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There was an air of calm and reserved opulence about the Weightman mansion that spoke not of money squandered, but of wealth prudently applied. Standing on a corner of the Avenue no longer fashionable for residence, it looked upon the swelling tide of business with an expression of complacency and half-disdain. The house was not beautiful.
A slight smile curved the red lips as the shadowy eyes fell upon Leighton and Lewis. Leighton went tense, like a hound in leash. "Look, boy!" he cried. "A patrician passes!" The lady heard, understood. The smile, that was half-disdain, deepened. She bowed slightly, but graciously. The curtain fell. "Come, boy," said Leighton, "we can't stand that. Let's go find a tailor."
Returning from his walks on the Lido or wanderings through the little calli, he showed that unwise half-disdain, which an unenlightened masculine Herakles might have shown, for the blessedness of five o'clock tea. At dinner he was in his toilet what Mr Henry James calls the "member of society," never the poet whose necktie is a dithyramb. Good sense was his habit if not his foible.
And the sad shepherd took up his battered staff, and went on his way rejoicing. There was an air of calm and reserved opulence about the Weightman mansion that spoke not of money squandered, but of wealth prudently applied. Standing on a corner of the Avenue no longer fashionable for residence, it looked upon the swelling tide of business with an expression of complacency and half-disdain.
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