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Both were at once carried back to the evening at Ullswater. Paula kept silence; her eyes were directed towards Dalmaine, who almost at the same moment looked towards her. She played with her fan. 'You know that my uncle has been ill? she said. 'No, I have heard nothing of that. Paula looked surprised. 'Don't you hear from from them? 'I have a letter from Mr.
And at once he was angry with himself for falling into this confession of failure. Dalmaine was the last man before whom he would affect humility. 'I am sure, observed the politician, 'everyone who has the good of the working classes at heart must feel indebted to you. It's so very seldom that men of culture care to address audiences of that kind.
Dalmaine also smiled, and with a slight involuntary curling of the lip. 'Ah, I remember our discussions on the Atlantic. I scarcely thought you would apply those ideas in their their fulness, when you began practical work. You surely will admit that, in a time when their interests are engaging so much attention, working men should for instance go to the polls with intelligent preparation.
He saw a smile come to Paula's face; he saw her on the point of extending her hand; then, to his amazement, he heard a sharp 'Paula! from Dalmaine, and husband and wife turned from him. It was the cut direct, or would have been, but for that little piece of impulsiveness on Paula's part.
Dalmaine; thank you very much. 'Good-bye, then. No, no, don't come down. Good-bye! She drove back home. She had been sitting for an hour in her boudoir, when Dalmaine came in. He smiled, but looked rather grim for all that. Seating himself opposite her, he asked: 'Paula, what was your business in Great Russell Street this afternoon? She trembled, but returned his gaze scornfully.
Dalmaine was supplied with the clearest opinions on every topic, and he had a way of delivering them which was most effective with persons of Mrs. Tyrrell's composition. In everything he affected sobriety. If he had to express a severe judgment, it was done with gentlemanly regret. If he commended anything, he did so with a judicial air. In fact, it would not have been easy to imagine Mr.
Paula was evidently exerting herself to be charming; Dalmaine was doing his best to trifle. He sought more information from Mrs. Tyrrell regarding Mr. Newthorpe. She seemed to fear that her brother-in-law might have been in more danger than Annabel in her letter admitted. 'They certainly must come south, she said. 'They are having a terrible winter, and it has evidently tried Mr.
Partly it reciprocated the other's feeling, no doubt; and then one generally looks with indulgence on a man whom one has discovered and developed. 'Does he go on with his literature? 'No. The title is, "Thoughts for the Present." Mr. Dalmaine leaned back and laughed. It was a hearty laugh. 'I foresaw it, I foresaw it! And how many hearers has he? 'Six only. 'To be sure.
Dalmaine was absent at luncheon-time; Paula ate nothing and talked fretfully to the servant about the provision that was made for her though she never took the least trouble to see that her domestic concerns went properly. She idled about the drawing-room till three o'clock.
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