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But when a certain course of action is without profit to our purpose, I see ugliness in it. It distresses me." "What the devil do you mean?" Dominey demanded. "I sleep with one ear open," Seaman replied. "Well?" "I saw you leave your room early this morning," Seaman continued, "carrying Lady Dominey in your arms." There were little streaks of pallor underneath the tan in Dominey's face.
I am to have a special mission. I am to find a place for myself there as an Englishman. The means are left to my ingenuity. Listen, Schmidt. A great idea has come to me." The doctor lit a cigar. "I listen, Excellency." Von Ragastein rose to his feet. Not content with the sound of that regular breathing, he made his way to the opening of the banda and gazed in at Dominey's slumbering form.
Both glasses were set down empty, only the stem of Dominey's was snapped in two. Mr. Mangan expressed his polite regrets. "This old glass," he murmured, looking at his own admiringly, "becomes very fragile." Dominey did not answer. His brain had served him a strange trick.
"The common impression in the neighbourhood here is that she is a maniac chiefly upon one subject her detestation of you. She has been known to take an oath that you should die if you slept in this house again. You naturally, being a brave man, ignored all this, yet in the morning after your first night here there was blood upon your night clothes." Dominey's eyebrows were slowly raised.
The little party moved on all together to another cover. Rosamund had joined them and hung on to Dominey's arm with delight. The brisk walk across the park had brought colour to her cheeks. She walked with all the free and vigorous grace of a healthy woman.
Any school or college friends whom I may encounter I shall be able to satisfy. I have stayed at Dominey. I know Dominey's relatives. To-night he has babbled for hours, telling me many things that it is well for me to know." "What about his near relatives?" "He has none nearer than cousins." "No wife?" Von Ragastein paused and turned his head.
He was out of breath, and the melting snow was pouring from his clothes on to the oak floor. They relieved him of his coat and dragged him towards the fire. "I must apologise for disturbing you at such an hour," he said, as he took the tumbler which Dominey pressed into his hand. "I have only just received Lady Dominey's telegram. I had to see you at once."
Dominey's nails cut into the flesh of his clenched hands. "I will come back within three days," he promised. "Do you know," she went on confidentially, "something has come into my mind lately. I spoke about it yesterday, but I did not tell you what it was. You need never be afraid of me any more. I understand." "What do you understand?" he demanded huskily.
Dominey's passion seemed to have burned itself out without expression. He showed not the slightest resentment at his companion's words. "Have no fear, Seaman," he enjoined him. "The situation is delicate, but I can deal with it as a man of honour." "You relieve me," Seaman confessed. "You must admit that the spectacle of last night was calculated to inspire me with uneasiness."
Her eyes seldom left for long the other end of the table, where Stephanie, at Dominey's left hand, with her crown of exquisitely coiffured red-gold hair, her marvellous jewellery, her languorous grace of manner, seemed more like one of the beauties of an ancient Venetian Court than a modern Hungarian Princess gowned in the Rue de la Paix.
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