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And, I suppose, owing to our knockabout sort of intimacy, she has adopted a protective, motherly attitude towards me. In her great, spacious, kind way, she gives you the impression that she owns Jaffery Chayne, and knows exactly what is for his good. Women's ways are wonderful but weird." He must have thought himself vastly clever with his alliterative epigram.
There were not many spruce young gentlemen who, after a week's residence in that establishment, did not adopt a peculiarly deferential attitude towards Liosha. "Still," said Jaffery, "I think you ought to have somebody, you know." "If you're so keen on a dragon," replied Liosha defiantly, "why not take on the job yourself?" "I? Good Lord! Ho! ho! ho!"
A colleague of his once told me that he had seen Jaffery in a nasty row in Caracas during a revolution, bend from his saddle and wrench up two murderous villains by the armpits, one in each hand, and dash their heads together over his horse's neck. But that is the sort of story that Jaffery himself never told.
"I knew nothing of her intentions till Thursday morning. Then she came with her hat on and asked for her bill and said her things were packed and ready to be brought downstairs." "What address did she give to the cabman?" Mrs. Jardine did not know. She rang for the luggage porter. Jaffery repeated his question. "Westminster Abbey, sir," answered the man. I laughed. It seemed rather comic.
We argued until a red, grinning Jaffery, beaming like the fiery sun now about to set, appeared winding his way through the tables, followed by the black-bearded, grey-eyed sea captain. "It's all fixed up," said he, taking his seat. "The Cap'en understands the whole position. If you want to come to 'Jerusalem and Madagascar and North and South Amerikee, come."
Impulsively she flew to Jaffery and put her arms round his vast shoulders he was sitting, otherwise she could not have done it and hugged him. "You're a blessed, blessed dear," she said; and ashamed of this exhibition of sentiment she bolted from the room. Jaffery, looking very shy and uncomfortable, suggested a game of billiards.
He had clear, unblinking, grey-green eyes, the colour of a stormy sea before the dawn. I was for surrendering him my seat next Liosha, but with a courteous "Pray don't," he quickly established himself on the small seat facing us, hitherto occupied by Jaffery. Jaffery jumped up in front next the chauffeur and leaned over the partition. The car started. "Captain and I are old shipmates."
"If I had got hold of that man this morning I think I would have killed him." Since leaving Havre we had not referred to unhappy things. "It would have served him right," said Jaffery. "I did strike him once." "Oh?" said I. "Yes." She looked out to sea. There was a pause. I longed to hear the details of the scene, which could not have lacked humorous elements. But she left them to my imagination.
"But how can she be such a thundering idiot as to swallow it?" asked Jaffery. I was going to remark that women would believe anything, but Barbara's eye was upon me.
"As happy," said I, "as a mutual admiration society of two people can possibly be." She rebuked me for a tinge of cynicism in my estimate. They were both of them dears and the marriage was genuine Heaven-made goods. I avowed absolute agreement. "But what would have happened," she said reflectively, "if Jaffery had come along first and there had been no question of Adrian.
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