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Advancing to meet her, and perceiving that she was a total stranger to him, he assumed that she was, in all probability, a visitor to his wife. "Have I the honor of speaking to a friend of Mrs. Delamayn's?" he asked. "My wife is not at home, I am sorry to say." "I am a stranger to Mrs. Delamayn," the lady answered. "The servant informed me that she had gone out; and that I should find Mr.
At the fourth round in other words, at the round which completed the first mile, the first change in the relative position of the runners occurred. Delamayn suddenly dashed to the front. Fleetwood smiled as the other passed him. Delamayn held the lead till they were half way through the fifth round when Fleetwood, at a hint from his trainer, forced the pace.
Blanche repeated the names of Lady Lundie's guests, leaving to the last the guests who had arrived last. "Two more came back this morning," she went on. "Arnold Brinkworth and that hateful friend of his, Mr. Delamayn." Anne's head sank back once more on the chair. She had found her way without exciting suspicion of the truth, to the one discovery which she had come to Windygates to make.
There was another knock at the door. Blanche's pale face turned paler still. Was it Arnold? Was it Anne? After a longer delay than usual, the servant announced Mr. Geoffrey Delamayn and Mr. Moy. Geoffrey, slowly entering first, saluted the two ladies in silence, and noticed no one else.
It may have occurred to your mind that the plain way out of our present dilemma is for you and Miss Silvester, respectively, to affirm what we know to be the truth namely, that you never had the slightest intention of marrying each other. Beware of founding any hopes on any such remedy as that! If you reckon on it, you reckon without Geoffrey Delamayn.
A nameless dread throbbed at her heart and crept among the roots of her hair. Lady Jane handed the certificate to the lawyer. "In two words, Sir," she said, impatiently, "what is this?" "In two words, madam," answered Mr. Delamayn; "waste paper." "He is not married?" "He is not married." After a moment's hesitation Lady Jane looked round at Mrs.
In silence, Julius Delamayn paid her the trifling courtesy of opening it for her. She went out. Mrs. Glenarm's indignation suspended for the moment transferred itself to Julius. "If I have been entrapped into seeing that woman, with your approval," she said, haughtily, "I owe it to myself, Mr. Delamayn, to follow her example, and to leave your house."
While the voices were roaring; while the hats and handkerchiefs were waving round the course; while the actual event of the race was, for one supreme moment, still in doubt Mr. Speedwell caught Sir Patrick by the arm. "Prepare yourself!" he whispered. "It's all over." As the words passed his lips, Delamayn swerved on the path. His trainer dashed water over him.
"I expect him here every moment." Anne explained again. "I have just parted from Mr. Delamayn." Mrs. Glenarm opened her eyes in astonishment. Anne proceeded. "I have come here, if you will excuse the intrusion " She hesitated at a loss how to end the sentence. Mrs. Glenarm, beginning by this time to feel a strong curiosity as to what might be coming next, advanced to the rescue once more.
"Must you always be pulling in a boat-race, or flying over a high jump? If you had a mind, you would want to relax it. You have got muscles instead. Why not relax them?" The shafts of Miss Lundie's bitter wit glided off Mr. Geoffrey Delamayn like water off a duck's back. "Just as you please," he said, with stolid good-humor. "Don't be offended.
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