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Her brother sat almost opposite them: a tall, spare man, with a somewhat expressionless countenance, except for the aggressive hardness in his eyes. Vane had noticed this look, and it had aroused his dislike, but he had not observed it in the eyes of Miss Horsfield, though it was present now and then. Nor did he realize that while she chatted she was unobtrusively studying him.
"You make me feel that you have something on your mind," she observed at length. "That's a fact." Horsfield hesitated. He was attached to and rather proud of his sister. "Well?" she prompted. He leaned forward confidentially. "See here," he said, "I've always imagined that you would go far, and I'm anxious to see you do so. I shouldn't like you to throw yourself away."
His face, Miss Horsfield decided, was a good one: not exactly handsome, but attractive in its frankness; and she liked the way he had of looking steadily at the person he addressed. Though he had been, as she knew, a wandering chopper, a survey packer, and, for a time, an unsuccessful prospector, there was no coarsening stamp of toil on him.
Horsfield and Gayet according to my desire, and there I took them up, it being almost twelve o'clock, or a little more, and carried them to the King's playhouse, where the doors were not then open; but presently they did open; and we in, and find many people already come in, by private ways, into the pit, it being the first day of Sir Charles Sidly's new play, so long expected, "The Mullberry Guarden," of whom, being so reputed a wit, all the world do expect great matters.
Carroll asked. "Because I felt like doing so." "I needn't remind you that you've an appointment with Horsfield about the smelter; and there's a meeting of the board next day. If we started now and caught the first steamer across, you wouldn't have much time to spare." "That's correct. I shall have to wire from Victoria that I've been detained." Carroll laughed expressively.
Vane broke off, remembering that he had defeated Horsfield; but Jessy laughed encouragingly. "He did so you were opposed to him; but it doesn't follow that I share all his views. Perhaps I ought to be a stauncher partizan." "If you'll be just to both of us, I'll be satisfied."
"I can't make up my mind, and I may postpone the matter indefinitely. It might prove more profitable to ship the ore out for reduction." Horsfield examined his cigar. "Of course, I can't press you; but I may, perhaps, suggest that, as we'll have to work together in other matters, I might be able to give you a quid pro quo." "That occurred to me.
Shortly after they had disappeared, Miss Horsfield came out of another door, and Vane rose when she approached him. He had always found her a pleasant companion. "Mrs. Nairn told me I would find you and the others on the veranda," she informed him. "She said she would join you presently. It is too fine an evening to stay in." "I'm alone, as you see.
"Was she?" responded Vane in a very casual manner; and Evelyn, for no reason that she was willing to recognize, was pleased. She had not been mistaken. Jessy Horsfield was in the automobile, and she had had a few moments in which to study Vane and his companion. The man's look and the girl's expression had struck her as significant; and her lips set in an ominously tight line as the car sped on.
We need only mention the folio volume of Madam Merian of the last century, Harris's Aurelian, the works of Cramer, Stoll, Drury, Hübner, Horsfield, Doubleday and Westwood, and Hewitson, as comprising the most luxurious and costly entomological works.
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