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However, a day or two after the conversation we have described, Robert, going to Langham's rooms late in the afternoon to return a book which had been lent to him, perceived two figures standing talking on the hearth-rug and by the western light beating in recognized the thickset frame and broad brow of Mr. Grey. 'Come in, Elsmere, said Langham, as he stood hesitating on the threshold.
Catherine knelt beside her in helpless pain and perplexity, her cheek resting against her sister's shoulder as a mute sign of sympathy. What could be the matter? Presently her gaze travelled from Rose to the letter on the floor. It lay with the address uppermost, and she at once recognized Langham's handwriting.
"Oh, dear, no, doctor!" rippled out Miss Langham's voice, in willing accompaniment of the joke; "I'm sure you are perfectly charming!" "There 's a great deal o' passin' there, ain't there?" said Dr. Spearmint in his soft voice, turning to her. "Oh, my! oh, how funny! oh dear, yes, doctor; you've no idea!" "Some there 's worth "
'It will seem to you now, Elsmere, mere Midsummer madness. May it always seem so to you. Forgive me. The pressure of solitude sometimes is too great. Elsmere looked up with one of his flashing, affectionate smiles, and took the book from Langham's hand. He found on the open page a marked passage: 'Oh swiftly passing seasons of life!
But, as always happens, neither her remonstrance, nor Mr. Grey's common sense, nor Langham's fidgety protests had any effect on the young enthusiast to whom self-slaughter came so easy. During the latter half of his third year of teaching he was continually being sent away by the doctors, and coming back only to break down again.
'I trust you will not ask him again, he said, with the same decision. 'And if I might say so there are one or two people still here whom I should like to see you exclude at the same time. They had withdrawn into the bow window out of earshot of the rest of the room. Langham's look turned significantly towards a group near the piano.
A glance passed between the two men. In Langham's there was a hardly sane antagonism and resentment, in Flaxman's an excited intelligence. 'Now then, said Flaxman coolly, 'fix your mind steadily on what Miss Leyburn is to do you must take her hand but except in thought, you must carefully follow and not lead her. Shall I call her? 'Langham abruptly assented.
"I suppose the finding of the coroner's jury doesn't amount to much," he presently said but without looking in Langham's direction. The lawyer did not answer him. He crossed to his desk which filled the space between the two windows overlooking the Square. "You're damn social!" snarled Gilmore over his shoulder. "I told you I was busy," said Langham, and he began to finger the papers on his desk.
This, I take it, is right shabby in him. But father is greatly changed. Between you and me, he was awfully afraid of mother. Poor mother, she meant well, and she was fond of me. "By the way, Flossie is in London, with her grandmother, stopping at Langham's, and Jack is there, too, and has asked the old lady to spend some weeks at Trevellian Castle.
Then all the pride in her rushed to the rescue and held that swooning dismay at the heart of her in check. And forthwith she capped Langham's minute account of the scale-method of a famous Berlin pianist by some witty stories of the latest London prodigy, a child-violinist, incredibly gifted, dirty, and greedy, whom she had made friends with in town.
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