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He knew by this time exactly what scholarships and distinction Hirst enjoyed, and had formed a very high opinion of his capacities. But Hirst merely drew his lips together very tightly and made no reply. Ridley conjectured that it was now permissible for him to take his leave. Politeness required him to thank Mrs.
They staggered to seats in the corner, from which they had a view of the room. It was still surging, in waves of blue and yellow, striped by the black evening-clothes of the gentlemen. "An amazing spectacle," Hirst remarked. "Do you dance much in London?" They were both breathing fast, and both a little excited, though each was determined not to show any excitement at all. "Scarcely ever. Do you?"
"Look here, Hirst," said Terence, "there's nothing to be done for two hours." He consulted the sheet pinned to the door. "You go and lie down. I'll wait here. Chailey sits with Rachel while Helen has her luncheon." It was asking a good deal of Hirst to tell him to go without waiting for a sight of Helen.
Hirst wrote to say that the children were now in the best of health, that scarlet-fever germs had long ago been disinfected away, and that all the family were looking forward eagerly to her return. Patty thought there never had been such a meeting, or such glorious holidays as followed afterwards.
"I see what you mean," she said, "but I don't agree. I do know why I care for people, and I think I'm hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they've got in them. Now I think you must be rather splendid; but not Mr. Hirst." Hewlet shook his head. "He's not nearly so unselfish, or so sympathetic, or so big, or so understanding," Evelyn continued. Hewet sat silent, smoking his cigarette.
Hirst was a dreadful young man, and that although he had such an air of being clever he probably wasn't as clever as Arthur, in the ways that really matter. "Wasn't it Wilde who discovered the fact that nature makes no allowance for hip-bones?" enquired Hughling Elliot.
Rachel stated that she was twenty-four years of age, the daughter of a ship-owner, that she had never been properly educated; played the piano, had no brothers or sisters, and lived at Richmond with aunts, her mother being dead. "Next," said Hirst, having taken in these facts; he pointed at Hewet. "I am the son of an English gentleman. I am twenty-seven," Hewet began.
"There's room for us all here," he said. When Hirst had seated himself comfortably, he said: "Did you congratulate the young couple?" It appeared that, coming to the same spot a few minutes after Hewet and Rachel, Helen and Hirst had seen precisely the same thing. "No, we didn't congratulate them," said Hewet. "They seemed very happy."
"There can't be two opinions about that, I imagine," said Hirst, hopping briskly across the room, "unless you're in love that fat woman Warrington?" he enquired. "Not one fat woman all fat women," Hewet sighed. "The women I saw to-night were not fat," said Hirst, who was taking advantage of Hewet's company to cut his toe-nails. "Describe them," said Hewet.
He pointed to his boots which were white with dust, while a dejected flower drooping in his buttonhole, like an exhausted animal over a gate, added to the effect of length and untidiness. He was introduced to the others. Mr. Hewet and Mr. Hirst brought chairs, and tea began again, Susan pouring cascades of water from pot to pot, always cheerfully, and with the competence of long use.
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