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"I must introduce myself Maurice Wynn. My cousin, Mrs. Cayley, will be down directly; Jim Mr. Cayley is on the golf links. Won't you sit down right here?" I politely pulled forward the most comfortable of the wicker chairs. "Thanks. You're an American, Mr. Wynn?" he asked. "That's so," I said, wondering how he guessed it so soon.
I had just finished the light meal which was all Dr. Nabokof would allow me, when Mishka announced "Count Solovieff," and the Grand Duke Loris entered. "Please don't rise, Mr. Wynn," he said in English. "I have come to thank you for your timely aid. You are better? That is good. You got a nasty knock on the head just at the end of the fun, which was much too bad!
"And criticise the party?" asked Miss Wynn. "It would take strong influence to pull him through." "And if that strong influence were found?" said Mrs. Vanderpool thoughtfully. "It would surely involve some other important concession to the South." Mrs. Vanderpool looked up, and an interjection hovered on her lips.
"I'm going to trouble you to see me to my door; it's only a block. Good-night, all!" she called, but she bowed to Mr. Teerswell. Miss Wynn placed her hand lightly on Bles's arm, and for a moment he paused. A thrill ran through him as he felt again the weight of a little hand and saw beside him the dark beautiful eyes of a girl. He felt again the warm quiver of her body.
According to the tradition of the country, he was the illegitimate son of Sir John Wynn of Gwedir, by one Catherine Jones of Tregaron, and was born at a place called Fynnon Lidiart, close by Tregaron, towards the conclusion of the sixteenth century. He was baptised by the name of Thomas Jones, but was generally called Tom Shone Catti, that is Tom Jones, son of Catti or Catherine.
This sarcasm was not, however, supposed to be particularly distasteful to "Father Wynn," who enjoyed the reputation of being "hail fellow, well met" with the rough mining element, who called them by their Christian names, had been known to drink at the bar of the Polka Saloon while engaged in the conversion of a prominent citizen, and was popularly said to have no "gospel starch" about him.
The motor wizard fully believed that Hogan and Wynn were ashore, and that the dinghy was waiting to carry them to the yacht. He felt that he could trust Burton to be one to deal with Wynn much more safely than he could trust the more desperate Katz. "Who'll do the rowin'?" queried Katz. "You'd better do that, Katz," said Clancy. "My shoulder isn't in the right sort of condition for such work."
'I suppose so, said Arthur, with sudden gravity. 'Edith taught me she does just that, continued the child. 'I don't think she ever does anything that is wrong at all. But oh, Mr. Wynn, and he felt a sudden tightening of her grasp on his hand, 'what big bird is that? look how frightened the little ones are!
Whether or not Caroline Wynn would every marry him was a perennial subject of speculation among their friends and it usually ended in the verdict that she could not afford it that it was financially impossible.
"Even if they came at the wrong time, you must have been glad to see them all at Leila's." She gave him back his look with a faint smile. "I didn't see them." "You didn't see them?" "No. That is, excepting little Charlotte Wynn. That child is exquisite. We had a talk before luncheon the day I arrived.
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