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But at the time I could not help taking Alwyn's part. He was not good to his father, and often lost his temper and said disrespectful things. But Mr. Gaythorne had no right to be so tyrannical. "When my mother died father would not hear of our living at Ivy Dene. He said he hated the place, and we went to America for a year or two, and there I heard of Olive's death.
She admired Theo's splendid red hair and dazzling skin. She saw that, though the young woman's clothes were simple, their simplicity was Parisian and expensive; and she saw also that Theo was a flirt a "man-eater," as she put it to herself, her dark eyes meeting the green eyes in a first understanding glance. Miss Dene was far from unwilling to be pumped.
May's husband living?" asked Falconer, with a twinkle of mischief in his usually grave eyes. "I think I mustn't tell even you anything about her private affairs," Miss Dene answered virtuously. "But I've reason to know that, for this race, anyhow, she's out of the running. As Mrs. May was telling you at luncheon, Mr.
"I know him?" repeated Miriam, with dull surprise. "You mean I have met him. What is his name? Heyton, of course." "That is his name, his title," said Celia; "but he has borne several names, has had a strange history. You knew him by the name of Derrick Dene."
In the slightly strained pause that followed, Juliet bent to fondle Columbus who was sitting pressed against her and her book slid from her lap to the ground. Green stooped swiftly and picked it up. "What is it? May I look?" She held out her hand for it. "It is Marionettes, Dene Strange's latest. Mrs. Fielding lent it to me." He kept the book in his hand.
Don't you grieve for me; I'll lie in the bed that I have made, and if the worst comes to the worst, I have money in my pocket or its worth and we will meet again in England. Come, give my love and duty to Master Peter and your father, and if I should see them no more, bid them think kindly of Betty Dene, who was such a plague to them."
It's a sair hert ye hae as weel as me i' yer body this nicht; and we maun beir ane anither's burdens! The dauty may lie as we hae laid her, the nicht throuw, and naething said: there's little to be dene for her; she's a bonny clean corp as ever was, and may weel lie a week afore we put her awa'! There's no need for ony to watch her; tyke nor baudrins 'ill never come near her.
Has it occurred to you that you did something of the same kind when you were at the Dene? The way that was then offered you was easy." Vane frowned. "That is not the kind of subject one cares to talk about; but you ought to know that I couldn't allow them to force Miss Chisholm upon me against her will. It was unthinkable!
Dene, Cora's aunt, was very wishful for it to happen on the girl's account and meant to make other arrangements for her own comfort.
But at last the confusion simmered down, and, wiping his face, Dene went with the other men below, where a meal had been hastily prepared for them. The insufficient light of a waving lamp fell upon a group of men and women he had seen on the quay.
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