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"They say that it is in the power of certain people to drive him out of political life at any moment." Dartrey's smile was sufficiently contemptuous but there was a note of anxiety in his tone which he could not altogether conceal. "These canards are very absurd, Nora," he declared.
In spite of her turbulent breast's burden to deliver, Mrs. Marsett's feminine acuteness was alive upon Dartrey, confirming here and there Nesta's praises of him. She liked his build and easy carriage of a muscular frame: her Ned was a heavy man. More than Dartrey's figure, as she would have said, though the estimate came second, she liked his manner with her.
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.
Fenellan, with the usual apologetic moderation of a second statement, thought 'there was the look of it. 'Well, we must watch over her. Dartrey! but Dartrey's an honest fellow with women. But men are men. Very few men spare a woman when the mad fit is on her. A little woman-pretty little woman! wife to Jacob Blathenoy! She mustn't at her age have any close choosing under her hand.
'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.
'To Nesta herself? not any: not to a girl like your girl. 'To my girl's name? Speak at once. But I know she has. She induced Nesta to go to her house. My girl was insulted in this woman's house. Dartrey's forehead ridged with his old fury and a gust of present contempt.
'Most probably because he has not written, papa. He paused after the cool reply. She had no mournful gaze at all; but in the depths of the clear eyes he knew so well, there was a coil of something animate, whatever it might be. And twice she drew a heavy breath. He mentioned it in London. Nataly telegraphed at night for her girl to meet her next day at Dartrey's hotel.
She is young: I could kneel to her. Do you know a Major Worrell? 'Worrell? no. 'He is a-calls himself a friend of my of Captain Marsett's. He met us out one day. 'He permitted himself to speak to Miss Radnor? She rejoiced in Dartrey's look. 'Not then. First let me tell you. I can hardly tell you. But Miss Radnor tells me you are not like other men. You have made your conclusions already.
Radnor, emboldened to judge hopefully of his fortunes by mere pressure of the thought of Dartrey's, 'I put it to you: would you say, that there is anything this time behind your friend Carling's report? Although it had not been phrased as a report, Mr. Fenellan's answering look and gesture, and a run of indiscriminate words, enrolled it in that form, greatly to the inspiriting of Mr. Radnor.
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.
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