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Updated: May 4, 2025
Henry was warmly attached to his son, showered favours without number upon him, and might have done yet more if fate had not snatched him away at an early age. Though scarcely eighteen, the Duke of Richmond looked more than twenty, and his lips and chin were clothed with a well-grown though closely-clipped beard.
The scene was a broad walk in the Tuileries gardens, beneath a closely-clipped wall of greenery, along which were disposed alternately busts upon pedestals, and stone vases of flowers, while beyond lay formal beds of flowers, the gravel walks between radiating from a fountain, at present quiescent, for it was only ten o'clock in the forenoon, and the gardens were chiefly frequented at that hour by children and their attendants, who, like Estelle and Ulysse de Bourke, were taking an early walk on their way home from mass.
Merriton saw Wynne's big, broad-shouldered figure swathed in the black evening cloak which he affected upon such occasions, and which became him mightily, and with an opera hat set at the correct angle upon his closely-clipped dark hair, step into the lighted hallway, and begin taking off his gloves. Tony West's raspy voice chimed out a welcome, as Merriton went forward, his hand outstretched.
Absurd he tried to reason the whole thing calmly absurd that this slip of a girl, who knew Chinese, had become necessary to his happiness! How in thunder had it happened? But there is no answer to that and he was in no state of mind to reason; she was going away and he could not let her go away. He had hated the face he saw in the mirror, edged above his ears with closely-clipped gray hair.
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