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"Been crying?" "Yes." "That bill?" "Yes, that bill, you horrid little boy. There's a long worm in your hair." Kingsmead removed the worm. "Mater been nasty?" "Beastly." "H'm. I say, Bick, I saw Ponty yesterday." Brigit, who had turned and was gazing across the lawn, looked at him without moving her head, a trick which is not at all English. "Did you, now?" "I did. He is dining here, he says.
She could not eat; did not even try, and the little sleep she got from sheer exhaustion, after tramping up and down for hours, was heavy and unrestful. Lady Kingsmead came to her door once or twice, but was not allowed to enter, and went away unprotesting. And then, the third morning, Dr. Long insisted on seeing her. "Humph! Tired, are you? You look it. Tommy is going to Margate to-morrow.
"Wait a minute," replied Carey, who was trembling with excitement, brought on by the responsibilities of his new position. "Let me speak to Doctor Kingsmead." Bostock grunted, and the boy turned to the wounded man. "Did you hear what this wretch said?" he asked.
"Come with me to my room now, Tommy, and I will play for you. Vous permettez, madame?" Lady Kingsmead bowed graciously, but when the door closed, frowned with disgust, and putting Maeterlinck on the table, drew Claudine from under an embroidered pillow and began to read.
"Because in this unenlightened land no man is allowed to have more than one wife at a time Oh, Tommy, what have you been doing?" Kingsmead, who had come in without knocking, sat down and stretched his thin legs over the arm of the chair. "Ratting." "Oh, you nasty child! What a beastly thing!" "Ratting, my dear mother, is a fine, manly, old-time sport.
"And all ours. Doctor Kingsmead, we ought to take possession of this place for our own. But I say, did you see anything wonderful?" "N-no. Plenty of beautifully coloured birds; lovely flowers in abundance. Beetles and butterflies as beautiful as I ever saw." "Any snakes?" "I saw none, and I should hardly think there would be any; but I saw two crocodiles." "Did you?" cried Carey.
Lady Kingsmead was a good nurse, greatly to her daughter's surprise, and all her affectations seemed to have been left in her dressing-room with her false hair. The three women took turns sitting up with the invalid, but he recognised none of them. It was a very long night, and only the greatest determination kept Brigit awake during her watches, for she was extremely tired after her journey.
"You'll have to look out, Tony," he went on, frowning as he caught the expression in Lady Kingsmead's eyes, "she is confoundly good-looking. Beauties' daughters ought always to be plain." Lady Kingsmead flushed angrily, and was about to speak, when her daughter interrupted in a perfunctory voice: "Oh, don't, Gerald, you know she loathes being teased.
Carey opened his eyes just at sunrise, feeling, as a healthy lad should, light-hearted and happy; for he was perfectly unconscious of all that had taken place overnight till he turned his head a little and saw Doctor Kingsmead with his arm resting against the side, gazing out of the open port. Then it all came to him, and he felt horribly selfish and miserable. "Oh, doctor!" he cried.
"That is exactly what she is bravo, Charley Masterson! A clean old peasant. Joyselle, too, is a peasant. They come from near Falaise, and as a girl Madame Joyselle wore a cap. Is there no tea going?" Lady Kingsmead, who hated rows unless she was one of the principals, rang the bell. "How was Pam?" she asked hastily. "As nice as ever. They both sent you their love, by the way.
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