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Strickland is going to let them have the Priory, and has taken a cottage for his own use. How charmed Anna will be when she sees it the garden is a dream of beauty, and the house is delightful!" For each summer she and Dinah had spent weeks at the Priory, and had succeeded in transforming the place.
"Art is the greatest thing in the world," he answered, after a pause. He looked at me for a minute reflectively; he seemed to hesitate; then he said: "Did you know that I had been to see Strickland?" "You?" I was astonished. I should have thought he could not bear to set eyes on him. Stroeve smiled faintly. "You know already that I have no proper pride." "What do you mean by that?"
Is it not curious that, just when you wrote to us, all full of Mrs. Strickland at Edgeworthstown, we should have been going about everywhere with Mr. Strickland at Paris? I read to him what you said about his little girl and Foster as he was going with us to a breakfast at Cuvier's, and he was delighted even to tears.
He had a characteristic sentimentality about the day and wanted to pass it among his friends with suitable ceremonies. Neither of us had seen Strickland for two or three weeks I because I had been busy with friends who were spending a little while in Paris, and Stroeve because, having quarreled with him more violently than usual, he had made up his mind to have nothing more to do with him.
Alexander, a student in Edinburgh, had lived for some time upon half of his allowance in order to accommodate Ian Rullock with the other half, the latter being in a crisis of quarrel with his uncle, who, when he quarreled, used always, where he could, the money screw. Strickland had listened to his Edinburgh informant, but had never divulged the news given.
An old and very distinguished General took Miss Youghal for a ride, and began that specially offensive "you're-only-a-little-girl" sort of flirtation most difficult for a woman to turn aside deftly, and most maddening to listen to. Miss Youghal was shaking with fear at the things he said in the hearing of her sais. Dulloo Strickland stood it as long as he could.
'It strikes me, said he, putting down the lamp, 'our friend Imray has come back. Oh! you would, would you? There was a movement under the cloth, and a little snake wriggled out, to be back-broken by the butt of the mahseer-rod. I was sufficiently sick to make no remarks worth recording. Strickland meditated, and helped himself to drinks.
It would seem that my visit to this remote island should immediately revive my interest in Strickland, but the work I was engaged in occupied my attention to the exclusion of something that was irrelevant, and it was not till I had been there some days that I even remembered his connection with it. After all, I had not seen him for fifteen years, and it was nine since he died.
An hour later, we heard him say, 'I hadn't the heart to part with my old make-ups when I married. Will this do? There was a loathly fakir salaaming in the doorway. 'Now lend me fifty rupees, said Strickland, 'and give me your Words of Honour that you won't tell my wife. He got all that he asked for, and left the house while the table drank his health. What he did only he himself knows.
"A shadow," he answered, passing a shaking hand up over his face and brow, "a ghost a phantom as you are; but my name was Strickland once, as yours was Devil Vibart. I am changed of late you said so in the Hollow, and laughed. You don't laugh now, Devil Vibart, you remember poor John Strickland now." "You are the Outside Passenger!" I exclaimed, "the madman who followed and shot at me in a wood "
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