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'Atlee, Joe Atlee; the fellow you sent over here. 'Indeed! was all that Walpole could utter. 'Just take it to your room and read it over. You will be astonished at the thing. The fellow has got to know the bearings of a whole set of new questions, and how he understands the men he has got to deal with! 'With your leave I will do so, said he, as he took the letter and left the room.
He asked me to accompany him as a favour; and he did more, mademoiselle: he confided to me a mission a very delicate and confidential mission such an office as one does not usually depute to him of whose fidelity or good faith he has a doubt, not to speak of certain smaller qualities, such as tact and good taste. 'Of whose possession Mr. Atlee is now asserting himself? said she quietly.
'I read in one of the most accredited journals of England the other day that Ireland had never produced a poet, could not even show a second-rate humorist, said Kearney. 'Swift and Sterne were third-rate, or perhaps, English, said Atlee.
That is what you see, Mr. Atlee, is it not? 'You are right. I see it all. And now he seized her hand and kissed it as though he had won the right to that rapturous enjoyment. She drew her hand away, but so slowly and so gently as to convey nothing of rebuke or displeasure. 'And so you are going away? said she softly. 'Yes; Walpole has some pressing reason to be at once in Dublin.
The Pasha liked him so much that he invited him to be his guest while he remained at Constantinople, and soon satisfied that he was a guileless youth fresh to the world and its ways, he talked very freely before him, and affecting to discuss mere possibilities, actually sketched events and consequences which Atlee shrewdly guessed to be all within the range of casualties.
'You'll provoke me to kick you, Atlee. 'In that case I shall sit where I am. But I was going to remark that as I shall start for town by the next train, and intend to meet Walpole, if your sister desires it, I shall have much pleasure in taking charge of that note to his address. 'All right, I'll tell her.
Hour after hour of that long summer day he walked, revolving such thoughts as these; all his conclusions tending to the one point, that he was not the easy victim she thought him, and that, come what might, he should not be offered up as a sacrifice to her worship of Joe Atlee. 'There is nothing would gratify the fellow's vanity, thought he, 'like a successful rivalry of him!
'Bye-bye! said Atlee carelessly, and he strolled away. When Atlee quitted Walpole's room, he was far too full of doubt and speculation to wish to join the company in the drawing-room. He had need of time to collect his thoughts, too, and arrange his plans. This sudden departure of his would, he well knew, displease Kearney.
'With half-a-dozen days like this, said Atlee, as he smoked his cigarette, in a sort of languid grace, 'one would not say O'Connell was wrong in his glowing admiration for Irish scenery. If I were to awake every day for a week to this, I suspect I should grow somewhat crazy myself about the green island. 'And dash the description with a little treason too, said the other superciliously.
How little they know, as that fellow Atlee says, that a man evolves his Turkey out of the necessities of his pocket, and captures his Constantinople to pay for a dinner at the "Frères." What fleets of Russian gunboats have I seen launched to procure a few bottles of champagne! I remember a chasse of Kersch, with the café, costing a whole battery of Krupp's breech-loaders!
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