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Had the Hartopp not possessed a convenient husband, Natica would have arranged for another companion. But even she had not dared to plan her coup alone, with her chosen instrument of wifely retaliation. Through it all, she had confidently counted on me, a discreet background, a pliant puppet. She could not know what Drayton might do, after they had eyed one another from different tables.
Grundy gives them credit for, but always provided that your talents be not such as to excite their envy, nor your opinions such as to offend their prejudices. MR. HARTOPP. "You take an interest, you say, in literary institutes, and have studied the subject?"
George beckoned to Hartopp to come also and look within; and as the worthy trader peeped over his shoulder, the clergyman said, whisperingly, "Is there not something about a man's home which attests his character? No 'pleading guilty' here."
Separately, by different roads, Vernon's jersey pulled half over his head, the boys repaired to Number Five Study. Little Hartopp and King, I am sorry to say, leaned over the banisters of King's landing and watched. 'Ve-ry human, said little Hartopp. 'Your virtuous Winton, having got himself into trouble, takes it out of my poor old Paddy.
'And at the end of seven years how often have I said it? Hartopp went on, 'seven years of two hundred and twenty days of six hours each, your victims go away with nothing, absolutely nothing, except, perhaps, if they've been very attentive, a dozen no, I'll grant you twenty one score of totally unrelated Latin tags which any child of twelve could have absorbed in two terms.
WAIFE. "DO you think so: you have children of your own, sir? of her age, too? Eh! eh!" MR. HARTOPP. "Yes; I know all about children, better, I think, than Mrs. H. does. What is the complaint?" WAIFE. "The doctor says it is low fever." MR. HARTOPP. "Caused by nervous excitement, perhaps." "Yes: that's what he says, nervous excitement."
He was on a still lower step of the ladder than the itinerant manager. Nor, though she had so mortally injured the forlorn cripple in the eyes of Mr. Hartopp, had she any deliberate purpose of revenge to gratify against him! On the contrary, if she viewed him with contempt, it was a contempt not unmixed with pity.
And I obediently piled the gilt parlor furniture in corners. The Hartopp fluttered anxiously around Natica the while. She was a woman, and she was beginning to half understand. "Please," she said, touching Natica's arm. "Jim's been drinking, and he's very rough when he's been drinking. We've all been foolish, but only foolish, remember. Jim and I sail for London next week.
I pass over the joyous meeting betwen Waife and Sophy. I pass over George's account to his fair cousin of the scene he and Hartopp had witnessed, in which Waife's innocence had been manifested and his reasons for accepting the penalties of guilt had been explained. The first few agitated days following Waife's return have rolled away.
In any one of the forty-eight hours ensuing, I might have rung up the Draytons' on the telephone, and told her that I had come to my senses. But I didn't do anything of the sort. Instead, I hunted up a newspaper chap I knew, and he put me next to "Boiler-plate" Hartopp at the Metropole. The bruiser wasn't as bad sort as I had fancied him.
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