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"Nobody looks at it, you notice," said Elgar, when they had stood on the spot for five minutes. "Nobody." Yet as soon as they had spoken, an old and a young lady came in front of them, and they heard the young lady say, as she pointed to Mallard's canvas: "Where is that, mamma?" "Oh, Land's End, or some such place," was the careless reply.
Even if Elgar accompanied him to Amalfi, it would only be for a few days; there was no preventing the fellow's eventual return his visits to the villa, perhaps to Mrs. Gluck's. Again imbecile and insensate What did it all matter? He stopped short. He would sit down and write a letter to Mrs. Baske. A pretty complication, that! What grounds for such a letter as he meditated? The devil!
Lessingham had approached with some one else who wished to be presented to Mrs. Elgar, and the novelist could only bite his lips as he moved away to find a more reverent listener. It was not often that Cecily trifled in this way. As a rule, her manner of speech was direct and earnest.
Or he took his pocket-knife, and drove the point into the flesh of his arm, satisfied when the pang became intolerable. Then again a loss of all control in mere frenzy, the desire to shout, to yell.... Elgar was out of the house at sunrise. He went down to the Chiaia, loitered this way and that, always in the end facing towards Posillipo.
Miriam's mind was far away from Chelsea; it haunted the Via del Babuino, and the familiar rooms of the hotel where Cecily was living. Just after the clock had struck ten, a servant entered and said that Mr. Elgar wished to see her. Reuben was in evening dress. "What! you are alone?" he said on entering. "I'm glad of that. I supposed I should have to meet the people.
And all the land lay waste and neglected, and, as we rode over Cannington hill, a broken helm rolled from my horse's hoof from among the grass of the roadside. Those things brought back to us the memory of war and trouble even in our new happiness; and there, over the river, was the new-made mound over Elgar, the man who had died for his land, and not in vain.
"Then you know nothing of her reason for not doing so?" "Nothing whatever." Elgar became silent. The artist, after moving about quietly, turned to question him with black brows. "Hasn't it occurred to you that she may have joined Mrs. Lessingham in the country?" "She has taken nothing not even a travelling-bag." "You come, of course, from the Spences' house?" Elgar replied with an affirmative.
Clifford Marsh, who proved interesting, but not unfathomable; he belonged to a class with which she was tolerably familiar. Reuben Elgar, she perceived at once, was not without characteristics linking him to that same group of the new generation, but it seemed probable that its confines were too narrow for him.
Are you such a feeble creature that you must be at the mercy of every childish whim, and ruin yourself for lack of courage to do what you know you ought to do? If instability of nature had made such work of me as it has of you, I'd cut my throat just to prove that I could at least once make my hand obey my will!" "It would be but the final proof of weakness," replied Elgar, laughing.
"Oh, it isn't quite so bad with me as all that," replied Elgar, as if he slightly resented this interference with his private affairs. Yet he had yesterday, in the flow of his good-humour, all but confessed that it was high time he looked out for an income. Mallard examined him askance.
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