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But on the Common after service, and at luncheon after that, and during the three or four weeks that ensued, he had much to do in reforming his opinions. There were several facts about Olivia Guion that disorientated his points of view and set him looking for new ones.
"I don't know that I've any better reason," Davenant laughed, snipping off the end of his cigar, "than that which leads the ox to his stall because he knows the way." "Good!" Guion laughed, rather loudly. Then, stopping abruptly, he continued, "I fancy you know your way pretty well in any direction you want to go, don't you?" "I can find it if I know where I'm going.
For me the whole thing is very simple. I've offered to lend Mr. Guion a sum of money. It's for him to take or to leave. If he refuses it, I sha'n't be offended; and if he doesn't refuse it " "You'd let him have it, just the same?" "Of course. Why not?" "In spite of all I've said as to what I should feel?" "But I'm not supposed to know anything about that, you know.
"I've thought," he said, after a puff or two at his cigar, "I've thought you seemed to be anticipating something in the way of a hitch." Guion held his cigar with some deliberation over an ash-tray, knocking off the ash with his little finger as though it were a task demanding precision. "You'll know all about it to-morrow, perhaps or in a few days at latest. It can't be kept quiet much longer.
The Bar had Prentiss, John Guion, McNutt, Sharkey, the three Yergers, Anderson, Lake, Brook, Burwell, and many others of distinction, including the erratic H.S. Foote. The entire population was a live one, and every branch of business was pushed with a vim commensurate with the abilities and enterprise of the population.
"As a soldier, so they say, he'll catch up one day with men like Roberts and Kitchener; and as for his private character well, you can judge of it from the fact that he wants to strip himself of all he has so that the Guion name shall owe nothing to any one outside " "Then he's a fool." "From that point of view yes. There are fools of that sort, madame. But there's something more to him."
'I had a passage of five weeks to Smyrna touching at Corfu and Milo and delivering at the former 120,000 Dollars for the Government, found our friend Guion there as much the ladies man as ever. I gave you a line from Tribune myself, I parted from her two days afterwards. After remaining a few days at Smyrna I sailed on a cruizer leaving the Rose there for the protection of the Trade.
"Poor old chap," he said to himself; "a lot he knows about it! It's damned easy to do right when you've got everything your own way." Having everything his own way was the happy position in which he placed Rupert Ashley, seeing he was able to marry Olivia Guion by the simple process of selling an estate.
"When people have done so much harm as as we've done, do you think it's right that they should get off scot-free without punishment?" "I don't know anything about that, Miss Guion. It seems to me I'm not called upon to know. Where we see things going crooked we must butt in and help to straighten them.
He's not a bad old sort, old Ban isn't, though he's a bit of a martinet. Lady Ban is awful a bounder in petticoats. She looks like that." Drusilla pulled down the corners of a large, mobile mouth, so as to simulate Lady Bannockburn's expression, in a way that drew a laugh from every one at the table but the host. Henry Guion remained serious, not from natural gravity, but from inattention.
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