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Lorin Boulger, for whom the party was given, should guess I was in the house, and prevent her husband's giving Wilbour the second secretaryship because she'd been obliged to spend a night under the same roof with his mother-in-law!" Ide continued to drum on his chair-arm with exasperated fingers. "You don't know that any of the acts you describe are due to the causes you suppose." Mrs.
If you can come, and I hope you will, it would be very kind of you to arrive a good deal earlier than the others; I want to talk to you about something. Yours affectionately, Lucy. He answered at once. My Dear Lucy: I will come with pleasure. I hope half-past one will suit you. Your affectionate cousin, Robert Boulger.
Lucy had asked Alec to remain till the end, and he and Dick had taken refuge in the smoking-room. Presently Boulger came in with two men, named Mallins and Carbery, whom Alec knew slightly. He glanced at Alec, and went up to the table on which were cigarettes and various things to drink.
She's never been a girl, poor thing; she was a child, and then suddenly she was a woman. 'But has she never had any lovers? 'I fancy that she's rather a difficult person to make love to. It would be a bold young man who whispered sweet nothings into her ear; they'd sound so very foolish. 'At all events there's Bobbie Boulger. I'm sure he's asked her to marry him scores of times.
That learned and laborious scholar conceived the idea that the Huns might be thus identified, and has written the history from Chinese sources, of those who since that time have poured down upon the civilized countries of Asia and Europe and wasted them. Boulger also identifies these tribes with the Huns of Attila.
'He knows I trust him, said Lucy. 'He knows I'm proud to trust him. Do you think I would cause him the great pain of asking him questions? 'Are you afraid he couldn't answer them? asked Boulger. 'No, no, no. 'Well, just try. After all you owe as much as that to the memory of George. Try.
Boulger had gone down as usual to the city, but in consideration of Lady Kelsey's urgent request, set out at once to see her. He had changed little during the last four years, and had still a boyish look on his round, honest face. To Mrs. Crowley he seemed always an embodiment of British philistinism; and if she liked him for his devotion to Lucy, she laughed at him for his stolidity.
But Robert Boulger was different. It seemed necessary, in consideration of all that had passed, that he should be told the little she knew; and then she thought also, seized on a sudden with a desire for self-sacrifice, that it was her duty perhaps to reward him for his long devotion. She might at least try to make him a good wife; and she could explain exactly how she felt towards him.
'Lady Kelsey is the most admirable of all hostesses, said Dick lightly. He took out his case and offered a cigarette to Alec. Alec took it. 'Give me a match, Bobbikins, there's a good boy, he said carelessly. Boulger, with his back turned to Alec, took no notice of the request. He poured himself out some whisky, and raising the glass, deliberately examined how much there was in it.
And she hasn't questioned me. 'I've given up trying to understand her attitude. If I were she, it would make me sick with horror to look at you. But after all I have the right to know something. George Allerton was my cousin. Alec rose slowly from the sofa. He faced Boulger with an indifference which was peculiarly irritating. 'That is a fact upon which he did not vastly pride himself.
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