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His voice, too, had that engagingly caressing quality characteristic of him when in good-humour; he really had little to say to Hamil, but being on such excellent terms with himself he said a great deal about nothing in particular; and as he persistently lingered by Hamil's door the latter invited him in.
Her husband glanced musingly out over the lawn where, in their white flannels, Shiela and Hamil were now seated together under a brilliant Japanese lawn umbrella, examining the pile of plans, reports and blue-prints which had accumulated in Hamil's office since his absence. "He seems to like her," nodded Cardross, "I'm sure he does. Why not?" "They were together a good deal, you said last night."
No doubt Hamil's in it already; probably Cardross put him next to a bunch of dreams and he's right in it at this very moment." "With the girl in the red handkerchief," added Malcourt. "I wish we had time." "I believe I've seen that girl somewhere," mused Portlaw.
The bantering smile had died out in Hamil's face; he sat very still, interested, disturbed, and then wondering when his eyes caught the restless manoeuvres of the little hands, constantly in motion, interlacing, eloquent of the tension of self-suppression.
Hamil's curious and half-amused gaze rested on her as he resumed the oars. But when he turned his back and headed the boat shoreward a quick protest checked him, and oars at rest, he turned again, looking inquiringly at her over his shoulder. "I am only rowing you back to the beach," he said. "Don't row me in; I am perfectly able to swim back."
And it came fast when it came; we were under bare poles, too, and I didn't expect any cordiality from the Clearing House; but, Hamil, they classed us with the old-liners, and they acted most decently. As for my little daughter well " And to his own and Hamil's embarrassment his clear eyes suddenly grew dim and he walked forward a step or two winking rapidly at the sky.
So he left the thing on Hamil's mantel, although the latter had no idea what Malcourt meant, or why he made the parting offering. Now he stood there staring at it like a man whose senses waver, and who fixes some object to steady nerve and brain.
Because Gray told me that Acton was forced to borrow such frightful sums at such ruinous rates. And now you need borrow no more, need you? "You have been so good to me both of you. I am afraid you won't believe how dearly I love you. I don't very well see how you can believe it. But it is true. "The light in Mr. Hamil's sick-room seems to be out. I am going to ask what it means.
"Perhaps you have; there are all kinds at Palm Beach, even yours, and," he added with his easy impudence, "I expect to preserve my notions concerning every one of them. Ho! Look at that sheaf of sky-rockets, Billy! Zip! Whir-r! Bang! Great is Diana of the Ephesians! bless her heart!" "Going up like Garret Hamil's illusions," said Portlaw, sentimentally.
He laughed and sauntered off into the house as Hamil's horse was brought around; and Hamil, traversing the terrace, mounted under a running fire of badinage from Shiela and Cecile who had just come from the tennis-courts to attempt some hated embroidery for the charity fair then impending. So he rode away to his duties in the forest, leaving a placid sewing-circle on the terrace.
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