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Helen's eyes lighted up, and a warm smile shone in them as she glanced down at her letter again. "He says he'll be through with Charlie's affairs soon. He's in Amberley. He's had to see to things through the police. He's coming right on here the moment he's through. He's he's going to wire me when he starts. Kate?" "Yes, dear."
On the present occasion he saw little of the Grand Babylon, for as soon as he mentioned his son's name to the nonchalant official behind the enquiry counter the official changed like lightning into an obsequious courtier, and Charles's family was put in charge of a hovering attendant boy, who escorted it in a lift and along a mile of corridors, and Charlie's family was kept waiting at a door until the voice of Charlie permitted the boy to open the door.
After a week spent in rural sport, and distinguished by the most frank attentions on the part of his honest landlord, Brown bade adieu to the banks of the Liddel and the hospitality of Charlie's Hope.
But Mrs Greenow knew that Charlie's charms would be much strengthened by a dinner out-of-doors. "Nothing," she said to Kate, "nothing makes a man come forward so well as putting him altogether out of his usual tack. A man who wouldn't think of such a thing in the drawing-room would be sure to make an offer if he spent an evening with a young lady down-stairs in the kitchen."
Wot did you borrow all that money for?" "Spend," ses Charlie, in a sulky voice. "Spend!" ses Mrs. Cook, with a scream; "wot in?" "Drink and cards mostly," ses Jack Bates, remembering wot Charlie 'ad told 'im about blackening 'is character. You might ha' heard a pin drop a'most, and Charlie sat there without saying a word. "Charlie's been led away," ses Mrs. Cook, looking 'ard at Jack Bates.
'I feel as though some kind friend were sympathising with me when you sing: it tells me too that, like myself, you have known trouble. I sighed as I looked at Charlie's picture. Her eyes followed my glance, and I saw again that tremulous motion of her hands. 'Yes, I know, she said hurriedly; but her beautiful eyes were full of tears. 'I have always been so sorry for you.
Little wonder indeed that both the young men found them very pleasant to look into. To Charlie's intense satisfaction, he decided, after shaking hands with her at the door, that she had seemed just as anxious that he should come and see her again as she did that Narcisse should.
"Shut up!" he shouted. "Shut up now!" Thin and tall, his boyish ribs showing, his damp hair tossed back from his beautiful gray eyes that were now black with anger, Jim dominated the crowd. There was immediate silence, broken only by Charlie's wild sobs. "Take 'em off! Take 'em off!" "He's going to have a fit!" exclaimed Phil. Charlie's lips were blue and foam flecked.
All the rest of the young people had been quite satisfied with the different means of support that had offered for each; and they had followed their respective careers with so much quiet good sense, that Charlie's remonstrances against the counting-house, and his strong fancy for an artist's life, was something quite new, and which Miss Patsey scarcely knew how to answer.
This not very easy feat of stalking we were able to accomplish, thereby winning Charlie's immense approval and putting him a splendid temper for the rest of the day; for, as the wild cloud swept over him, he was able to bring down no less than seven. Like a true sportsman, in telling the story afterward in John Saunders's snuggery, he averred that the number was nine!
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