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Even if the woman who was speaking had not been the object of such interest as the people in the hansom had to bestow, even had either of them looked towards Vida's corner, only a hat and a gauze ruffle would have been seen. Borrodaile took the hint. His waning sense of the humour of the situation revived. 'Perhaps, after all, if we lay low, he said, smiling more broadly.
'I can forgive them for worrying the Liberals' he threw a laughing glance at Greatorex 'but they are disorderly. 'Isn't the phrase consecrated to a different class? said Miss Levering, quietly. 'You're perfectly right. Greatorex, for once, was at one with Lord Borrodaile. 'They've become nothing less than a public nuisance. Going about with dog-whips and spitting in policemen's faces.
I saw, presently, there was one person in front of her a great big fellow he looked like a carter he was carrying home the chair! They both laughed. 'Well, she's found a thick-and-thin advocate in you apparently, said Borrodaile.
'I don't want to interrupt you two, said the hostess, 'but I think you must look at the pictures. 'Oh, yes, I brought them specially' Lord Borrodaile deflected his course in order to take up from the table two squares of cardboard tied face to face with tape. 'Bless the man! Mrs. Freddy contemplated him with smiling affectation of scorn. 'I mean the new photographs of the children.
We spun off into the mysterious enchantments of Borrodaile in gusts of rain; but the heavenly valley was the more mystic because of the showers. Huge white clouds walked ahead of us, like ghosts of pre-historic animals; and baby clouds sprawled on the mountain sides, with all their filmy legs in air. At Lodore the water was "coming down" like a miniature Niagara.
Lord, the perils that beset the feet of man! He got up with a half-comic ill humour. 'You're not going! The hostess flitted over to remonstrate. 'I haven't had a word with you. 'Yes, yes; I'm going. Mrs. Freddy looked bewildered at the general laugh. 'He's heard aspersions cast upon your character, said Lord Borrodaile. 'His moral sense is shocked. 'Honestly, Mrs.
'You didn't see anything of my brother and his wife? asked Lord Borrodaile. 'Oh, yes, his host suddenly remembered. 'I thought the Freddys were coming by that four-thirty as well as 'No nobody but me. She threw her many-tailed boa on the back of the chair that Paul Filey had drawn up for her between the hostess and the place where Borrodaile had been sitting.
'Nobody is to ask me how I like my own picture! The Tunbridge children 'That thing Hoyle has done of you, said Lord Borrodaile, deliberately, 'is a very brilliant and a very misleading performance. 'Thank you. Filey and Lord John, in spite of her interdiction, were pursuing the subject of the much-discussed portrait. 'It certainly is one aspect of you
He passed without seeing the only other person visible at that quiet hour one of the 'unemployed, like himself, but save in that respect sufficiently unlike the Earl of Borrodaile was the grimy, unshaven tramp collapsed in one corner of the double-seated municipal bench.
But it was a defect like the rest, forgiven the Lady Sophia for her father's sake. Lord Borrodaile, held to be one of the most delightful of men, was much in request for parties of this description. One reason for his daughter's being there was that it glossed the fact that Lady Borrodaile was not was, indeed, seldom present, and one may say never missed, in the houses frequented by her husband.
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