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I think his name is McFarland." "And a nurse? You'll want a nurse, won't you?" "I'll want anything I can get, and I'll want it quickly. There, hurry, while I find a bathrobe of Archibald's. He's wet through soaking wet. He must have been out all day in the storm."
"He is making Archibald rough," she said to Miss Polly, after a fortnight of unavailing opposition to the new influence in Archibald's life. "Until we came here," she added despondently, "Archibald loved me better than anything in the world, and now he seems to think of nothing but this man." "It looks to me as if it was mighty good for the child, honey.
He was to have succeeded to the title, as both of the Earl's legitimate sons were dead without issue one of them perished in the Boer War, and the other was killed in the hunting field. "Upon Archibald's death the old Earl publicly acknowledged Reginald Maltravers, his natural son, and took steps to have him legitimatized.
Archibald's well-intentioned scorn had inflicted a wound that pained still after the lapse of years. Moreover, by raising financial questions, he had unwittingly poured poison into that wound. Morgan, however, refused to have his eyes opened and clung desperately to his detached conception of poetry and the poet's life. The thought of his being destined for business terrified the lad.
'Bon soir, gentlemen, he said, speaking with the deep sonorousness which comes of long saturation of the vocal cords with undiluted spirits, 'I think one or two of these faces are new to Archibald's. Am I right? 'Yes, sir, said Smyth, rising. 'Permit me, Mr. De Foe, to introduce' The writer stopped him with a slow, majestic movement of the hand. 'What care I who they are? he said heavily.
The sight of the children's toys, of Fanny's story books, of Archibald's roller skates, moved her to tears once or twice; and when this happened she caught herself up sharply and struggled with the vague, malignant demon of melancholy. "Whatever comes, I must not lose my courage," she told herself at such times. "If I lose my courage I shall have nothing left."
Sir Philip staked his handsome horse Sawney against Archibald's sorry pony, upon this wager, that Favourite should, at the first trials, beat Sawney at a walk, a trot, and a gallop. Warmed with wine, and confident in his own judgment, the weak baronet insisted upon having the bet immediately decided.
It was to him that Lester owed his instincts for plain speech and direct statement of fact. "Never lie," was Archibald's constant, reiterated statement. "Never try to make a thing look different from what it is to you. It's the breath of life truth it's the basis of real worth, while commercial success it will make a notable character of any one who will stick to it." Lester believed this.
Archibald's mental disquiet, in which were now apparent some elements of resentment, had not subsided, but the state of his mind did not show itself in his demeanor, and he could not help feeling pleased to see that his wife was in better spirits. He had always known that she liked company. After breakfast he took Matlack aside. "I don't understand this business," said he.
Well, it certainly was providential, honey, when you come to think of it." The door of Archibald's room opened and shut, and the doctor came down the hall to the telephone. They heard him order medicines from a chemist near-by; and then, after a minute, he took up the receiver, and spoke to a nurse at the hospital.
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