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At all events, Lady Isobel was on her side, and that meant a good deal. 'And she went about in society just as if nothing had happened? 'No, no. That would have been bad taste, considering where her husband was. She wasn't seen much, only talked about. She's a clever woman, and by the time Carnaby's let loose she'll have played the game so well that things will be made pretty soft for him.
And now, away races Carnaby, with Barnabas hard upon his left, the pace quickens to a stretching gallop, the earth flies beneath them. Barnabas marks his take-off and rides for it touches "The Terror" with his spur and in that moment, Carnaby's gray swerves.
I want you to stand near by while I ask your grandmother a favor." "She won't do it if she can help it," was Carnaby's succinct reply. "Oh, I am not sure! Where shall we find her, in the library?" "Yes; come along! Get up your circulation; you'll need it!"
She was a regular old brick, and gave us a jolly good tea and a pot of jam to take away.... And now she's dead and and...." Carnaby's feelings became too much for him again, and a handkerchief that had seen better and much cleaner days came into play. Lavendar flung an arm round the boy's shoulder. "This kind of regret comes to us all, Carnaby," he said.
Carnaby's fine sense of the becoming declared itself in dark array; her voice was tenderly subdued; the pressure of her hand, the softly lingering touch of her lips, conveyed a sympathy which perfect taste would not allow to become demonstrative. Alma could at first say nothing.
Carnaby drove like a devil, had the lead to Southend, but, mark you, his whip was going! At Catford we were level again. At Lewisham I took the lead and kept it, and the last I saw of him he was cursing and lashing away at his cattle, like a brute. Carnaby's a devilish bad loser, I've noticed, and here I am. And oh! by the way he's got a devil of an eye, and a split lip.
There was that sneer about Mr Carnaby's nose which made everybody sorry now for Dale: but everybody started, Mr Carnaby and all, at Mr Tooke's voice, close at hand. How much he had seen and heard, there was no knowing; but it was enough to make him look extremely stern. "Are these boys not caned yet, Mr Carnaby?" "No, sir: I have not I " "Have they been standing here all this while?" "Yes, sir.
"I have not worn them since the Admiral's death," was the virtuous reply, "and I have never called or considered them mine, Robinetta. They are the de Tracy jewels. When Carnaby takes his place as the head of the house, they will be his. He will see that his wife wears them on the proper occasions." "Carnaby's wife!" thought Robinette. "Why! she mayn't be born! He may never have a wife!
Even that other and greater world, which is neither fashionable nor polite, being too busy gaining the wherewithal to exist, even in fetid lanes and teeming streets, in dingy offices and dingier places still, the same excitement prevailed; busy men forgot their business awhile; crouching clerks straightened their stooping backs, became for the nonce fabulously rich, and airily bet each other vast sums that Carnaby's "Clasher" would do it in a canter, that Viscount Devenham's "Moonraker" would have it in a walk-over, that the Marquis of Jerningham's "Clinker" would leave the field nowhere, and that Captain Slingsby's "Rascal" would run away with it.
On rising from table, Sibyl remarked that she wished to make one or two purchases; would Alma accompany her to the shop? They went forth, and drove as far as Regent Street. Mrs. Carnaby's requirements were one or two expensive trifles, which she chose with leisurely gratification of her taste.
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