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What foolish, vapid deceit was this that he was going to practice upon that noble, queenly, confiding, generous woman? But would he have dared to talk half-jokingly to such a woman on such a topic? And would it have been honorable without disclosing the WHOLE truth, that they had met secretly before? And was it fair to Susy? dear, innocent, childish Susy! Yet something must be done!
Small wonder that the bridegroom had half-jokingly left his young wife in Elwyn's charge when he had had to go half across the world on business that could not be delayed, while she stayed behind to nurse her father who was ill. It was then, with mysterious, uncanny suddenness, that the mischief had begun.
Turner, half-jokingly, named a very large sum many thousands thinking to frighten him off, but Gillott opened his pocket book, and, to Turner's utter amazement, paid down the money in crisp Bank of England notes.
His wife's fortune permitted that, as well as his wife's ignorance of the disbursements, and of late Loraine's supply of money from America had arrived on a scale of diminuendo. Entertainment was welcome. Half-jokingly and veiled in phrases which she was at liberty to construe as she wished, there had of late been an insidious vein of suggestion in the duke's conversation.
They little knew what was ahead of them, nor what dire perils they were to pass through. Of course Tom had said good-bye to Mary Nestor and half-jokingly, he had promised to bring back a giant of his own, that she might see one outside of a circus. "But, Tom," Mary exclaimed with a laugh, "what will you do with one of the big creatures if you get one?"
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