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"And Lemuel Image got into the Tilney brook," Mary Ormiston said, laughing a little. "So he did though!" Lord Fallowfeild rejoined, beaming. And then suddenly his complacency suffered eclipse. For, looking at the speaker, he became disagreeably aware of having, on some occasion, said something highly inconvenient concerning this lady to one of her near relations.
For Fallowfeild's always been perfectly decent with me. I know people think him an awfully risky lot, but they're noodles. He's racketed in his day of course he has. But if he'd been more of a hypocrite, people would have talked less. As the man says in the play, it's not the sin but the being found out which makes the scandal. And Fallowfeild was too honest.
"That is very thoughtful of you. I will see Helen and find out " "Oh! don't trouble about her either," Richard put in. Again he studied the jewel-rimmed dial of the little clock. "I found she wanted to go to Newlands to bid Mrs. Cathcart good-bye. It seems Miss St. Quentin is back there for a day or two. So I promised to drive her over as soon as we were quit of the Fallowfeild party."
"I'm glad to know you think so. You see it's a matter in which I'm not very much of a judge." "No no of course not. Queer fellow Calmady," Lord Fallowfeild added to himself. "Uncommonly sharp way he has of setting you down." But just then, to his relief, Lady Calmady, Lady Louisa Barking, and pretty, little Lady Constance Quayle entered the room together. Mr.
But Fallowfeild says their simplicity is just another name for guile, and that he anyway can't conceive a more disconcerting job than fighting a nation of farmers and huntsmen and gamekeepers in their own country, every inch of which they know. People say they've no military science. But so jolly much the better for them.
Lord Fallowfeild knew this, no man better. Yet he was genuinely pleased, impressed even, by the luxury with which his erring son was surrounded, and proceeded to praise his cook, praise his valet's waiting at table, praise some fine old sporting prints upon the wall.
"Well, I don't deny it did occur to me it might work," he admitted. "And after all, you know, one mercy is there's no real vice about his dear old lordship." Lord Fallowfeild fidgeted about the library, his expression that of a well-nourished and healthy, but rather fretful infant. "Oh! ah! well so here you are, Shotover," he said.
"Enchanted to see me, of course, dear Cousin Selina, or he would not have required my return thus urgently. We may take that for said. Meanwhile what strange sprigs of nobility flourish in the local soil here." And she proceeded to give an account of the Fallowfeild party at luncheon more witty, perhaps, than veracious. Helen could be extremely entertaining on occasion.
Always found a fox in that Grimshott gorse of his, eh, Knott?" "Fox that sometimes wasn't very certain of his country," the doctor rejoined. "Hailed from the neighbourhood of the umbrella shop perhaps, and wanted to get home to it." Lord Fallowfeild chuckled. "Capital," he said, "very good capital. Still, it's a great relief to know of a sure find like that. Keeps the field in a good temper.
But at this juncture the conversation suffered interruption by the throwing open of the door and entrance of Madame de Vallorbes. "Pray let no one move," she said, rather as issuing an order than preferring a request for her father, Lord Fallowfeild, all the gentlemen, had risen on her appearance save Richard.
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