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All the men looked at Charlotte, on whose face a delicate nervous blush thereupon made its appearance. ''Pon my word there is a likeness, now I think of it, said Havill. Paula bent down to Charlotte and whispered: 'Forgive my rudeness, dear. He is not a nice enough person to be like you. He is really more like one or other of the old pictures about the house.
Havill remembered how the lad had pointed to his breast, and said that his secret was literally kept there. The architect was too much of a provincial to have quenched the common curiosity that was part of his nature by the acquired metropolitan indifference to other people's lives which, in essence more unworthy even than the former, causes less practical inconvenience in its exercise.
Looking in a side direction, he saw Havill idling slowly up to him over the silent grass. Havill's knowledge of the appointment had brought him out to see what would come of it. When he neared Dare, but was still partially hidden by the boughs from the third of the party, the former simply pointed to De Stancy upon which Havill stood and peeped at him. 'Is she within there? he inquired.
Havill and Dare retired to the trees. When the dance ended Somerset and his partner emerged from the tent, and slowly moved towards the tea-house. Divining their goal Dare seized Havill's arm; and the two worthies entered the building unseen, by first passing round behind it. They seated themselves in the back part of the interior, where darkness prevailed.
Paula and Somerset were dancing together. 'That proves nothing, said Dare. 'Look at their rapt faces, and say if it does not, sneered Havill. Dare objected to a judgment based on looks alone. 'Very well time will show, said the architect, dropping the tent-curtain.... 'Good God! a girl worth fifty thousand and more a year to throw herself away upon a fellow like that she ought to be whipped.
He lay awake till the clock reached those still, small, ghastly hours when the vital fires burn at their lowest in the human frame, and death seizes more of his victims than in any other of the twenty-four. Havill could bear it no longer; he got a light, went down into his office and wrote the note subjoined.
Somerset, said Havill, 'since we first met an unexpected rivalry has arisen between us! But I dare say we shall survive the contest, as it is not one arising out of love. Ha-ha-ha! He spoke in a level voice of fierce pleasantry, and uncovered his regular white teeth. Somerset supposed him to allude to the castle competition? 'Yes, said Havill.
'Perhaps you would like to see them? he said to the creditor. The latter offered no objection, and all three went into the drawing-office. 'It will certainly be a magnificent structure, said the creditor, after regarding the elevations through his spectacles. 'Stancy Castle: I had no idea of it! and when do you begin to build, Mr. Havill? he inquired in mollified tones.
''Tis her very own person's settled upon the hairs of her head for ever. 'O nation! Then if I were the man I shouldn't care for such a one-eyed benefit as that, said Dairyman Jinks, turning away to listen to the talk on his other hand. 'Is that true? asked the gentleman-farmer in broadcloth. 'It is sufficiently near the truth, said Havill.
'Ho, ho, Havill! "Staunch friend" is good especially after "an iconoclast and Vandal by blood" "monstrosity in the form of a Greek temple," and so on, eh! 'Sir, you have the advantage of me. Perhaps you allude to that anonymous letter? 'O-ho, Havill! repeated the boy-man, turning his eyes yet further towards the zenith.
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