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And if she could do that, pity was wasted on her! So thought he: and so the world would think of the poor forlorn soul striving to expiate her fault, that her father and sister might be at peace, without shame. Algernon signified to Sedgett that the agreement was fixed and irrevocable on his part. Sedgett gulped some ale. "Hands on it," he said, and laid his huge hand open across the table.
She was thinking of the pretty baby pictures in the magazines, and Algernon was so different! And his nose was strange, too, and she had massaged it so carefully, too, and when, oh when, would he say "Daddy-dinger!"
"I don't jes' know," remarked Skim, as he handed it across the table, "whether it's a thirty dollar deal, er a fifty." Having forgotten Beth's editorial, Louise did not understand this remark, but she calmly unrolled Skim's manuscript and glanced at the scrawled heading with an amused smile. "'Suspecting Algernon," she read aloud.
One pair especially her eyes followed with pleasure the uncommonly beautiful Anna of Norfolk and young Henry Algernon Percy of Northumberland, Hotspur's descendant. The pair were playing with roses; the youth had an armful of white and the girl an armful of red roses, which they threw at each other, singing as they lid so.
And he might have added Algernon Swinburne, who calls her "the greatest poet who ever was at all." Sappho and these two Victorians, I said to myself. . . . Why just these two? How keen is the cry of elective affinity athwart the ages! The soul, says Plato, divines that which it seeks, and traces obscurely the footsteps of its obscure desire. The footsteps of its obscure desire
Algernon closed his note-book and went placidly on as if Catherine's story had not interrupted him: "As I was saying, those men in Pittsburg " The telephone bell rang and Catherine went into the house to answer it. "I'll have to be excused, Algernon," she said, coming back a minute later. "Father wants something of me. You can tell me the rest another time."
Osgood, this seems to be the key to the mystery. At least it's the key to something." He lifted the key dangling from Elsmere's blouse. "Algy sewed it on me," explained the child. Mrs. Osgood sighed. "So Algernon is sick, and he sent you after Bertha, and she wasn't at home. I see. Max, you and Archie needn't wait.
"Silver," shrugged Algernon, implacable toward Fortune; and the kindly young nobleman nodded, and made allowance for his ill-temper and want of spirit, knowing the stake he had laid on the favourite. Little John startled the field by coming in first at a canter.
It was well that practice had trained Sophia in the qualities of a nurse, for Lucy was seldom available when Algernon Dusautoy was at home; she was sure to be riding with him, or sitting for her picture, or the good Vicar, afraid of her overworking herself, insisted on her spending the evening at the vicarage.
Algernon begged her not to call them 'loves. She nodded and smiled. "Your artistic admirations," she observed. "I am to see her in church, am I not? Only, my dear Algy, don't go too far. Rustic beauties are as dangerous as Court Princesses. Where was it you saw her first?" "At the Bank," said Algernon. "Really! at the Bank! So your time there is not absolutely wasted.
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