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Liane Delorme turned up an enquiring look, tinged slightly with an impatience which all at once proved too much for her. "Oh, go to the devil!" she snapped in that harsh voice of the sidewalks which she was able to use and discard at will.
We will take your car and go on." "But, monsieur, I " Leon began to expostulate. The icy accents of Liane Delorme cut it: "Well, Leon: what is your objection?" "Objection, madame?" the fellow faltered. "Pardon but it is not for me to object. I I was merely startled." "Then get over that at once," he was advised; "and bring my jewelcase Marthe will point it out to you to the touring-car."
"Victoria would positively dislike an heiress. Jolly easy to take that sort of line on forty thousand a year! But as to birth, the family, in my opinion, has a right to be considered." Delorme hesitated a moment, then threw a provocative look at his companion, the look of the alien to whom English assumptions are sometimes intolerable. "Pretty mixed your stocks some of them by now!" "Not ours.
Had Dam struck the blow a second sooner, the fight would have been over and he would have won. As it was, Harberth had the whole interval in which to recover. Dam's own luck! Fighting the Snake was the real joy, and victory would end it. So would defeat and he must not get cock-a-hoop and careless. Delorme filled his mouth with water and ejected it in a fine spray over Dam's head and chest.
Liane Delorme bounded out of her chair, clapping hands to ears, and uttered an unheard cry of protest; and when, the noise suspending temporarily, she learned that it was to be repeated at intervals of two minutes as long as the fog lasted and the yacht was under way, she flung up piteous hands to an uncompassionate heaven and fled to her stateroom, slamming the door as if she thought thereby to shut out the offending din.
"Now," he announced with a little bow, "for what, one imagines, Mr. Phinuit would term the Elaborate Idea!" Phinuit grinned, then smothered a little yawn. Liane Delorme gave a small, disdainful movement of shoulders, and posed herself becomingly, resting an elbow on the arm of her chair and inclining her cheek upon two fingers of a jewelled hand.
"The whole duty of woman!" laughed Victoria with a touch of scorn; "for our grandmothers." "No: for all time," said Delorme stoutly. "Ask milord." He looked toward the house, and Victoria saw Tatham emerging. But she had no intention whatever of asking him. She rose hastily, excused herself on the score of needing a few minutes' rest, and went to meet her son.
At the end of twenty-four hours, however, the conviction seemed somehow to have insidiously penetrated that only a man of his ripe wisdom and disillusionment could possibly have any appeal to a woman like Liane Delorme. It wasn't long after that the engine room was illuminated by Liane's pretty ankles and Mr.
It was at this time that Dam's heart went wholly and finally out to Ormonde Delorme who roundly stated that his father, a bemedalled heroic Colonel of Gurkhas, was "in a blind perishing funk" during a thunderstorm and always sought shelter in the wine cellar when one was in progress in his vicinity. Darn presented Delorme with his knife and a tiger's tooth forthwith.
Victoria had Delorme on her right, and Lydia sat next the great man. Tatham could only glance at her from afar. On his right, he had his cousin, Lady Barbara, whom he cordially disliked.
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