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Hermon you found the low adventuress a devil, and one that you yourself had tried to help to make. Tell her " again with that low, unpleasant laugh " that you fear the worst for Alymer. That is all. Now you can go." Once more he futilely tried to speak, but she only waved him aside, and walked with a haughty, scornful step ahead of him.
Only then again came the recollection of the uncle, and his impudent offer to substitute himself, and make amends at the same time; and again the smouldering fires leaped up, fed by the strong, protecting touch of the hand upon hers. "I think Hal was right," Alymer was saying.
"Yes; and he looked like a boiled owl. On the whole, I prefer him imbecile." Alymer turned on her threateningly, but she slipped behind the other two, saying: "Have you met these also, Lord Denton. Mr. St. Quintin, of Shoreditch, and my cousin, Dick Bruce, poet, novelist, and mother's help."
Quintin was small and rather delicate, with never-failing cheerfulness on his lips, and eyes that seemed always to have behind them the recollection of the pitiful scenes among which he voluntarily moved. Alymer Hermon was Adonis returned to earth.
I would have asked you, only I was afraid you might think it cheek." "Very well then, Alymer," with emphasis, "when I have spoken to Lord Denton I will telephone you; and I hope he will be able to start you off on a road that will very nearly end in a verdict of 'Suffocated with briefs." "Or 'briefly suffocated'," he laughed, and beat a hasty retreat, for fear of a reprisal.
It dit not disturb the silence, in which one could almost hear pulse-beats. It belonged to another world. Once Alymer raised his head and looked hard into her face. In his eyes there was an expression of utter hopelessness.
For the three inmates of the Cromwell Road flat it held many prizes. Alymer Hermon's career continued to advance by leaps and bounds. The "taking up" by Sir Philip Hall became quickly an actual fact, and he was soon easily first among the juniors.
Give her some of that sticky pink-and-white cake, Alymer, and have some yourself, and you will soon both grow amiable again." "He hasn't got his bibliotheek," Hal snapped, "and he knows his mother told him he was to have bread-and-butter first. You are not to spoil him, Lorry. Spoilt children are odious." "So are conceited women," he retorted.
Alymer Hermon's father and mother were at this time living in a charming house at Sevenoaks, whither he went at least once a week to see them.
He gathered from them that she was remaining away for the whole winter theatrical season, because her health was bad; but any suggestion on his part to run over to Brittany and see her was persistently negatived. Finally he had come to Alymer. The moment he saw them he knew that something serious was wrong, and that it concerned Lorraine.
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