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He dared not buy a proper horse and dogcart, because he dared not bring such an equipage to the front door of his mother's four-and-sixpenny cottage. So he had taken to cabs. In all exterior magnificence and lavishness he equalled even the great Harold Etches, of whom he had once been afraid; and like Etches he became a famous habitué of Llandudno pier.
And the reason was that the entire population of the Town Hall was heartily engaged in pretending that never in its life had it been seen after seven o'clock of a night apart from a dress-suit. Denry observed with joy that, while numerous middle-aged and awkward men wore red or white silk handkerchiefs in their waistcoats, such people as Charles Fearns, the Swetnams, and Harold Etches did not.
And Weston is a wise man and a kind man, and when she turned to him she found comfort. Do you blame her?" "No," I said, half hesitating. "After all, it's better, too," Tim went on. "What could you have given her, Mark or I, compared to what his wealth means to a woman like Mary?" Wealth was not happiness. Money was not peace. Etches were a delusion. Now she had them.
Now, this is the sort of thing that can only be seen and appreciated in a district like the Five Towns, where families spring into splendour out of nothing in the course of a couple of generations, and as often as not sink back again into nothing in the course of two generations more. The Etches family is among the best known and the widest spread in the Five Towns.
But whereas Etches lived with his wife in a superb house at Bleakridge, Denry lived with his mother in a ridiculous cottage in ridiculous Brougham Street. He had a regiment of acquaintances and he accepted a lot of hospitality, but he could not return it at Brougham Street. His greatness fizzled into nothing in Brougham Street.
Not a trace of the formula in which Ruth Earp had instructed him! He forgot all such trivialities. "I've won that fiver, Mr Harold Etches," he said to himself. The mouths of aldermen inadvertently opened. Mr Duncalf blenched. "It's nearly over, isn't it?" said the Countess, still efficiently smiling. She did not recognise Denry. In that suit he might have been a Foreign Office attaché.
The blue heron in its solitary and stately watchfulness is occasionally seen, and again etches itself like a Japanese picture against the pure blue of the sky. The American bittern is also seen rarely. Kingfishers are found, both on the lakes and streams.
Thus, as the good genius of Chapel Alley and Carpenter's Square, saving the distressed from the rigours of the open street, rescuing the needy from their tightest corners, keeping many a home together when but for him it would have fallen to pieces always smiling, jolly, sympathetic, and picturesque Denry at length employed the five-pound note won from Harold Etches.
It was on this note that the waltz finished. He could not comprehend why she had so laughed, save on the supposition that he was more humorous than he had suspected. Anyhow, he laughed too, and they parted laughing. And his unpremeditated stroke with the Countess was similar. When he had got ten yards on his way towards Harold Etches and a fiver he felt something in his hand.
At the bottom they had a swerve skid; but as there was plenty of room for eccentricities, nothing happened except that the car tried to climb the hill again. 'Well, if I'd known, observed Uncle Dan, 'if I'd guessed as you were reservin' this treat for th' owd uncle, I'd ha' walked. The Etches blood in him was pretty cool, but his nerve had had a shaking. Then Harold could not restart the car.
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