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Updated: June 12, 2025
The chilliest of legal lovers had access to his love, but he must possess a soul that was on fire, in this deadly patience, for fear of doing something that might jeopardize her. Telegraph? He dared not. Write? She would get it by the first post; but what could he say that was not dangerous, if Cramier chanced to see? Call? Still more impossible till three o'clock, at very earliest, to-morrow.
Not on this dim bank, in this hideous backwater, with that dark dumb creature who had destroyed her! Out there on the river in the wood of their happiness somewhere alive!... And, staggering up past Cramier, who never moved, he got into his boat, and like one demented pulled out into the stream. But once there in the tide, he fell huddled forward, motionless above his oars....
Some imbecility, such as: 'Watching the human form divine in motion, 'Catching sidelights on Nell for the statuette' some cant; it did not matter! The wine was drawn, and he must drink! It was still early when he left the restaurant a dry night, very calm, not cold. When had he danced last? With Olive Cramier, before he knew he loved her.
He could hardly keep his hands from shooting out and seizing in advance that great strong neck. If he could strangle, and have done with him! But, quite suddenly, Cramier turned on his heel. "I have warned you," he said, and went. Lennan took a long breath. So! That was over, and he knew where he was. If Cramier had struck out, he would surely have seized his neck and held on till life was gone.
From a negative contempt for one who was either not sensitive enough to recognize that his marriage was a failure, or not chivalrous enough to make that failure bear as little hardly as possible on his wife, he had come already to jealous hatred as of a monster. To be face to face with Cramier in a mortal conflict could alone have satisfied his feeling.... Yet he was a young man by nature gentle!
If the Colonel had not cared so much about his niece, and had liked, instead of rather disliking Cramier; if Mrs. Ercott had not found Mark Lennan a 'nice boy, and had not secretly felt her husband's niece rather dangerous to her peace of mind; if, in few words, those three had been puppets made of wood and worked by law, it would have been so much simpler for all concerned.
Ercott it was especially jolly to be out of Town 'this confounded crowded time of year. And so the days of early June went by, each finer than the last. And then Cramier came down, without warning on a Friday evening. It was hot in London...the session dull.... The Jubilee turning everything upside down.... They were lucky to be out of Town! A silent dinner that! Mrs.
And then Cramier said: "Put on that scarf thing, Olive, and come round the garden with me." Mrs. Ercott admitted to herself now that what John said was true. Just one gleam of eyes, turned quickly this way and that, as a bird looks for escape; and then Olive had got up and quietly gone with him down the path, till their silent figures were lost to sight. Disturbed to the heart, Mrs.
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