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The two smart stewards served in a manner which showed them to be well trained to their duties, and as the evening light filtering through the pale blue silk curtains over the open port-holes slowly faded, we gossiped on as men will gossip over an unusually good dinner. From his remarks I discerned that, contrary to my first impression, Hylton Chater was an experienced yachtsman.
Very cautiously Mr Altham ventured with some trepidation to sound Norman Hylton as to his feelings towards Amphillis. Notwithstanding the Archbishop's countenance and solid help, he was sorely afraid of being snubbed and sat upon for his presumption.
I've such lots to tell you and and I want you to go somewhere with me. Mrs. Hylton made no objection, beyond stipulating that Ella must not be allowed to tire herself after her journey, and so, a few minutes later, Miss Hylton came down in her pretty summer hat and light cape, and she and George were allowed to set out.
Agatha's answer was a puzzled stare, first at Amphillis, and then at Mr Hylton. "`Satisfied!" she repeated, as if she wondered what the word could mean. "Aren't we all satisfied?" "Maybe you are," replied Amphillis, "though I reckon I have heard you say what looked otherwise. You would fain have more life and jollity, if I err not."
Presently, when Hornby had risen to call a steward and left me alone with Hylton Chater, the latter whispered to me in confidence "If you find my friend Hornby a little bit strange in his manner, Mr. Gregg, you must take no notice. To tell the truth, he is a man who has become suddenly wealthy beyond the wildest dreams of avarice, and I fear it has had an effect upon his brain.
The question had arisen early in the life of the Republic in the case of Hylton v. United States, decided in 1796. This litigation involved the validity of a tax on carriages which had been imposed by Congress without apportionment among the states. Alexander Hamilton argued the case before the Supreme Court in support of the tax.
He clenched his delicate hand in a passionate gesture. "But now" he opened it "nothing. I'm at sea. How can I know that you, whom I have trusted more than any other man with my heart's secrets ?" The concierge with a dusty chauffeur in tow providentially cut short this embarrassing apostrophe. "Monsieur le Capitaine Hylton?" asked the chauffeur. "C'est moi." He handed me a letter.
He was letting down nobody; neither the managements nor the public. Moignon would find means of consolation. "My dear Hylton," said he, "now that my faith in Bakkus is not only restored but infinitely strengthened, and my mind is at rest concerning Elodie, I feel as though ten years were lifted from my life. I'm no longer Petit Patou. The blessed relief of it!
She is here no more yes?" "Well, ay there is a widow lady dwelleth here," said Kate, offering the other ear to her beguiler, just as Norman Hylton came up to them; "but she is a prisoner, and hush! haste you, now, or I must run without them." "Dat shall you not," said Ivo, quickly slipping the second ear-ring into its place.
He had occupied the house of Lady Heathcote, a few doors from Grosvenor Square, for the previous season, although he had lived there but very little. Where the fugitives were in hiding I had no idea. I longed to meet Muriel again and tell her what I had discovered, yet it was plain that the trio were concealing themselves from Hylton Chater, whom I supposed to be now back in London.
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