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"If you meant some day to get rid of me, to kick me out as you've kicked out the others," he said grimly, "you shouldn't have made me come to you that night when Jimmy was at Buyukderer. That was a mistake on your part." "Why?" she asked, almost in a whisper. "Because that night through you I lost something; I lost the last shred of my self-respect. Till that night I was still clinging on to it.
It was as if those eyes had seen the weeping of many men. The steamer drew near to the shore. The bright bustle of the quay was apparent. Dion made his effort and conquered himself. But he felt almost afraid of Buyukderer. In the ugly roar of the Grande Rue he had surely been safer than he would be here in this place which seemed planned for intimate happiness.
It seemed as if Jimmy had seen through Dion's insincerity in the garden at Buyukderer. Yet there was nothing to show that he had not accepted his mother's insincerity in Sonia's room at its face value. Even Mrs. Clarke had not been able to understand exactly what was in her boy's mind.
He thought that in Welsley he had reached the ultimate depths which a man can sound. It was not so. Dion came to Buyukderer on a breezy blue day, a day which seemed full of hope and elation, which was radiant with sunlight and dancing waters, and buoyant with ardent life.
"Of all the men who have cared for me you are the only man who has ever dared to interfere with my freedom," she said. Her voice had become almost raucous, and a faint dull red strangely discolored and altered her face. "I will not permit it. I shall go to Buyukderer, and I forbid you to follow me there. Now it's getting late and I'm tired. Please go away." "Men who have cared for you!" "Yes.
Clarke, who was at Buyukderer in a villa she had taken for the summer months, but who had come into Constantinople to do some shopping, saw "Mervyn Denton" in a side street close to the British Embassy. Those distressed eyes of hers were very observant.
"It's just that very divorce case which has made me alter my way of living," she said. "Any one who knew anything of the world, any one but a fool, could see that." "Ah, but I am a fool," he returned doggedly. "I was a fool when I ran straight, and it seems I'm a fool when I run crooked. You've got to make the best of me as I am. Take your choice. Go to Buyukderer if you like.
"I will." He dismounted and gave the reins to the Turkish youth. Sitting very erect on her black Arab horse, Mrs. Clarke watched him disappear down the lane in which Dion had heard the cantering feet of a horse as he sat alone beside the stream. Then she rode back to Buyukderer. Whether Mrs.
At the hotel in Constantinople she had said to Dion, "All the time Jimmy's at Buyukderer we'll just be friends."
Nevertheless, she did not now show any surprise. She just looked at him steadily, absorbed all the change in him swiftly, and addressed herself to the new man who stood there before her. "Come with me to the Hotel de Paris. I'm spending the night there, and go back to-morrow to Buyukderer. I had something to do in town." She had not given him her hand, and he did not attempt to take it.
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