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Doffing his cap once more, the stilt-walker suddenly stopped, and, turning aside, made his way with an almost incredible swiftness across the fen, taking the ditches with huge grotesque strides. Enderby looked back and watched him for a moment curiously. Suddenly the man's words began to repeat themselves in Enderby's head: "To-night the King sleeps at Sutterby on the Wolds.
His companion turned on him swiftly. "My lord," said he, "this is the second time to-day you have slandered this lady." The other lifted his eyebrows. "Is it a slander to say that the King finds a lady charming at any hour o' the clock?" he rejoined. Sir Richard slapped him across the cheek with his glove. "I take a pleasant duty from John Enderby's shoulders, my lord.
That's what the Vanney crowd's kick got them." "Pop, what do you make of Willis Enderby?" "Oh, he's plodding along only a couple of decades behind his time." "A reactionary?" "Didn't I say he was plodding along? A reactionary is immovable except in the wrong direction. Enderby's a conservative." "As a socialist you're against any one who isn't as radical as you are."
One of Enderby's pictures, his one-time famous Astarté, though he knew no more about Astarté than about Montezuma, was hung in a gold frame in the dining-room. Chase was no good at figures and it was Mrs. Hungerford's remark to me, that Enderby's Astarté if found in Regent Street would get three months without the option of a fine, that lured me to her side later.
Enderby's intention that she should always do so, but she considered that it would be well to include her to-night. The last evening spent by Hetty in the drawing-room at the Hall was that one on which she had entertained the company with her mimicries. Then, full of pride and delight in her own powers of giving amusement, she had felt herself in a position to despise all disapproval and dislike.
Margaret laughed at this, and begged him to go home with her; but he preferred stepping over to Mrs Enderby's, where Mr Hope had just been seen to enter. Mr Rowland concluded by saying, that he should accept it as a favour in Miss Ibbotson, as well as Miss Young, if she would steadily refuse to gratify any impertinent curiosity shown by his children, in whatever direction it might show itself.
"But even allowing for his scholarship, he must have put in a deal of work perfecting himself in readiness of speech and accent." "So he did. Therefore the prize must be big. A man of Enderby's caliber doesn't concoct a scheme of such ingenuity, and go into bondage with it, for nothing. Do you belong to the Cosmic Club?" The assistant professor stared. "No," he said.
When he afterwards reflected how artfully the facts and falsehoods were connected, he could no longer wonder at Enderby's convictions, nor at the conduct which proceeded from them. There was in Enderby this morning no undue anger, no contempt which could excite anger in another; no doubt cast by him upon Hope's honour, or Margaret's purity of mind, as the world esteems purity.
They stood stock-still, gaping and staring, while Hope invited Mr Rowland in, and Mr Rowland declined entering; while that gentleman shook hands with the ladies, spoke with Mr Enderby, mounted Mr Enderby's horse, and rode off. They saw Philip turn slowly into the house with the family party, and the door closed, before they thought of giving another groan.
Masters, if you act again in these matters without consulting me, you must find another lawyer; I cannot afford fools for clients" they had to call in a physician and resort to the ancient expedient of bleeding, to save the great man's cerebral arteries from bursting. Toward the public press, Enderby's attitude was the exact reverse of Horace Vanney's.
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