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You can no doubt be of the greatest use to us; and as to thinking you a brute I do nothing of the kind, nor does Mr Evelin, I am sure. I believe you make yourself out to be a great deal worse than you really are. Well, Robert, what is this, my boy? Is it true that your leg is broken?" "I am afraid it is, sir," answered Bob, who looked very pale, and was evidently suffering great pain.
"Where would you like me to begin, Mr Evelin?" asked Bob. "At the beginning of course, my dear fellow," laughingly answered Lance. "I want to know everything. Do you remember being found on board the wreck?" "Sometimes I think I do; and at other times I think it must be only the recollection of a dream which has produced a more than usually strong impression upon me," answered Bob.
Her sister, Beatrice, a pale, delicate and sensitive shadow who adored her, and her guardian, Bruce Evelin, a well-known Q.C. now retired from practice, had gone into the country to visit some friends. Rosamund had also been invited, and much wanted, for there was a party in the house, and her gaiety, her beauty, and her fine singing made her a desirable guest; but she had "got out of it."
Even the fair young man went away to seek consolation below. Rosamund had descended with Bruce Evelin and Esme Darlington. There was a pleasant and almost an intimate hush in the room. "I heard you were to be in Paris this month," Dion said. "I came back to-day." "Aren't you tired?" "No. I want to speak to you about Jimmy, if you don't mind."
Your story is so interesting that I think I shall make a few notes of it for the benefit of a literary friend of mine; so if you meet with it in print some day you must not be very much surprised." And as Bob saw him shortly afterwards, note-book in hand; and as this story actually is in print, it is to be presumed that Mr Lance Evelin really carried out his expressed intention.
Evelin of course returned at once to the shipyard without condescending to bandy words with the Greek, and the work went forward as usual. Ralli soon had a pair of sheers rigged, and in due time one of the guns was slung ready for hoisting.
"There," he added, as they once more reached the rocks, "that'll do, mates; lay me down here in the shade, and tell Mr Evelin I'm hurt presently, you know; after he's brought the little girl round." In the meantime Lance, almost as much concerned as Captain Staunton, had hurried after the latter, and offered his assistance, which was thankfully accepted.
He knows not the exquisite and melancholy charm, full of nuances and of the most fragile and evanescent subtleties, which Constantinople holds for those who know her and love her well. The defense was evidently going to make much of Mrs. Clarke's passion for the city on the Bosporus. Daventry had alluded to it more than once, and Bruce Evelin had said, "Mrs.
Oh, if I ever live through this week!" "That's the way I feel," Lois agreed, forlornly. "I've a million and one things to do and no time. Think of it, Field Day to-morrow!" "And that means, we ought to be practicing all day to-day," Evelin said. "Exactly, but if I practice to-day, I won't know my part for the play. I do wish Portia hadn't talked so much," Lois answered.
"Certainly," said Bob, "I'm one, Mr Evelin, if you will have me. I am something like Captain Staunton; I'm no hand at a piano, but I can sing, and I know a recitation or two which I think may serve to raise a good- humoured laugh."
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