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"He doesn't." "But they all feel you're rather big, anyhow. Then I went on to Park Lane to hear a new pianist and some other music at Eva's." "Yes." "Then I looked in at the Brabants' for some midnight tea before I came on here. They'd got some writers and Grant was there." "You HAVE been flying round...." There was a little pause between us.
I challenged her, and she quoted the Brabants, about whom there had been an ancient scandal. She'd heard of it from Altiora, and it was also Altiora who'd given her a horror of Lord Carnaby, who was also with us. "You know his reputation," said Margaret. "That Normandy girl. Every one knows about it. I shiver when I look at him. He seems oh! like something not of OUR civilisation.
Now, my firm have been long without direct news of the family whom they represent. Our intelligence of late years has come from their titular and legal guardian, Mr. Lalor Maitland, Governor of the district of the Upper Meuse in the Brabants.
But what could be expected if a man did not choose to attend to his own business? The wedding went by, as grand weddings do, without let or hindrance, according to the approved pattern. A Cabinet minister honoured it with his presence, and, being a distant relation of the Brabants, remained for a few days after the grand occasion.
Here Captain Scheepers, Captain Fouché and myself left the main body and went with our commando, consisting of about 300 men in all, in the direction of Rouxville, where, on the 13th of December, we captured 150 of the 2nd Brabants, who were sent to and for us.
A man at lunch at this hotel asked me if I was R. H. D. and said he was an American who had got a commission in Brabants horse He gave me the grandest sort of a segar and apparently on his representation the hotel brought me two books to sign, marked "Autographs of Celebrities of the Boer War." It seemed in my case at least to be premature and hopeful. Good luck and God bless you.
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