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White put up a hand before him, and looked down at the carpet, as one who would not dwell upon painful things. "Unfortunate ahem mistakes will occur in life, Mr. Chiltern in the best of lives," he replied. "Say no more about it. I am sure, looking at you both " "Very well then," said Chiltern brusquely, "I knew you would have to know. And here," he added, "is an essential paper."
But I did not come here to bullyrag like an old woman. I got your letter only on Monday, and know nothing of what has occurred. Is Miss Effingham to be your wife?" Lord Chiltern had now come quite close to Phineas, and Phineas felt that that clenched fist might be in his face in half a moment.
He says, Why were we half an hour late? and how could he meet us there at four if at that time we had not left home? But that's nonsense. Chiltern has naturally a great flow of words, which he has cultivated by close attendance upon his Parliamentary duties. But he is mistaken if he thinks I am a Resolution and am to be moved by being "spoken to."
Hundreds of yards of mills stretched away on either side; mills with windows wide open, and within them Honora heard the clicking and roaring of machinery, and saw the men and women at their daily tasks. Life was a strange thing that they should be doing this while she should be going to live in luxury at a great country place. On one of the walls she read the legend Chiltern and Company.
She saw Chiltern enter, and she read on his face that he meant to destroy. It was no news to her. She had known it for a long, long time in fact, ever since she had came to Grenoble. Her curiosity, strangely enough or so it seemed afterwards was centred on Mr. Simpson, as though he were an actor she had been very curious to see.
Over and over she repeated that name to herself, and it refused somehow to merge with her identity. Yet was she mistress of this fair domain; of that house which had sheltered them race for a century, and the lines of which her eye caressed with a loving reverence; and the Chiltern pearls even then lay hidden around her throat.
In fact, this one was not a demon at all, but a liberator: the demon, she perceived, stalked behind him, and his name was Notoriety. It was he who would flay her for coquetting with the liberator. What if she were flayed? Once married to Chiltern, once embarked upon that life of usefulness, once firmly established on ground of her own tilling, and she was immune.
Chiltern said that he was Lord Hampton, with whom my great-grandfather went to Eton. But then Chiltern has a way of saying funny things, and I am not sure that he was in earnest in telling us that this active young man was really the veteran of Droitwich.
The road from Chiltern Grange is a lonely one, and at one spot it is particularly so, for it lies for over a mile between Charlington Heath upon one side and the woods which lie round Charlington Hall upon the other. You could not find a more lonely tract of road anywhere, and it is quite rare to meet so much as a cart, or a peasant, until you reach the high road near Crooksbury Hill.
They lingered, therefore, over the coffee, and Chiltern lighted a cigar. He did not smoke cigarettes. "I've lived long enough," he said, "to know that I have never lived at all. There is only one thing in life worth having." "What is it?" asked Honora. "This," he answered, with a gesture; "when it is permanent." She smiled. "And how is one to know whether it would be permanent?"
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