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Thus in a manner wholly unexpected was a frightful situation eased off. "I'm so glad it's settled!" cried Mrs. Effie, who had listened almost breathlessly to our exchange. "I fancy I settled it as Cradleigh would have eh, Ruggles?" And the man actually smiled at me. "Entirely so, sir," said I. "If only it doesn't get out," said Mrs. Effie now. "We shouldn't want it known in Red Gap.
You should have taken it in quite the same spirit as you did from Lord Ivor Cradleigh." "It seemed different, sir," I said firmly. "If I may take the liberty of putting it so, I felt quite offended by your manner. I missed from it at the most critical moment, as one might say, a certain urbanity that I found in his lordship, sir." "Well, well, well! It's too bad, really.
Hence our constant worry lest he prove too susceptible out of his class. More than once had he shamefully funked his fences. There was the distressing instance of the Honourable Agatha Cradleigh. Quite all that could be desired of family and dower she was, thirty-two years old, a bit faded though still eager, with the rather immensely high forehead and long, thin, slightly curved Cradleigh nose.
"I was remembering an occasion at Chaynes-Wotten when Lord Ivor Cradleigh behaved toward me somewhat as Mr. Belknap-Jackson did last night and when my own deportment was quite all that could be wished. It occurs to me now that it was because his lordship was, how shall I say? quite far gone in liquor at the time, so that I could without loss of dignity pass it off as a mere prank.
Effie. "I see you still harbour the ruffian?" "I've just given him a call-down," said Mrs. Effie, plainly ill at ease, "and he says it was all because you were sober; that if you'd been in the state Lord Ivor Cradleigh was the time it happened at Chaynes-Wotten he wouldn't have done anything to you, probably." "What's this, what's this? Lord Ivor Cradleigh Chaynes-Wotten?"
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