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But the dazzlers were sundry male friends of Louis, with Kensingtonian accents, strange phrases, and assurance in the handling of teacups and the choosing of cake.... One by one and two by two they had departed, and at last Rachel, with a mind as it were breathless from rapid flittings to and fro, was seated alone on the sofa.
Nobody had told him that the being in the shawl was Lord Woldo, but he was sure that it must be so. Once Lord Woldo sat on a chair, but the chief nurse's lap was between him and the chair-seat. Both nurses chattered to him in Kensingtonian accents, but he offered no replies. "Go back to 262," said Edward Henry to his chauffeur.
Barely twelve hours earlier he had been mincing among the elect and the select and the intellectual and the poetic and the aristocratic; among the lah-di-dah and Kensingtonian accents; among rouged lips and blue hose and fixed simperings; in the centre of the universe. And he had conducted himself with considerable skill accordingly.
Heine was a Frenchman born in Germany and you are a Kensingtonian. I see nothing Irish in you. Oh, you are very Kensington, and therefore you will I do not know when or how, but assuredly as a stream goes to the river and the river to the sea, you will drift to your native place Kensington. But do you know that I have left the hotel?
Then he heard Harrier's Kensingtonian voice in the telephone asking who he was. "Is that Mr. Machin's room?" he continued, imitating with a broad farcical effect the acute Kensingtonianism of Mr. Marrier's tones. "Is Miss Ra-ose Euclid there? Oh! She is! Well, you tell her that Sir John Pilgrim's private secretary wishes to speak to her? Thanks. All right. I'll hold the line." A pause.
There was another with him, also an old Kensingtonian, who was still alive, and might yet come marching home with the victorious army. "I lost his next words, for there I broke down. But I seem to remember his saying: "'All men and all nations are the better for remembering that once they were holy. England's past, then, is holy; her future is unwritten.
She liked Harry, and she liked Harry's name, because it had a Kensingtonian sound. Harry, so accomplished in business, was also a dandy, and he was a dog. 'My stepson' she loved to introduce him, so tall, manly, distinguished, and dandiacal.
Rollo Wrissell, and he said it with an accent more Kensingtonian than any accent that Edward Henry had ever heard. His lounging and yet elegant walk assorted well with the accent. His black clothes were loose and untidy. Such boots as his could not have been worn by Edward Henry even in the Five Towns without blushing shame, and his necktie looked as if a baby or a puppy had been playing with it.
He spoke of one who, the evening before the last attack at Cape Helles, asked him: 'Will you take care of these envelopes, in case He declared that this simple sentence was, in its shy English way, a reflection of the words: 'It was written of me that I should do Thy will; I am content to do it. "That boy, an old Kensingtonian, was mortally hit in the morning.
Carlo Trent kissed her hand, respectfully for she was old enough to be his mother. "And you are the greatest tragic actress in the world, Ra-ose!" said he in the Kensingtonian bass. A few moments earlier Rose Euclid had whispered to Edward Henry that Carlo Trent was the greatest dramatic poet in the world.
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