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That she, who was not always pleased with a new-comer, chanced to like him from the first, completed the vanquishment of the journalist, if that object had not before been entirely accomplished; and within an hour after setting foot within that comfortable little home the young man felt that it had become dearer to him than any other building of bricks and mortar into which he had ever entered.
The sciatica was a dear enemy of long standing, always affectionately referred to by the forgiving Constance as 'my sciatica'; the rheumatism was a new-comer, unprivileged, spoken of by its victim apprehensively and yet disdainfully as 'this rheumatism. Constance was now very stout. She sat in a low easy-chair between the oval table and the window, arrayed in black silk.
When, in accordance with hospitable etiquette, the new-comer was summoned canorously to the reading of the Law 'Shall stand Simeon, the son of Nehemiah' and he arose and solemnly mounted the central platform, his familiarity with the due obeisances and osculations and benedictions seemed a withering reply to the libel.
A short sunburnt man came in and our friend sprang up and saluted, clicking his heels like a pair of tongs. 'These are the South African Dutch, Herr Captain, he said. The new-comer looked us over with bright intelligent eyes, and started questioning Peter in the taal.
As they neared the port a small launch was seen coming out. An officer soon came on board. "You are to go down the coast to Trinkitat," he said to the captain. "The transports have gone down there, that is to be the base of operations." The officers clustered round the new-comer to learn the news. "You have been more lucky than the 19th," he said.
Flossy spoke with the artless prattle of one seeking to make herself agreeable to a new-comer by explaining the existing order of things, but she had chosen her words as she proceeded with special reference to her listener's case. There was nothing in her manner to suggest that she was trifling with the feelings of the wife of Hon.
A silence ensued, undisturbed by a movement or a whisper, and all eyes were fixed upon the new-comer, who stood, with bent head and corrugated brow, groping in his memory among a thronging multitude of valueless recollections for one single little elusive fact, which, found, would seat him upon a throne unfound, would leave him as he was, for good and all a pauper and an outcast.
"Well, my dear," the new-comer briskly asked her hostess, "what subjects are we to discuss to-day?" Mrs. Ballinger was furtively replacing a volume of Wordsworth by a copy of Verlaine. "I hardly know," she said somewhat nervously. "Perhaps we had better leave that to circumstances." "Circumstances?" said Miss Van Vluyck drily.
Hold him tight and threaten him; but no knife." But for this timely interference, it would have gone hard with the unfortunate new-comer, who was our old friend Mole, Mole, it should be noted, had been compelled to change his cork legs, on which he could scarcely stand, for his old, familiar stumps, which Harvey had brought with him in case any accident should occur. "Forgive me, Mr.
The new-comer had dull, dog-like brown eyes, as different as possible from the restless and glittering grey eyes of the prince. But once again Father Brown was tortured with a sense of having seen somewhere a replica of the face; and once again he remembered the repetitions of the glass-panelled room, and put down the coincidence to that. "Confound this crystal palace!" he muttered.
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