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Valeria quoted some lines that she said expressed Professor Fortescue's idea. "Carry me out into the wind and the sunshine, Into the beautiful world!" Lady Engleton's artistic instinct seemed to occupy itself less with the interpretation of Nature than with the appreciation of the handiwork of man. The lines did not stir her.
Forrest came a little further into the room. The thunder of the sea seemed almost above their heads. The little lamp on the table by Engleton's side gave little more than a weird, unnatural light around the circle in which he sat. "That isn't quite all that we came to say," Forrest remarked coldly. "To tell you the truth we have had enough of playing jailer."
"Who's the gentleman as she had set her heart on?" a romantic young woman enquired. "Oh, it's only wot they say," said Dodge judicially; "it's no use a listening to all one hears not by a long way." "You 'ad it from Lord Engleton's coachman, didn't you?" prompted Mrs. Gullick. "Which he heard it said by the gardener at Mr. Jordan's, as Miss Marion was always about with Mr. Fleming."
"Because you could rob one another," Engleton said. "It would be interesting to watch." A few seconds intense silence followed Engleton's words. It was the Princess who spoke first. Her tone was composed but chilly. She looked toward Engleton with steady eyes. "My dear Lord Ronald," she said, "is this a joke? I am afraid my sense of humour grows a little dull at this hour of the morning."
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