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"H'm, yes," responded Randolph thoughtfully. "I suppose it is the tendency of a young fellow who has never quite stood on his own legs financially to accept about everything that comes his way, and to accept it as a matter of course." "It is," said Foster. "I know that I was that way," continued Randolph, looking studiously at the nearest candle-shade.
The wonder is she did not kill him on the spot, and, as it was, the blow turned him perfectly giddy and silly for a time, and he ran round and round in a dazed sort of way do you think you could lower that candle-shade just a little? Thanks! she broke off suddenly, as I obeyed. 'Well, she was going to strike again, when her mistress rushed out, just in time to stop her.
Or was that pallor merely the effect on his face of raising the coloured candle-shade as he extinguished the candle? She could not be sure. 'Uncle Meshach ought to be in the lunatic asylum, I think, John's voice came majestically out of the gloom as they groped towards the door.
Neigh was a man who never disturbed the flesh upon his face except when he was obliged to do so, and paused ten seconds where other people only paused one; as he moved his chin in speaking, motes of light from under the candle-shade caught, lost, and caught again the outlying threads of his burnished beard. 'She will be famous some day; and you ought at any rate to read her book.
As she faced him across the table, the pink light of the candle-shade adding to the glow of health in her pretty cheeks, she caused him to start by the abruptness with which she said: "I don't see much ahead of me but to get married; do you?" "If you put it up to me, I don't see anything ahead of you, unless you take a different view of life; you never seem to have a serious thought." "Mr.
Methought he had the grace to blush, though there is an everlasting doubt in my mind that it may have been the colour of the candle-shade producing that illusion. "You were a little earlier than usual to-day," I continued finally, full of the marvel. "Monsieur?" He was wholly blank again. "Weren't you there about eleven? Didn't you go about two hours after Mr. Ward and his friends left here?"
It was linked to the road by a curving driveway marked on either side by whitewashed stones. On verandas enclosed In glass Wharton saw white-covered tables under red candle-shade and, protruding from one end of the house and hung with electric lights in paper lanterns, a pavilion for dancing.
"Bien entendu, mon général!" agreed his aide-de-camp tersely as he leaned forward and kindled a fresh cigarette over the candle-shade. Happily I noticed at that moment that the cigarette-box needed replenishing. It was an excuse at least to leave the room. A moment later I had tiptoed to the closed kitchen door and stood listening. Suzette was laughing.
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