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He puffed his cigar in silence for a moment. Langham's had gone out and he was nervously chewing the end of it. "What did I say?" he asked at length. "Oh, all sorts of damn nonsense. You're smart enough sober, but get you drunk and you ain't fit to be at large!" "What did I say?" repeated Langham. "Better let me forget that," rejoined Gilmore significantly.
She made a delicious picture as she stood framed in the darkness of the doorway; her long dress caught up round her in one hand, the other resting on the handle. A gust of some delicate perfume seemed to enter the room with her, and a thrill of pleasure passed through Langham's senses. 'Can I find anything for you? he said, springing up.
Gilmore, who had just taken up his position at Marshall Langham's elbow. The gambler frowned and the handy-man instantly shifted his gaze.
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 entrapped her, which annoyed Robert in much the same way as Langham's philosophical airs were wont to do.
Again, when Elsmere was an undergraduate Langham and Grey had been intimate. Now, Langham's tone
'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 They had withdrawn into the bow window out of earshot of the rest of the room.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 toward a group near the piano.
The door opened, and Moxlow came into the room. At sight of him, Langham's dull eyes grew brilliant. "I thought you would never get here!" he said. "This is too bad, Marsh!" said his law partner sympathizingly, as Evelyn yielded him her place and withdrew to the window again. "Where's Taylor?" asked Langham abruptly.
Trix hasn't time to 'take it' at all. She is absorbed all day in attending her father. The fit turns out not to be dangerous at present, but he lies in a sort of stupor, a lethargy from which nothing can rouse him. Of course our first step will be to return to New York immediately. Beggars and I take it that's about what we are at present have no business at Langham's."
But I have given up things of much more importance than a dance for the sake of appearances, and Hope herself will see to-morrow that I acted for the best." Clay said he trusted so, but doubted it, and by way of re-establishing himself in Miss Langham's good favor, asked her if she could give him the next dance. But Miss Langham was not to be propitiated.
"I was lookin' out into the alley through a crack in the small door where they put in the coal; right across the alley is the back of McBride's store and the sheds about his yard " the handy-man paused and mopped his face with his ragged cap. At the opposite end of the room Gilmore placed a hand on Langham's arm.
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