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Ally's bed faced the door, and the look in Ally's eyes made her aware of the change in him. His youth and its charm dropped clean away from him. He looked ten years older than he had been ten minutes ago.
Ally's dragging pace had not carried her far from the Frys' gate when she was stopped by old Mrs. Sollas, who was a great talker, and spoke very slowly because she had never been able to get used to her new teeth from Hepburn.
She could combine the installation of a detective with the nicest respect for her ally's feelings by the simple process of engaging one without telling Lord Wisbeach anything about it. The telephone stood at her elbow, concealed at the express request of the interior decorator who had designed the room in the interior of what looked to the casual eye like a stuffed owl.
I observed that Ally's high chair was stationed close by her father's side; and ever and anon, while gayly talking, he would slip into her rosy little mouth some choice bit from his plate, these notices and attentions seeming so instinctive and habitual, that they did not for a moment interrupt the thread of the conversation.
It was not well that he should be thinking all the time of Gwenda when he came. And it was well that their father should have forgotten Rowcliffe. For of course it was only on Ally's account that she was asking Rowcliffe, really. Not that there seemed to be any such awful need. For Ally, in those five weeks, had got gradually better.
Her nimble fingers smoothed the wax, and over the effaced heart a child's whim Orion wrote things on which the lives of two human beings depended. He did so with sincere confidence in his little ally's adroitness and fidelity. Early next morning she was to receive a letter to be conveyed to Amru by the messengers.
She had not forgotten that she had to ask him, that she was pledged to ask him on Ally's account if, as Gwenda had put it, she was to play the game. But she had had more than one motive for her delay. It would look better if she were not in too great a hurry. Sufficient time must elapse to allow of his forgetting Gwenda.
Although the Dominican did not believe in the least in the sincerity of his ally's protestations, he yet gladly welcomed the aid which might prove so useful to the prince's cause, and attributed the sudden change of front to some recent rupture between Charles and his cousin, promising himself that he would make capital out of his resentment.
The insurgent chiefs fled, and got on board the Vectis, one of the two vessels of war which you suffered the Sicilian rebels to fit out in your ports, when you refused all help to your ancient friend's ambassador in checking this outrage on the law of nations, and when by a celebrated 'inadvertence' you suffered those rebels to obtain from the Tower a supply of arms, wherewith to fight your ally's armies.
Philip was now, indeed, nearly ready to go; his fleet and his armament, being smaller than Richard's, could be dispatched earlier; so Richard devoted himself very earnestly to the work of facilitating and hastening his ally's departure, determining that immediately afterward he would bring forward his bride and celebrate his marriage.
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