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He'd riddle you both with bullets, and perhaps quite kill Doctor Kingsmead." "Well, sir, he's riddling of me now, sir; I dunno what to say; on'y it don't seem nat'ral to stand still and be blown up in a splosion, when you might get away. Ha! I have it, sir. S'pose I get the boat round under the cabin window, and you and Jackum shove the doctor out and lower him down. What d'yer say to that?"
"A great man, my dear," she told Lady Kingsmead, "one of the finest artistes I ever heard. I remember once in Petersburg, heaven only knows how many centuries ago, hearing him play before the Czar. He was extraordinarily handsome then, a tall young fellow he can't be much over forty now very broad and strong-looking, with beautiful wavy brown hair and gorgeous black eyes.
Doctor Kingsmead was standing with the veins in his forehead swollen, his teeth set, and his hands clenched. "The dog the brutal ruffian!" he said, as if talking to himself. "So helpless. Quite at his mercy. Seemed like a coward and a cur." "No, you didn't," said Carey, shortly. "We were taken by surprise, and they're seven to one, and all armed." The doctor turned to him sharply.
Green is disgusted, and from what I can gather from his cheery reports, everyone is going to be ruined by agricultural depression. The Mother of Hundreds has nine new pups rather good ones." This was at the end of April, and Lord Kingsmead was coiled in a big chair in his sister's room in Pont Street. Mr. Babington, his tutor, had just gone for a walk, poor man.
And Brigit ran up the shallow, red-carpeted steps. But who was this old woman wrapped in a white shawl. "Brigit " It was Lady Kingsmead, and Brigit, looking at her mother, almost fainted for the first time in her life. "How is he?" she gasped, leaning against the wall and wondering why it was so unsteady. "He his throat is better, but he is very weak and delirious.
Tommy turned to the kitten and talked artless nonsense to it to fill up the pause that followed, and Lady Kingsmead powdered her nose with a bit of chamois skin that lived in a silver box full of Fuller's earth under the chaise-longue pillows. "Glad Brigit's coming?" asked Tommy, turning with appalling suddenness to Carron, whose hatred for him increased tenfold as he tried to answer carelessly.
"I hadn't been in his room for years," sobbed Lady Kingsmead, forgetting her complexion. "Did you see the pastel of me on the wall between the windows? And I gave him the clock, too, for his thirty-fifth birthday. Oh, Brigit! He loved me insanely, poor Gerald, perfectly madly, and so did I." She broke off, to her daughter's relief, and sobbed again. Brigit's flat was warm and smelt unaired.
Brigit's one excuse was her mistaken assumption that her mother had believed Carron's story, and when Lady Kingsmead had shrieked out everything else that she thought might hurt her daughter, she added, "I believed in you, you little brute, though he said he saw you there. I might have known he wouldn't have dared to make up such a tale." Brigit, who had stood quite still, now spoke.
"Don't laugh, Brigit," he broke in with a quaint wave of his hand. "What I mean to say is simply this. I am, although so young, and not very big the Head of the Family." This magnificent declaration was so unlike his usual style of conversation that his sister with difficulty refrained from laughing. "Well, Tommy yes, there would be no use in my denying that you, not I, are the Earl of Kingsmead.
And my room was under the nursery. I do hate children." Carron caught his breath. She was actually talking civilly to him. And, then, remembering his request to her mother, he, for a second, hated Lady Kingsmead with a bitter and senseless hatred. Was Brigit, after all, only talking to him as a favour to her mother? But a second's reflection showed him the folly of this idea.
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