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Dyck's tempestuous nature, the poetry and imagination of him, would quickly respond to French culture, to the new orders of the new day in France. Meanwhile, he must be soaked in drugged drink. Already the wine had played havoc with him; already stupefaction was coming over his senses.
He thought her fingers were wonderfully soft, warm, and full of life; and she thought that his was the hand of a master-of a master in the field of human effort. That is, if she thought at all, for Dyck's warm, powerful touch almost hypnotized her. The old peasant understood, however. He was standing on his feet now. He was pale and uncertain. He lifted up his bag, and threw it over his shoulder.
It might be one thing or another, but in view of Dyck's training it would perhaps be the Enniscorthy touch. Again and again Dyck pressed his antagonist backward, seeking to muddle his defence and to clear an opening for his own deadly stroke; but the other man also was a master, and parried successfully.
As she was about to pass beyond a clump of pimento bushes, she turned her head towards the two, and there was that in her eyes which few ever see and seeing are afterwards the same. It was a look of inquiry, or revelation, of emotion which went to Dyck's heart. "No, she does not know the truth," Mrs. Llyn said. "But it has been hard hiding it from her.
Miles Calhoun was bent upon finding what the story of the quarrel was; for his own lawyer had told him that Dyck's refusal to give the cause of the dispute would affect the jury adversely, and might bring him imprisonment for life. After the formalities of their meeting, Miles Calhoun said: "My son, things are black, but they're not so black they can't be brightened.
At last, a year later, in 1632, Van Dyck's pride was propitiated by receiving a formal invitation from Charles I., through Sir Kenelm Digby, to visit England, and this time the painter had no cause to complain of an unworthy reception. He was lodged by the king among his artists at Blackfriars, having no intercourse with the city, save by water.
No, no, some one else killed him, not you. You couldn't have done it. You would have fought him fought him as you did Lord Mallow, and in fighting you might have killed him, but your sword never let out his life when he was defenceless never." A look of intense relief, almost of happiness, came to Dyck's face. "That is like you, Sheila, but it does not cure the trouble.
It had never occurred to him that Dyck Calhoun could be a rival, till he had heard of Dyck's visit to Sheila and her mother, till he had heard Sheila praise him at the first dinner he had given to the two ladies on Christmas Day.
The words were used by Miles Calhoun, Dyck's father, as a greeting to him on his return from the day's sport. Now, if there was a man in Ireland who had a narrow view and kept his toes pointed to the front, it was Miles Calhoun. His people had lived in Connemara for hundreds of years; and he himself had only one passion in life, which was the Protestant passion of prejudice.
"There's the king's army," said Michael. "They make good officers in it." A strange, half-sore smile came to Dyck's thin lips. "Michael," said he, "give up these vain illusions. I was condemned for killing a man not in fair fight. "I can't enter the army as an officer, and you should know it.
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