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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Did you catch that valuable bit of information, Robbie Belle?" "It sounds," spoke Robbie with unexpected astuteness, "as if you are really worrying after all." "Does it?" groaned Berta; "well, then I am an idiot too." She sternly refused to look anxious even when the dressing-gong found the wanderer still absent in the rain.
Many a time when Ernest had been out walking with her on the terrace just before dinner, and the dressing-gong sounded, he had felt almost too ashamed to go in at the summons and leave the poor little governess out there alone with her social disabilities. The gong seemed to raise such a hideous artificial barrier between himself and that delicately-bred, sensitive, cultivated English lady.
And with that, he turned upon his heel and left me. The dressing-gong was just sounding as I walked across to the garage, in order to look through the car and charge the lamps, prior to my night journey. I was wondering what was about to happen. That some coup was to be made that night was very evident.
The dressing-gong boomed through the hotel, but he paid no attention to it. One after another the men in the room got up and sauntered away, but Scott remained motionless, awaiting his brother's pleasure. Sir Eustace finished his letter, and pulled another sheet of paper towards him. Scott made no sign of impatience.
The dressing-gong sounded just as they entered the hall. From a door on the left, there emerged two men, a big man and a little one, in friendly conversation. The big man's back struck Jimmy as familiar. "Oh, father," Molly called. And Jimmy knew where he had seen the back before. The two men stopped. "Sir Thomas," said Molly, "this is Mr. Pitt."
The girls began answering eagerly; some other girls came up and joined the group, all anxious to shake hands with Miss Heath and to get a word of greeting from her. At this moment the dressing-gong for dinner sounded, and the little group moved slowly toward the house.
"I'm well enough to write one letter," she said, "and perhaps to get up in time for lunch to-morrow." She was already tired; perhaps, if she could fix her thoughts on Eric until she fell asleep, she would be spared a second vision of judgement. A dressing-gong sounded in the distance, and she debated whether to abandon her letter to Eric and go down.
"With a heart full of love, "Mother." Lila read the letter, replaced it in the envelope, and walking across the little room threw herself again face downward on the bed. After a while the dressing-gong whirred its tidings through the corridors. Lila slid to her feet and began to walk mechanically toward the mirror. "But Bea laughed. She laughed at me. Mother doesn't know that Bea laughed.
And until the dressing-gong sounded, a continuous teuf-teuf-teuf might have been heard as, one after another, the cars whizzed up to the door. Of course, in a troop of over thirty people, naturally some had kind hearts and good manners, but the prevailing tone of this coterie of crème de la crème was one of pure selfishness and blunt and material brutality.
So now it is her daughter who is stirring the world! With her father's money and her mother's eyes, not to speak of the additional trifles eloquence, enthusiasm, &c. thrown in by the Swedish woman, she ought to find it easy. The dressing-gong of the hotel disturbed a rather sleepy reverie, and sent the Englishman back to his Times.
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