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Jack was not a short-tempered fellow, but this unprovoked assault startled him out of his usual composure. "You'd better not do that again," said he, glaring at his adversary. Horncastle did not do it again. I don't know what it was, but at those words, and the glare that accompanied them, his foot, already raised for further action, dropped quietly beside the other.
Horncastle, noticing it, "you know you can always tell her later, if necessary." And she added with a charming mischievousness, "As she didn't tell you she was coming, I really don't see why you are bound to tell her that you were here." The sophistry pleased Barker, even though it put him into a certain retaliating attitude towards his wife which he was not aware of feeling. But, as Mrs.
Horncastle's gathering up of her dainty skirts around her had disclosed "it may be a little rough and dusty going to your feet." But Mrs. Horncastle pointed out that she had already irretrievably ruined her shoes and stockings in climbing up to him, although Barker could really distinguish no diminution of their freshness, and that she might as well go on.
I believe he is strictly honorable, but the general opinion of his business insight is not high. They perhaps I ought to say HE have been at least so unlucky that they might have learned prudence. The loss of twenty thousand dollars in three months" "Twenty thousand!" echoed Mrs. Horncastle. "Yes.
But it was Stacy who said "No" in a way that put any further questioning at an end, and Barker was grateful and for the moment disloyal to his Kitty. It was with delight that Mrs. Barker had seen that the attention of the next table was directed to them, and that even Mrs. Horncastle had glanced from time to time at Stacy. But she was not prepared for the evident equal effect that Mrs.
I shouldn't wonder," he added, with a laugh, "although she always declares she isn't one of those 'doting, idiotic mothers, that she found it a little dull without the boy, for all she thought it was better for ME to take him somewhere for a change of air." The situation was becoming more difficult for Mrs. Horncastle than she had conceived.
There was a tap at the door. "Come in." The door opened to a Chinese servant bearing a piece of torn paper with a name written on it in lieu of a card. Mrs. Horncastle took it, glanced at the name, and handed the paper back. "There must be some mistake," she said, "it do not know Mr. Steptoe."
But indeed she had not the chance, had she wished it ever so much, of asking any questions about him from any one likely to know. The Corneys had left Moss Brow at Martinmas, and gone many miles away towards Horncastle.
If he himself a married man and the husband of Kitty was so conscious of her charm, how much greater it must be to the free and INEXPERIENCED Stacy. The italics were in Barker's thought; for in those matters he felt that Stacy and even Demorest, occupied in other things, had not his knowledge. There was no idea or consciousness of heroically sacrificing himself or Mrs. Horncastle in this.
"Well," said the surgeon, "we are old friends, and I don't wish to dispute with you, so I'll tell you what I will do; I will ride the animal to Horncastle, and we will share what he fetches like brothers."
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