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One may be quite sure that a man is never disinterested when he does a low thing." "It was a private letter written for our private information," Mrs. Guthrie Brimston asserted. She was ruffled considerably by this time. "No, not written for your private information," Evadne rejoined, "or if it were, you are making a strange use of it.
Guthrie Brimston laughed aloud, while Evadne's laugh was soundless. Evadne suffered when she found herself being toadied by these people. She said nothing, however. They were Colonel Colquhoun's friends, and she felt herself forced to be civil to them so long as he chose to bring them to the house. And they were besides an evil out of which good came to her quickly.
If the question of motive is to be taken into account in considering the words and deeds of people, it may be confidently asserted that the Guthrie Brimstons never said a good-natured thing nor did a kind one. "I say, Minnie, if I give that sergeant of mine a goose at Christmas, I think I'll get more work out of the fellow next year," Major Brimston said to his wife at breakfast one morning.
"You have put on the blue frock," he said softly to Edith, looking down at her with animal eyes and a flush partly of gratified vanity on his face. Edith smiled and blushed. She could not reason about him. Her wits had forsaken her. "That's a case, I think," said Mrs. Guthrie Brimston. Several more men had joined her by this time, and they all looked across at Edith and Menteith.
If it be possible, sir, I should like to have an official inquiry instituted into the circumstances of my marriage at once." "Very well, Captain Clarence," Colonel Colquhoun answered ceremoniously. "I'll apologise," Major Guthrie Brimston gasped. But Captain Clarence turned on his heel, and walked back to his wife as if he had not heard. How the inquiry was conducted was not made public.
Malcomson was not there, but the Colquhouns and Sillengers were, and other friends of hers, kindly disposed, cultivated people, who spoke well of her, and were all agreed in their praise of her work. Mrs. Guthrie Brimston stiffened as she listened to their remarks, but held her peace for a time, with thin lips compressed, and rising ire apparent. "I cannot class the book," said Colonel Sillenger.
Now, I like a woman with something in her," he concluded, ogling Mrs. Guthrie Brimston. "Well, then, she must have been hibernating, or something, when she first came out, for she has begun to talk now with a vengeance," Mrs. Guthrie Brimston answered smartly. "But what has she been saying?" he asked, with great curiosity. "I simply cannot tell you!" she answered pointedly.
Clarence, and stood, patting the poor girl's hand with motherly tenderness; smiling at her, and saying conventional nothings in a most cordial manner. Colonel Colquhoun had watched these proceedings, understanding them perfectly, but remaining impassive as at first. And Mrs. Guthrie Brimston had also seen signs of the re-action the moment it set in, and shown her astonishment.
"It does not claim to be fact exactly, and yet it is not fiction." "Not a novel, but a novelty," Major Guthrie Brimston put in, clasping his hands on his breast, twiddling his thumbs, and setting his head on one side, the "business" with which he usually accompanied one of his facetious sallies. "What I admire most about Mrs. Malcomson is her courage," said Mr. Price.
Evadne's reputation was in danger after that, and she risked it still further by acting in defiance of the public opinion of the island generally, in order to do what she conceived to be an act of justice. Mrs. Guthrie Brimston went to her one morning, brimming over with news.
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