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"Oh, then do you assume that the the game has already begun?" "It usually opens that way, I believe." "And where does it end, Mr. Dysart?" "That is for you to say," he replied in a lower voice. "Oh! And what are the rules?" "The player who first falls really in love loses. There are no stakes. We play as sportsmen for the game's sake. Is it understood?"
"Dysart!" said Duane, inspired, and, turning painfully red, begged Wilton's pardon. "You've sure got a disconcerting way with you," admitted Wilton, very much out of countenance. "It was rotten bad taste in me " Wilton grinned with a wry face: "Nobody is standing much on ceremony these days.
He moistened his lips again; leaned forward: "I think I know one thing about you, anyway; and I'm not afraid you'd ever use any words of mine against me " "Don't say them!" retorted Duane sharply. But Dysart went on: "You have no respect for me. You found out one thing about me that settled me in your opinion. Outside of that, however, you never liked me." "That is perfectly true." "I know it.
Confronting him on a big improvised easel was the full-length, half-reclining portrait of Rosalie Dysart a gay, fascinating, fly-away thing after the deliberately artificial manner of the French court painters who simpered and painted a hundred and fifty years ago.
"And, even if she were to be prayed back again, she wad never be the creature she was again. A coal black lire, and singit ee-brees, wadna set her auld lovers in Christ's Kirk in a bleeze again." "They should watch the smoking field o' Dysart," cried Widow Lindsay. "If she come again ava, it will be through that deil's porch. But what noise is that, Kitty?
I want to see lots and lots of men, not just one.... You don't know all the lonely years I must make up for every minute now, or you wouldn't look at me in such a sulky, bullying way.... Besides do you think I find you a compensation for all those delightful people out yonder?" He glanced up and saw Dysart still watching them. Suddenly he dropped his hand over hers.
Dysart didn't know her name; and, for a moment after she had told him, surprise and a confused sense of resentment silenced her, because she was quite certain now that they had never been properly presented. That negligence of conventions was not unusual in this new world she was entering, she had already noticed; and this incident was evidently another example of custom smilingly ignored.
For a little while they asked and answered those amiably formal questions convention requires under similar circumstances; then Duane spoke of Dysart gravely, because new rumours were rife concerning him, even a veiled hint of possible indictment and arrest.
Tappan nodded. "You, too, of course." For Dysart was one of those types known in society as a "dancing man." He also led cotillions, and a morally blameless life as far as the more virile Commandments were concerned. He said: "That little Seagrave girl is rather fetching." Tappan answered indifferently: "She resembles the general run of this year's output. She's weedy.
Another reason happened to be that he had been in love with her himself when Dysart gracefully shouldered his way between them and married Rosalie Dene. Duane had heard something about it; and he wondered a little at the loyalty to such a friendship that this young man so naïvely confessed. "I'll tell you what I think," said Duane; "I think you're the best sort of an anchor for Rosalie Dysart.
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