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A paragraph in another part of the same paper, which asked if the Joseph Atlee who, it was rumoured, was to go out as Governor to Labuan, could be this man, had, it is needless to say, been written by himself.
They dined that day alone, that is, they were but three at table; and Atlee enjoyed the unspeakable pleasure of hearing them talk with the freedom and unconstraint people only indulge in when 'at home. Lord Danesbury discussed confidential questions of political importance: told how his colleagues agreed in this, or differed on that; adverted to the nice points of temperament which made one man hopeful and that other despondent or distrustful; he exposed the difficulties they had to meet in the Commons, and where the Upper House was intractable; and even went so far in his confidences as to admit where the criticisms of the Press were felt to be damaging to the administration.
He's Master of the Horse in the Viceroy's household, and the other fellow is Private Secretary, and some connection besides. I say, Dick, it's all King James's times back again. There has not been so much grandeur here for six or eight generations. 'There has not been a more absurd speech made than that, within the time. 'And he is really somebody? said Nina to Atlee.
'If Africa can boast such hospitality, I certainly rather envy than compassionate Doctor Livingstone, said he politely. 'Somebody, said Kearney dryly, 'calls hospitality the breeding of the savage. 'But I deny that we are savage, cried Atlee.
'I cannot say. On these he made me no confidences. 'Coffee, my lady! said the butler, entering at this moment. Nor was Atlee grieved at the interruption. 'I am enough of a Turk, said she laughingly, 'to like that muddy, strong coffee they give you in the East, and where the very smallness of the cups suggests its strength. You, I know, are impatient for your cigarette, Mr.
'And of that tendency to small joking and weak epigram I would also caution you to beware; they will have no success in the quarter to which you are going, and they will only damage other qualities which you might possibly rely on. Atlee bowed a submissive acquiescence.
'I'd rather you'd taken all the rest than that. Not that I ever wear it, but somehow it has a bit of memory attached to it! 'Do you know, said Atlee gravely, 'you are adding immensely to the value I desired to see in it? I wanted something as a souvenir of you what the Germans call an Andenken, and here is evidently what has some secret clue to your affections. It was not an old love-token?
These were not of the Kearney stamp, that needed to be stimulated and goaded to any effort in life; nor like Atlee, the fellow who relied on trick and knavery for success; still less such as Walpole, self-worshippers and triflers. 'Yes, said she aloud, a woman might feel that with such a man at her side the battle of life need not affright her.
You failed in that element of "restless distrust" that Talleyrand used to call the temper of the diplomatist. 'It is not the first time I have had to feel I am your lordship's inferior. 'My education was not made in a day, Atlee. It need be no discouragement to you that you are not as long-sighted as I am. No, no; rely upon it, there is no daughter in the case.
It is some question of a mistress or a dependant; and if so, the sentimentality, which would seem to have appealed so forcibly to you, fails at once. 'That is quite true, my lord; and I cannot pretend to deny the weakness you accuse me of. There may be no daughter in the question. 'Ah! You begin to perceive now that you surrendered your convictions too easily, Atlee.
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