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I've found Gedge to be a beast, and I'm very honourably in love with Gedge's daughter, and I've asked her to marry me. I attach some value, Major, to your opinion of me, and I want you, to know these two facts." I again expressed my gratification at learning his honourable intentions towards Phyllis, and I commended his discovery of Gedge's fundamental turpitude. I cannot say that I was cordial.
Reginald, swelling with the indignation Gedge's story had roused in him, turned his back and made no answer. Nothing, as he might have known by this time, could have irritated Mr Durfy more. "Look here, young gentleman," said the latter, coming close up to Reginald's side and hissing the words very disagreeably in his ear, "when I ask a question in this shop I expect to get an answer; mind that.
"I'd advise you to keep your eye open for a new berth, if you get the chance; and, I say, if you can only hear of one for two!" This last appeal went to Reginald's heart, and he inwardly resolved, if Mr Medlock turned out to be as amiable a man as he took him for, to put in a word on Gedge's behalf as well as his own at the coming interview.
One stiff ache from head to foot, I lay ignominiously on the sand, and watched Exploding Eggs, with a piece of box not bigger than a fat man's shirt-front, take wave after wave, standing on the board, dashing far across the breakers to the shore, with never a failure, while Gedge's little half-breed daughter, a beautiful fairy-like creature, darted upon the sea as a butterfly upon a zephyr.
"After all," he said, "Durfy may think better of it." "Upon my word I hardly know whether I want him to," said Reginald, "except for young Gedge's sake and mother's. Anyhow, I'll wait and see, if you like." Mr Durfy was there when he arrived, bearing no traces of last night's fracas, except a scowl and a sneer, which deepened as he caught sight of his adversary.
The incarnate devil! And Sir Anthony?" "Pretended to treat Gedge's story as a lie, threw into the fire without reading it an incriminating letter possibly the letter that Phyllis saw, ordered Gedge out of the house and, like a great gentleman, went through the ceremony." "Does Leonard know?" "Not that I'm aware of," said I. "He must be told.
At this period, the unmilitary youth of England were not affectionately coddled by their friends. Still, I was curious to see whether Gedge's depravity extended beyond a purely political scope. I questioned my young visitor. "Oh, it's nothing to do with abstract opinions," said he, thinning away the butt-end of his cigarette. "And nothing to do with treason, or anything of that kind.
He strove to pacify her by the old arguments which hitherto she had accepted. Suddenly she cried: "If you don't marry me I am disgraced for ever." And this brought them to a dead halt. When he came to this point I remembered the diabolical accuracy of Gedge's story. Boyce said: "There is one usual reason why a man should marry a woman to save her from disgrace. Is that the reason?"
Boyce's abrupt retirement from Wellingsford before the war; his cancellation by default of his engagement; his morbid desire, a year ago, to keep secret his presence in his own house; Gedge's veiled threat to me in the street to use a way "that'll knock all you great people of Wellingsford off your high horses;" his extraordinary interview with Boyce; his generally expressed hatred of Boyce.
Still, from Gedge's point of view her defection was a grievance; but that she could throw in her lot openly with the powers of darkness was nothing less than an outrage. I suppose, in a kind of crabbed way, the crabbed fellow was fond of Phyllis. She was pretty. She had dainty tricks of dress. She flitted, an agreeable vision, about his house.
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