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He had a mild blue eye, white mutton-chop whiskers, and very thin hands, and his tweed suit was decidedly the worse for wear. "I can't say that I should, Elvira," he replied; "although it is not hard to believe that such a beautiful baby should, prove to be such a er good-looking young woman." "I've always felt very grateful to you for bringing me back," said Honora. "Tut, tut, child," said Mrs.
The chauffeur and Brent leaped in, the bystanders parted with derisive cheers, and away they went through the village, only to announce by another series of explosions a second disaster at the other end of the street. A crowd collected there, too. "Oh, dear!" said Honora, "don't you think we ought to take the train, Mr. Brent? If I were to miss a dinner at my own house, it would be too terrible!"
Just as electrical disturbances are said to be in some way connected with sun spots, so Honora learned that a certain glumness and tendency to discuss expenses on the part of her husband were synchronous with a depression in the market. "I wish you'd learn to go a little slow, Honora," he said one evening. "The bills are pretty stiff this month.
A new automobile, in Chiltern's colours, with his crest on the panel, was panting beside the curb. "I meant to have had it this morning," he apologized as he handed her in, "but it wasn't ready in time." Honora heard him, and said something in reply. She tried in vain to rouse herself from the lethargy into which she had fallen, to cast off the spell.
"Oh, yes," she said breathlessly, "and I shall be curious to know how your your enterprise succeeds." "Honora," he said, "it is only a week since I first met you, but I know my own mind. You are the woman I want, and I think I may say without boasting that I can give you what you desire in life after a while. I love you.
"I shall never be able to go in there and not give it away," he whispered to her on the stairs. "You look like the Cheshire cat in the tree," whispered Honora, laughing, "only more purple, and not so ghostlike." "I know I'm smiling," replied Howard, "I feel like it, but I can't help it. It won't come off.
In vain he pleaded, in caressing undertones, that she should ride with him. Honora had never been on a horse, but she did not tell him so. If she would but drive, or walk-only a little way he would promise faithfully not to forget himself. Honora intimated that the period of his probation had not yet expired. If he waylaid her on the stairs, he got but little satisfaction.
"Doyle Grahame writes me," he explained to Arthur, "that a friend, who wishes to remain unknown, has contributed five thousand dollars to testing my theory of an invasion of Ireland. That makes the expedition a certainty for May." "Then let me volunteer the first for this enterprise," said Arthur blithely. "And me the second," cried Honora with enthusiasm.
Those who are more or less skilled in psychology may attempt to establish a sequence between the events and reflections just related and the fact that, one morning a fortnight later, Honora found herself driving northward on Fifth Avenue in a hansom cab.
Honora knew this, and was indifferent to the wealth of meaning that lay behind their discretion. Milliners and dressmakers read the newspapers and periodicals certain periodicals. Well they knew that the lady they flattered was the future Mrs. Hugh Chiltern. Nothing whatever of an indelicate nature happened. There was no mention of where to send the bill, or of whom to send it to.
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