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They had argued fiercely then, some of them protesting that the American's disregard of a worn convention was splendid, virile, youthful, god-like. Roger, Henry remembered, had sided with Ninian so far as to admit that the American's behaviour had been too inconsiderate.

But the woman lifted her eyebrows and stared and turned away, with slow and insolent winking. Ninian had a boyish pride in his knowledge of places to eat in many cities as if he were leading certain of the tribe to a deer-run in a strange wood. Ninian took his party to a downtown café, then popular among business and newspaper men.

They had kept the frontiers of Illinois in terror for months and had caused considerable anxiety both to Governor Harrison and to Governor Ninian Edwards of the Illinois Territory.

Ninian sat up and shook himself, still feeling a bit dazed from his heavy slumber, and had scarcely realized the fact of his arrival before a man limped into the car and slapped him on the shoulder. "Well done, lad. Welcome to Sobrante!" "Hello, Mr. Marsh! You here? Sobrante? I thought " "Same thing. This is Marion; as near as we can get to our place on the rails. Remember, don't you?

Ninian closed his eyes, as if by so doing he might shut his ears to the final "Three!" which would mark the fatal leap. Ninian Sharp had closed his eyes against a catastrophe which, seemingly, nothing less than a miracle could prevent. When he opened them again the miracle had been performed.

Graham had always imagined that the proposal to build a Tunnel between France and England was a joke, and she said so. "Good heavens, mother!" Ninian exclaimed. "Old Hare isn't a joke. The thing's as practicable as the Tuppenny Tube. People have been experimenting for half-a-century with it. Joke, indeed! They've made seven thousand soundings in forty years!..." "Really!" said Mrs. Graham.

They sat up, gaping at the closed door. "What'd he say?" said Ninian. "He says he's engaged to that blooming orator!" Gilbert answered. "But, damn it, why?" said Ninian. "And we've got the lease of this house for another two years!" Henry exclaimed. "I suppose he'll want to get married and ... all that!" They were silent for a while, contemplating this strange disruption of their affairs.

He's been sleeping at the 'house' ever since he got back and might go straight to his room, if I don't prevent." When she had gone Ninian observed upon the remarkable devotion between the old sharpshooter and his small pupil, and the mother assented; yet added, as an after-thought: "I sometimes regret it. Jessica is a child of impulsive, yet absorbing affections.

"I like the English," he said again, and when he thought over that talk, there seemed to be nothing else to say. How could he feel about the English as John Marsh, who had never lived in England, felt? How could he dislike them when he remembered Gilbert Farlow and Roger Carey and Ninian Graham and Mrs. Graham and Old Widger and Tom Yeo and Jim Rattenbury ... and Mary Graham.

They talked of political schemes that must be prepared for the parliament that would some day be re-established in College Green. "And they can only be prepared by educated men," Marsh said. Henry would not listen to them. His longing was to be with Gilbert and Roger and Ninian in London.