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But the company of a helpful gentleman ensured safety a gentleman who would be helpful by the fact of his knowing so much and having it all right there. If a big newspaper told you everything there was in the world every morning, that was what a big newspaper-man would have to know, and Mr. Dosson had never supposed there was anything left to know when such voices as Mr.
Francie sprang up, releasing herself from her sister, and threw her arms round him. "Will you take me away, poppa? will you take me right straight away?" "Of course I will, my precious. I'll take you anywhere. I don't want anything it wasn't MY idea!" And Mr. Dosson and Delia looked at each other while the girl pressed her face upon his shoulder.
Dosson thought it natural any one should want to see his daughter was only equalled by the degree to which the young man thought it natural her father should take trouble to produce her. There was a superfluous drapery in the doorway of the salon de lecture, which Mr. Dosson pushed aside while George Flack stepped in after him.
"Well, that's LIKE you like the Tauchnitzes littering up our track. I'll be bound I'd see it," Delia declared. "Hasn't it come, doesn't it always come?" "I guess we haven't had the last unless it's somewhere round," said Mr. Dosson. "Poppa, go out and get it you can buy it on the boulevard!" Delia continued. "Francie, what DID you want to tell him?" "I didn't know. I was just conversing.
"Well, you'll see," said Delia Dosson, beginning to draw on her gloves. Her companion watched her, leaning forward with his elbows on the arms of his chair and his hands interlocked. At last he said interrogatively: "Bon Marche?" "No, I got them in a little place I know." "Well, they're Paris anyway." "Of course they're Paris. But you can get gloves anywhere."
He saw it come in powerfully with Mr. Flack, after Miss Dosson had proposed they should walk off without their initiator. Her father didn't favour this suggestion; he said "We want a double good dinner to-day and Mr. Flack has got to order it."
Francie had instructed her sister that as their friend would have, first of all, information to give their father about the business he had transacted in America he wouldn't care for a lot of women in the room. When Delia reported this speech to Mr. Dosson that gentleman protested that he wasn't in any hurry for the business; what he wanted to find out most was whether Mr.
Dosson was pleased at this; nevertheless he broke out suddenly: "Look here, you know; if you've got anything to say that you don't think very acceptable you had better say it to ME." Gaston changed colour, but his reply was checked by Delia's quick return. She brought the news that her sister would be obliged if he would go into the little dining-room he would find her there.
Delia had a greater direct knowledge of life and Francie a wider acquaintance with literature and art. Mr. Dosson had not perhaps a full perception of his younger daughter's beauty: he would scarcely have pretended to judge of that, more than he would of a valuable picture or vase, but he believed she was cultivated up to the eyes.
Dosson, as we know, was, almost more than anything else, loosely contemplative, and the present occasion could only minister to that side of his nature, especially as, so far at least as his observation of his daughters went, it had not urged him into uncontrollable movement.
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