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And she swept from the room, leaving him quivering with debasement. There was fortunately a company assembled for dinner when John Derringham descended to the restaurant and again joined his fiancée who never dined alone if she could help it, and reveled in gay parties for every meal, with plenty of brilliant lights and the chatter of other groups near at hand.
"Come!" whispered Halcyone, and walked to the high window-sill of the middle section, and then put down her burden upon the old faded velvet seat. "See, I will take off her veil gradually," she said, "and you must tell me of what she makes you think." John Derringham was growing interested by now, but had no idea in the world of the marvel he was going to see.
I like how your hair is brushed, and how your clothes are cut, and your being nice and clean and outdoor and long and thin " and then she whispered "ever so much better than Mr. Hanbury-Green's thick appearance. He may be as clever as clever, but he is common and climbing up, and I like best the people who are there!" John Derringham now addressed himself exclusively to his hostess.
John Derringham drew himself up and looked straight out in front of him his face was moved. "I know I do not," he said, "but I hope you believe me, Cheiron, when I tell you that I mean to devote the rest of my life to attain that object and at least no man could worship her more."
And she picked up from a table beside her his diamond gage, which she had taken from her hand before his entrance, and threw it over to him and then leaned back as if exhausted with anger among the cushions. John Derringham had grown very pale as the insulting words fell from her lips and now he rose to his feet, and standing there looked at her with pitying contempt.
And Priscilla said to herself: "She's prayin' to them Immortals, I expect. Well, whoever she prays to, she is a precious saint." Meanwhile, John Derringham lay betwixt life and death and was watched over by the kind eye of Arabella Clinker.
She realized that John Derringham was not the sort of man to give up his will to any woman unless the woman had entirely the whip hand, as she would have had if he had been dependent upon her for the financial aid wherewith to obtain his ambitions.
"When you meet a woman with a soul you will have met your match, John," the Professor said, and opening his Times, which Demetrius had brought in with the second post, he closed the conversation. John Derringham strolled into the garden. The place had been greatly improved since Halcyone's first discovery of its new occupant.
"But perhaps you don't remember the date?" "Yes, I do," Cora responded quickly. "It was the day your engagement was announced in the papers, because we spoke about it." "Did you?" he said, and drew in his breath a little. "And what did you say?" "Just the usual things how fortunate you were. And Halcyone said you were clever and great." John Derringham did not answer for a moment.
"Well, I should not let any of that nonsense ever stand between Freynie and me, thank goodness!" she concluded. But John Derringham limped off to the bows of the ship, quivering with pain. So Halcyone had spoken of his engagement and said he was "clever and great." What could it all mean? Did he no longer interest her then even at that period? This stung him deeply. There was no light anywhere.
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