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"Well, I know there's that version," Halson said, evasively. "The engagement is only just out, as you know. As to the offer the when and the how I don't know that I'm exactly at liberty to say." "I don't see why," Minver urged. "You might stretch a point for Rulledge's sake." Halson looked down, and then he glanced at Minver after a furtive passage of his eye over Rulledge's intense face.
"Well, I know there's that version," Halson said evasively. "The engagement is only just out, as you know. As to the offer the when and the how I don't know that I'm exactly at liberty to say." "I don't see why," Minver urged. "You might stretch a point for Rulledge's sake." Halson looked down, and then he glanced at Minver after a furtive passage of his eye over Rulledge's intense face.
"He did leave you at an anxious point, didn't he?" Halson smiled to the rest of us at Rulledge's expense, and then said: "Well, I think I can help you out a little. Any of you know the lady?" "By sight, Minver does," Rulledge answered for us. "Wants to paint her." "Of course," Halson said, with intelligence. "But I doubt if he'd find her as paintable as she looks, at first.
"He did leave you at an anxious point, didn't he?" Halson smiled to the rest of us at Rulledge's expense, and then said: "Well, I think I can help you out a little. Any of you know the lady?" "By sight, Minver does," Rulledge answered for us. "Wants to paint her." "Of course," Halson said, with intelligence. "But I doubt if he'd find her as paintable as she looks, at first.
When brought to book for his inconsistency by Rulledge, he said he was merely welcoming the new blood, if not young blood, that Newton was infusing into our body, which had grown anaemic on Wanhope's psychology and Rulledge's romance; or, anyway, it was a change.
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