frightful breaker whirled the boat loose and over and over! and the water swarming with sharks!" "Do not think of it, my dear! Really, you must not think of it!" urged Mrs. Gantry. "Be thankful it happened before the sailors had time to put you in the same boat.
There was considerable activity down on the lake bed. At a pad close to the blockhouse a tower was under construction. That was the launching tower for Cetus. But of even more personal interest to Rick was the presence of a gantry crane at a third firing pad where one of the special rocket-transport trucks was just putting the first stage of Pegasus into place!
"Of a real live earl and a real hero, with Laffie Ashton thrown in for good I mean, bad measure!" cut in Dolores with enthusiasm. "You know, I asked Vievie to 'put him on her list, else he never may be kissed!" Again Mrs. Gantry raised her lorgnette to transfix her daughter with her cold stare. "You asked her to invite Lafayette Ashton? And you know his reputation!" "Of course.
"I'm here with both feet, and I want a job P-D-Q. First, though, I want you to shake hands with my friend, Jimmy Scarbridge Hold on! Wait a second." He drew himself up pompously, and bowed to Lord James in burlesque mimicry of Mrs. Gantry. "Aw, beg pawdon, m'lud. Er the aw Right Hon'able the aw Earl of Avondale: I present aw Mistah Griffith." "Chuck it!
"You would not deprive us of the pleasure of a little visit." "H'm. By cutting it close, I can wait a few minutes." "You need not trouble to wait, papa. You can introduce him to Mr. Ashton some other time." "May I offer myself as a substitute?" put in Lord James. "Mrs. Gantry has told me so much about the elder Mr. Ashton. Quite curious to meet him." Blandly taking Mr.
Blount, sitting next to Patricia, made their tardiness an excuse and devoted himself to her, thus escaping the toils of the general table-talk, which was frankly political. But at the adjournment to the drawing-room he cornered Gantry. "I meant to hunt you up this afternoon," he began, "but I was otherwise spoken for. What have you done?"
Walking rapidly down to the Sierra Avenue station, he saw a light in Gantry's office, and meaning to be fair first and severe afterward, if needful, he ran up the stair and tried the door of the traffic manager's office. It opened under his hand, and he found Gantry sitting at his desk. "Ranlett tells me that Mr. McVickar is in town," he began abruptly. "Where is he?"
Pretty fair restaurant down around the corner." "It's a go," said Blake. He nodded to Lord James. "That lets you out, Jimmy." "Out in the cold," complained his lordship. "What! With Mamma Gantry waiting to present you to the upper crust? I mean, present the crust to you." "Best part of the pie is under the crust." "Now, now, none of that, Jimmy boy.
"Really, won't you stay, Aunt Amice? I'll have tea brought in at once." "So sorry, my dear," replied Mrs. Gantry, placidly sailing on towards the reception hall. Dolores simulated a yawn. "O-o-ho! I'm so tired. Will nobody help me get up?" With a boyish twinkle in his gray eyes but profound gravity In his manner, Lord James offered her his hand.
As Lord James had once observed, with regard to his visit at Ruthby Castle, Blake's bigness of mind seemed to be instinctively sensed by nearly all those with whom he came in contact on favorable terms. But, from the first, he avoided Genevieve with a persistence so marked as almost to disarm Mrs. Gantry.
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