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They looked at him the one amazed, the other grimly observant and caught a slight significant motion of the head towards Langham's distant figure. Langham came up and made his farewells. As he turned his back, Lady Helen's large astonished eyes followed him to the door. 'Oh, Hugh! was all she could say as they came back to her brother.
However, the fates for the moment seemed to have borrowed a leaf from Langham's book, and did not apparently know their own minds. It says volumes for Hugh Flaxman's general capacities as a human being that at this period he should have had any attention to give to a friend, his position as a lover was so dubious and difficult.
Then it was all over; they were gone; the wheels that bore them away crashed over the gravel: Edith Darrell felt as though they were crashing over her heart. That night the Stuarts were established in elegant apartments at Langham's Hotel. But alas for the frailty of human hopes! "The splendid time" Trixy so confidently looked forward to never came.
Presently he said: "I've all along had my own theory about old man McBride's murder, and now I'm going to see what you think of it, Marsh." An icy hand seemed to be clutching Langham's heart. Gilmore's cruel smiling eyes noted his suffering. He laughed. "Of course, I don't think North killed McBride, not for one minute I don't; in fact, it's a dead moral certainty he didn't!"
Her glance fell upon Langham's shoulder, and rested there for so long that Hope followed the direction of her eyes. She leaped to her feet with a cry of fear and reproach, and ran toward her brother. "Ted!" she cried, "you are hurt! you are wounded, and you never told me! What is it? Is it very bad?" Clay crossed the floor in a stride, his face full of concern.
The rush of the noisy waters sounded with fearful distinctness in his ears. "Here, damn you, let go!" panted Montgomery. He felt Langham's hot breath on his cheek, he read murder by the wolfish light in his eyes. He wrenched himself free of the other's desperate clutch, but as he did so his foot caught against one of the rails and he slipped and fell to his knees.
Miss Langham looked down impatiently into the valley below, and found that it seemed more hot and noisy, and more grimy than before. Clay believed that Alice Langham's visit to the mines had opened his eyes fully to vast differences between them. He laughed and railed at himself for having dared to imagine that he was in a position to care for her.
Your way, being a modern, is to bustle and try experiments. Her eyes, half closed but none the less provocative, ran over Elsmere's keen face and pliant frame. An atmosphere of intellectual and social assumption enwrapped her, which annoyed Robert in much the same way as Langham's philosophical airs were wont to do.
Outside an occasional cab or cart would rattle over the stones of the street, an occasional voice or step would penetrate the thin walls of the house, bringing a shock of sound into that silent upper room. Nothing caught Langham's ear. He was absorbed in the dialogue which was to decide his life.
The guns at his own side sounded close at Langham's ear, and deafened him, and those of the enemy exploded so near to his face that he was kept continually winking and dodging, as though he were being taken by a flashlight photograph.
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