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Victor below, on the stage platform, indicated the waving of a hand to them, and his delight at Simeon's ringing points: which were, to Dartrey's mind, vacuously clever and crafty. Dartrey despised effects of oratory, save when soldiers had to be hurled on a mark or citizens nerved to stand for their country.
She sent Nesta to her room when they went upstairs to dress, unable to endure her presence after seeing her show a placid satisfaction at Dartrey's nod to the request for him to sleep in the house that night.
'A good gentleman, a resident, he replied; 'a military gentleman; indeed, a colonel of the cavalry; but, it may so be, retired; and anxious about our vast possessions; though he thinks a translation of a French attack on England unimportant. He says, the Germans despise us most. 'Then this gentleman thinks you have a good case? 'He is a friend of Captain Dartrey's.
Tallente was a little in the shadow of the hall and he witnessed the greeting between Nora and her husband: saw her come out of the study, a soft, entrancing figure in the little circle of firelight gleaming through the open door. She threw her arms around Dartrey's neck and kissed him. "Dear," she exclaimed, "how early you are!
And Dartrey's just the figure to strike a spark in a tinder-box head. 'With a husband who'd reduce Minerva's to tinder, after a month of him!
The Government Whips were fairly caught napping and were beaten by twelve votes." Dartrey's eyes flashed. "Tallente is a most wonderful tactician," he said. "This is the second time he's forced the Government into a hole. Horlock will never last the session, at this rate."
She heard Dartrey's praise of Nesta's voice for tearing her mother's bosom with notes of intolerable sweetness; and it was haphazard irony, no doubt; we do not the less bleed for the accident of a shot. At last, after midnight Victor arrived. Nesta most impudently expected to be allowed to remain. 'Pray, go, dear, her mother said. Victor kissed his Fredi.
Horlock said heartily, as the car pulled up outside Dartrey's little house. "Here's just a word of advice from an old campaigner.
And I can't complain; he has been a right-hand man to me over in Africa. But a man ought to have some control of his temper, especially a soldier. Dudley put emphasis into his acquiescence. 'Worse than that temper of Dartrey's, he can't forgive an injury. He bears a grudge against his country. You've heard Colney Durance abuse old England. It's three parts factitious-literary exercise.
Nataly murmured to Colney: 'Is there anything of Dartrey's wife? 'Dead, he answered. 'When? 'Months back. I had it from Simeon. You didn't hear? She shook her head. Her ears buzzed. If he had it from Simeon Fenellan, Victor must have known it. Her duties of hostess were conducted with the official smile.
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