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"I know you are not offended," he murmured. "Are you?" She knew she was not, too; but she merely shrugged. "Then why do you ask me, Mr. Dysart?" "Because you have such pretty shoulders," he replied seriously. "What an idiotic reply to make!" "Why? Don't you think you have?" "What?" "Pretty shoulders." "I don't think anything about my shoulders!"
There remained only Duane, Rosalie Dysart, Grandcourt, and Sylvia Quest, a rather subdued and silent group on the terrace, unresponsive to Scott's unfeigned gaiety to find himself comparatively alone and free to follow his own woodland predilections once more. "A cordial host you are," observed Rosalie; "you're guests are scarcely out of sight before you break into inhuman chuckles."
"I'll bet dancing steps is wicked, for you never was so mean before in your life, so! And you didn't dance near so pretty as Winnie, and you needn't think you ever will, for you never will!" "Oh! I won't, won't I?" said Lu, teasingly. "No, you won't. I won't be wicked and say you are nice, for you're horrid." "You're wicked this minute, Kathie Dysart, for you're mad."
I don't know what it all means; I read columns about poor Jack Dysart words and figures and technical phrases and stock quotations and it means nothing, and I understand nothing of it save that it is all a fierce outcry against him and against the men with whom he was financially involved.
Dysart, in a velvet dressing-gown knotted in close about his waist, looked over the servant's shoulders and saw Quest standing there in the hall, leering at him. For a moment nobody spoke; Dysart took the offered card mechanically, glanced at it, looked at Quest, and nodded dismissal to the servant. When he and the other man stood alone, he said in a low, uncertain voice: "Get out of here!"
Would you mind taking me across to the house?" He cast a swift, anxious glance at Geraldine; her vivid colour, the splendour of her eyes, her feverish laughter were ominous. With her were Gray and Sylvia, rather noisy in their gaiety, and the boisterous Pink 'uns, and Jack Dysart, lingering near, the make-up on his face in ghastly contrast to his ashen pallor and his fixed and unvaried grin.
I couldn't very easily break one.... It is that way with me, Mallett.... Besides, when I think, perhaps, that Jack Dysart is a trifle overbearing and too free with his snubs, I go somewhere and cool off; and I think that in his heart he must like me as well as I do him because, sooner or later, we always manage to drift together again.... That is one reason why I am so particular about his wife."
On escaping the gate they fell in with divers persons going along the road, who, by their discourse, were returning home to Cupar, and they walked leisurely with them till they came to a cross-road, where my grandfather, giving Master Kilspinnie a nodge, turned down the one that went to the left, followed by him, and it happened to be the road to Dysart and Crail.
Duane bent gently over the shrivelled hand. "I won't detain you from your drive, Mr. Dysart. I hope you will have a pleasant one. It is a pleasure to know my grandfather's old friends. Good-bye."
The son stood in his wet clothes, haggard, lined, ghastly in contrast to the startling red of his lips, looking at his smirking father: then he leaned over and touched a bell. "Who was it who called on Mrs. Dysart?" he asked, as a servant appeared. "Miss Quest, sir," said the man, accepting the cue with stolid philosophy. "Did Miss Quest leave any message?" "Yes, sir: Miss Quest desired Mrs.
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