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The girl did not answer, but suddenly through her black lashes she stole a look upward at her visitor. 'Can you, it seemed to say, 'you help me? Oh no; I think not! And, as though she had been stung by that glance, Bianca said with deadly slowness: "It is my business, of course, entirely, now that Mr. Dallison has gone abroad." The little model received this saying with a quivering jerk.
She clasped her hands, changed her feet with a hop, and went on walking as before. "Listen to me," said Hilary; "has Mrs. Hughs been talking to you about her husband?" The little model smiled again. "She goes on," she said. Hilary bit his lips. "Mr. Dallison, please about my hat?" "What about your hat?" "Would you like me to get a large one or a small one?"
The girl was in a streak of sunlight; her pale cheeks flushed; her pale, half-opened lips red; her eyes, in their setting of short black lashes, wide and mutinous; her young round bosom heaving as if she had been running. "I don't want to go on copying books all my life." "Oh, very well." "Mr. Dallison! I didn't mean that I didn't really! I want to do what you tell me to do I do!"
Dallison told him that the alarm was worse than ever that vast numbers were endeavouring to leave the city, but no one could now do so without a certificate, which was never granted if the slightest suspicion was attached to the party. "If things go on in this way," said the porter, "London will soon be deserted. No business is conducted, as it used to be, and everybody is viewed with distrust.
"I don't mean that they are necessarily at all if they're girls of strong character; and especially if they don't sit for the the altogether." Hilary's dry, staccato answer came to Cecilia's ears: "Thank you; it's very kind of you." "Oh, of course, if it's not necessary. Your wife's picture was so clever, Mr. Dallison such an interesting type."
Two days later in a daily paper over no signature, appeared this little paragraph: "We learn that 'The Shadow, painted by Bianca Stone, who is not generally known to be the wife of the writer, Mr. Hilary Dallison, will soon be exhibited at the Bencox Gallery. If Mr.
"Your sister-in-law has just been to see me, Mr. Dallison. She's such a dear-so interested in everything. I tried to get her to come on to my meeting with me." Raising his hat, Hilary frowned. For once his delicacy was at fault. He said: "Ah, yes! Excuse me!" and got out. Mrs. Tallents Smallpeace looked after him, and then glanced round the omnibus.
"Well, what is it you want?" he said at last. The little model answered by another question. "Are you really going away, Mr. Dallison?" "I am." She raised her hands to the level of her breast, as though she meant to clasp them together; without doing so, however, she dropped them to her sides.
Dallison held out two-pence for the paper, but it was at the woman that she looked. "Oh, Mrs. Hughs," she said, "we've been expecting you to hem the curtains!" The woman slightly pressed the baby. "I am very sorry, ma'am. I knew I was expected, but I've had such trouble." Cecilia winced. "Oh, really?" "Yes, m'm; it's my husband." "Oh, dear!" Cecilia murmured. "But why didn't you come to us?"
When she had at last decided what concerts she would be obliged to miss, paid her subscription to the League for the Suppression of Tinned Milk, and accepted an invitation to watch a man fall from a balloon, she paused. Then, dipping her pen in ink, she wrote as follows: "Mrs. Stephen Dallison would be glad to have the blue dress ordered by her yesterday sent home at once without alteration.
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