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"Are you staying long?" he asked Shelton. "I go on to Halidome's to-morrow; suppose I sha'n't see you there? Good, chap, old Halidome! Collection of etchings very fine!" "No; I 'm staying on," said Shelton. "Ah!" said the stained-glass man, "charming people, the Dennants!" Shelton, reddening slowly, turned his head away; he picked a gooseberry, and muttered, "Yes."
It's ages since I saw you. Yours as ever, Shelton had nothing better to do, for pleasant were his friend Halidome's well-appointed dinners. At seven, therefore, he went to Chester Square. His friend was in his study, reading Matthew Arnold by the light of an electric lamp.
They went their way, and before the listener's eyes there rose Antonia's face, with its unruffled brow; Halidome's, all health and dignity; the forehead of the goggle-eyed man, with its line of hair parted in the centre, and brushed across.
Shelton's own brown face, nondescript nose, and his amiable but dogged chin contrasted strangely with the clear-cut features of the stained-glass man. "I hear from Halidome that you're going to stand for Parliament," the latter said. Shelton, recalling Halidome's autocratic manner of settling other people's business, smiled. "Do I look like it?" he asked.
"No, Bird," he said, resuming his urbanity, and gathering his coat-tails in his hands; "it's all very well to talk, but wait until you're married. A man must be master, and show it, too." An idea occurred to Shelton. "Look here, Hal," he said: "what should you do if your wife got tired of you?" The expression on Halidome's face was a mixture of amusement and contempt.
He turned to Halidome and whispered: "Can you stand that old woman?" His friend fixed his fine eyes on him wonderingly. "What old woman?" "Why, the old ass with the platitudes!" Halidome's countenance grew cold, a little shocked, as though he had been assailed in person. "Do you mean Pirbright?" he said. "I think he's ripping."
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