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Soame Rivers answered her, 'Oh, it is the right thing to do; it poses a distinguished exile immediately. Quite the right thing. He was well advised. 'If only he had been as well advised in other matters, said Mr. Selwyn. Then Hiram Borringer, who had hitherto kept silent, after his wont, spoke. 'I knew him, he said, 'some years ago, when I was in Gloria.
Soame Rivers once, when he was irritated by her, which occasionally happened, though he generally kept his irritation to himself, said that she had a 'slap on the back' way of treating her friends. The remark was not kind, but it happened to be fairly accurate, as unkind remarks sometimes are.
'You would be very sorry if he did not miss you, Soame Rivers said blunderingly. Your cynical man of the world has his feelings and his angers. 'Very sorry! Helena defiantly declared. The Dictator came punctually at two he was always punctual. To-to was friendly, but did not conduct him. He was shown at once into the dining-room, where luncheon was laid out.
Even his genuine grief for poor Soame Rivers left room enough in his breast for a very considerable stowage of vexation that the whole confounded thing should have happened in his house. Grief is seldom so arbitrary as to exclude vexation. The giant comes attended by his dwarf. 'Well, we shall have a look at everything, the coroner said cheerily.
Jeremy Taylor, however, speaks of this feature of Christianity as among the manifest tokens of its divine origin, and Soame Jenyns takes the same ground in a treatise expressly designed to meet the objections and cavils of Shaftesbury and other deistical writers of his time. These authors are all in the right and all in the wrong, as to the matter of fact.
'I am afraid I can scarcely hope that Mr. Ericson will consent to be monopolised by me for the whole of the evening, she said; 'but I wish he would, for he is certainly the most interesting person here. Soame Rivers shrugged his shoulders slightly. 'You always know someone who is the most interesting man in the world for the time being, he said.
Just as he turned into that corridor he saw someone look into Hamilton's doorway, push the door farther apart, and then enter the room. Sarrasin quickly glided into the room after him; the man turned round and Sarrasin found himself confronted by Soame Rivers. 'Hello! Rivers said, with his usual artificiality of careless ease, 'I thought Hamilton was here. This is his room, ain't it?
Sarrasin was not a man to get in the ordinary way into Soame Rivers's set; and Rivers despised alike anyone who was not in his set, and anyone who was pushed, or who pushed himself, into it. He detested eccentricities of all sorts. He would have instinctively disliked and dreaded any man whose wife occasionally wore man's clothes and rode astride. He considered all that sort of thing bad form.
If anything should occur, the actual hour of the warning given would hardly be recalled amid so many circumstances more important. Soame sat in his room and watched with heavy heart. He felt that he had been playing the part of a traitor, and, more than that, that he was likely to be found out. Could he retrieve himself even yet? He knew he was not a coward.
'And now he is going! thought Helena. And at that hour Ericson was waking up, aroused from sleep by the sound of his own softly-breathed word 'Helena! 'It is now his birthday, she thought. Soame Rivers was not in his character very like Hamlet.
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