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He fell to brooding on it, until he wondered why he had not been made a trifle anxious by the reading of the note overnight. Skepsey was left at Nesta's house. Dartrey found himself expected by the servant waiting on Mrs. Marsett. Judith Marsett stood in her room to receive Nesta's hero.
I am not here to make capital out of a man's disappointment in his friends, but has your great patron used you well? Horlock offers you a grudging and belated place in his Cabinet. What did he say to you when you came hack from Hellesfield?" Tallente was silent. There was, in fact, no answer which he could make. "I do not wish to dwell on that," Dartrey went on.
He rallied her, chatted and laughed; pleased the ladies by laughing at Colney Durance, and inspired her with happiness when he spoke of England: that 'One has to be in exile awhile, to see the place she takes. 'Oh, Captain Dartrey, I do like to hear you say so, she cried; his voice was reassuring also in other directions: it rang of true man.
I think I am vain enough to think I read through blinds and shutters. The engagement what there was has been, to my reading, broken more than once. I have not considered it, to settle my thoughts on it, until lately: and now I may suspect it to be broken. I have given cause if it is known. There is no blame elsewhere. I am not unhappy, Captain Dartrey. 'Captain by courtesy. Very well.
She was not aware that she dealt a hurt until she had found a small consolation in the indulgence: for Captain Dartrey Fenellan admired this commanding figure of a woman, who could not legally say that which the woman he admired less, if at all, legally could say. 'I must leave you to interpret, Nataly remarked. Mrs. Blathenoy resented her unbefitting queenly style.
I won't repeat my reasons for educating them differently. At present we have but half the woman to go through life with and thank you. Dartrey stopped. 'Don't be disturbed, he added. 'There's no ground for alarm. Not of any sort. Nataly said: 'What name? 'Her name is Mrs. Marsett. 'The name is . . . ? 'Captain Marsett: will be Sir Edward. He came back from the Continent yesterday.
Durance, to elude the abominable word. 'In you run, my friend. Dartrey sped him up the steps of the hotel. A little note lay on his breakfast-table. His invalid uncle's valet gave the morning's report of the night. The note was from Mrs. Blathenoy: she begged Captain Dartrey, in double underlinings of her brief words, to mount the stairs. He debated, and he went.
He volunteered, however, a sad admission, that England had certainly lost something of the great nation's proper conception of Force: the meaning of it, virtue of it, and need for it. 'She bleats for a lesson, and will get her lesson. But if we have Captain Dartrey, we shall come through! So said the sparkle of Nesta's eyes. 'She is very like her father, he said to the ladies.
'Only these telegrams, she said, in apology. 'Lakelands on fire? Dartrey murmured to Nesta; and she answered: 'I should not be sorry. Nataly coldly asked her why she would not be sorry. Dartrey interposed: 'I'm sure she thinks Lakelands worries her mother. 'That ranks low among the worries, Nataly sighed, opening the envelope.
"You, of all men," she protested, "to be talking like this!" "I mean it," he insisted, a little doggedly. "I have spent too many of my years on the treadmill. A man was born to be either an egoist and parcel out the earth according to his tastes, or to develop like Dartrey into a dreamer. Curse you!" he added, suddenly shaking his fist at the tall towers of the Houses of Parliament.
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