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Doctors say it easily becomes a habit, and a bad one." "I don't take it often, I really don't," Irene answered. "But I sometimes wonder if it would make any difference. I can sympathize with a hopeless drunkard, who, in a besotted condition, is able to forget trouble and sorrow." "Finish your breakfast," Buckton cried, forcing a laugh. "We are going to take that drive.
You know as well as I do that Irene used to have a silly sort of liking or fancy for Andy Buckton." Mostyn nodded, his eyes averted. "Yes, yes, of course," he said, hesitatingly. "She told me all about it at the time, quite frankly." "Well, you know, I presume, that his uncle left him a lot of money when he died the other day?" "I heard something about it."
She seemed, whatever it was, perfectly to see it now to see that if she should just chuck the whole thing, should have a great and beautiful courage, he would somehow make everything up to her. When the clock struck five she was on the very point of saying to Mr. Buckton that she was deadly ill and rapidly getting worse.
"I had a strange experience night before last." Irene quite ignored his protest. "It was something too vivid to be a mere dream. You know there is a difference between a dream and a real experience. I mean that one seems able to tell the two apart." "Perhaps we had better say no more about it," Buckton suggested. "Don't you think a drive in the open air would do you good?"
The force that had been sent out on the Buckton road had been soon recalled, without securing further information than that the Confederate pickets were in possession of every road which led west or north from Front Royal. Again did Gordon, at the request of Banks' chief of the staff, endeavour to persuade the general to abandon Strasburg.
It was of course the law of the place that they were never to take no notice, as Mr. Buckton said, whom they served; but this also never prevented, certainly on the same gentleman's own part, what he was fond of describing as the underhand game.
As they went in they met a portly man who stood aside for them to pass. "How are you, Mr. Buckton?" the man smiled, cordially. "Oh, how are you?" Buckton answered, with a start and a rapid scrutiny of the passenger's face. Moving on, he secured seats at a table for two.
What was it that kept coupling this hurried trip of hers with Buckton? Was thought-transference a scientific fact, as many hold, and was the insistent impression due to the bearing of culpable minds upon his? He might telephone here and there and find out if Buckton was in town but no, no, that would not do.
He had as usual half a dozen telegrams; and when he saw that she saw him and their eyes met he gave, on bowing to her, an exaggerated laugh in which she read a new consciousness. Mr. Buckton was a long time with him, and her attention was soon demanded by other visitors; so that nothing passed between them but the fulness of their silence.
Do you know, many persons believe that if a woman acts acts well, as I am doing now, the man to whom she gives in will, down at the bottom of his heart, cease to respect and love her in time in time, I mean?" "Bosh and tommyrot!" Buckton fairly glowed. "Never, never, when the case is like ours. We are simply doing our duty to ourselves. Love you? Why, I adore you! You have saved my life, darling.
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