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Still it was an awful trial too to tell him the upshot of her dishonesty, the confusion she had wrought by her deviation into a crooked path. She was trembling from head to foot by the time she reached Errington's abode.
Errington's eyes dwelt upon her, almost sternly, with the deepest attention, while she spoke. Nor did he break silence at once; he leaned back in his chair, resting one closed hand on the table before him. At last he exclaimed: "I wish you had not told me this! I could not have imagined you capable of such an act."
But she practised an intense economy in many secret and some public ways, and, more especially, she was completely deaf to those appeals of suffering, and sometimes of charlatanry, which besiege our ears in London, so full of wily outcasts and of those who are terribly in need. Mrs. Errington's name figured in no charitable lists.
By Errington's orders the yacht slackened speed, and glided along with an almost noiseless motion, and they were silent, listening to the dash and drip of water that fell invisibly from the toppling crags that frowned above, while the breathless heat and stillness of the air added to the weird solemnity of the scene.
And Duprez waved his hand with an air of entire satisfaction. Errington's brow grew sombre. "This is the story, is it?" he asked at last. "It is enough, is it not?" laughed Duprez. "But, after all, what matter? It will be novel to dine with a mur " "Stop!" said Philip fiercely, with so much authority that the sparkling Pierre was startled. "Call no man by such a name till you know he deserves it.
When they entered the gates, however, she asked him to take the reins. She wanted to look about her, to remark the surroundings of Errington's house. It was a fine place, somewhat flat, perhaps, but beautiful with splendid trees, and a small lake, through which ran the stream in another part of which Cis and Charlie were going to fish.
As she set it down, she gave a keen, covert glance round the room, as though rapidly taking note of the appearance and faces of all the young men, then, with a sort of stiff curtsey, she departed as noiselessly as she had come, not, however, without leaving a disagreeable impression on Errington's mind.
"I mean what all our set's talking about Errington's queer fancy for that actress at the Brilliant." Thelma still gazed at him fixedly. "It is a mistake," she said resolutely, "altogether a mistake. And as you are his friend, Sir Francis, you will please contradict this report which is wrong, and may do Philip harm. It has no truth in it at all " "No truth!" exclaimed Lennox. "It's true as Gospel!
"Just because he doesn't choose to blab out all his private affairs to the world at large, that black-browed female Tartar must needs imagine he has something to conceal. It's damnable! I'd stake my life Errington's as straight as a die and always has been." "You're a good friend, Jerry," said Diana, rather wistfully. "Yes, I am," he returned stoutly. "And so are you, as a rule.
"So far as one can judge from the exterior, remarkably well, and exactly the same as ever. It is rather funny, but they had Renshaw on board too, the son of the big brewer who has bought, or is going to buy, Errington's house in Berkeley Square. I fancy it is not impossible he may come in for Errington's ex-fiancee as well as his ex-residence."
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