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They, being the rich who, if they chose, could set an example to our Press by subscribing to maintain a Journal superior to the flattering of vile appetites 'all that nauseous matter, Beauchamp stretched his fingers at the sheets Colonel Halkett was holding, and which he had not read 'those Tories, he bowed to the colonel, 'I'm afraid I must say you, sir, are answerable for it.
She was at once aware of that, and she knew the meaning of his glance at Helen, who bent over her work and did not look at them. "How are you?" Halkett said. She found it difficult to answer him, and while she told herself she did not want his admiration, she felt that some show of embarrassment was her due. "I'm very well. No; I won't stay. Helen, may I take Jim?" "If he will go with you."
Devereux spoke of the terrible scene to Cecilia, and Lydiard to Miss Denham. The injured person communicated it to Lord Avonley, who told Colonel Halkett emphatically that his nephew Cecil deserved well of him in having kept command of his temper out of consideration for the family. There was a general murmur of the family over this incident.
Nevil flung his hand out straight to the house. Mr. Romfrey seemed to consent; the colonel shook his head: Nevil insisted. A footman carrying a tea-tray to Miss Halkett received some commission and swiftly disappeared, making Rosamund wonder whether sugar, milk or cream had been omitted. She met him on the first landing, and heard that Mr. Romfrey requested her to step out on the lawn.
"It must be a great disappointment," Thorndyke agreed, suppressing a smile. "It is," said the detective. "Not but what we're glad enough to get these beggars, especially Halkett, or Barton, as he calls himself a mighty slippery customer is Halkett, and mischievous, too but we're not wanting any disappointments just now.
Both were overcome with remorse when Colonel Halkett, putting his head into the room to say good-bye to Beauchamp and place the Esperanza at his disposal for a Winter cruise, chanced to mention in two or three half words the purpose of the earl's visit, and what had occurred. He took it for known already.
She prepared to receive Miss Halkett in the drawing-room, as the guests of the house this evening chanced to be her friends. Madame de Rouaillout's present to her was a photograph of M. de Croisnel, his daughter and son in a group. Rosamund could not bear to look at the face of Renee, and she put it out of sight. But she had looked. She was reduced to look again.
Callahan's reply was another flourish of the hammer, and a sudden outpulling of the throttle-bar; and the superintendent subsided again. But enforced silence and the grindstone of conscious helplessness will sharpen the dullest wit. The swerving lurch of the 1010 around the next curve set Halkett clutching for hand-holds, and the injector lever fell within his grasp.
He had begun to walk in the direction of the disappearing secretary, and they soon came within sight of the rest of the house-party talking and laughing on the lawn. They could see the tall figure and loose mane of the lion-hunter dominating the little group. "By the way," observed Fisher, "when we were talking about Burke and Halkett, I said that a man couldn't very well write with a gun.
But a girl like Cecilia Halkett one can't call her a girl, and it won't do to say Goddess, and queen and charmer are out of the question, though she's both, and angel into the bargain; but, by George! what a woman to call wife, you say; and a man attached to a woman like that never can let himself look small.
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