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Larpent. It was the most luxurious meal that Norman had ever seen, the plate, the porcelain, and all the appointments of the table so elegant, and the viands, all partaking of the Christmas character, and of a recherche delicate description quite new to him. He had to serve as his father's right hand, and was so anxious to put everything as Dr.
Try it yourself, and see how you like it!" He walked straight down the long room with the words, passing both Larpent and Bunny on his way, pausing by neither. "I like to hear you two discussing my case," he jested. "You, Bunny, who have never had the great disease, and Larpent who has never got over it!"
"And you'll never go again," commented Bunny, entering at the moment, "Maud, do you know I took Miss Larpent " he turned deliberately to Toby who snapped her fingers in airy acknowledgment "to see the races instead of coming straight back according to the boss's instructions." "Oh! So that's where you've been!" said Maud. "Exactly so." Bunny pulled up a chair and disposed his long legs astride it.
How lovely she was!" he said, in a strangled voice. Saltash got up in his sudden, elastic fashion. "Look here! You want a drink. Sit down while I get you one!" He was gone with the words, not waiting for the half-uttered remonstrance that the other man sent after him. Larpent stood staring heavily before him for a space, then turned with a mechanical movement and dropped into a chair.
Even at a distance that odd charm of hers lured him strongly, and he knew instinctively that if once she were launched in society his chances of victory would be very greatly reduced. He wished he could have seen more of Captain Larpent and possibly have enlisted his sympathy, but he had left the Castle with Saltash, and even Toby herself professed ignorance of his whereabouts.
"I shall go to sea to-morrow," said Saltash, with sudden decision. "I'm tired of this place, Larpent, fed up on repletion." "Then by all means let us go, my lord!" said Larpent, with the faint glimmer of a smile behind his beard, which was the only expression of humour he ever permitted himself. "Believe you're fed up too," said Saltash, flashing a critical look upon him.
Ethel could not think how the Wilmots could have found it in their heart to regret the liberality of this sweet damsel, on whom she began to look with Norman's enthusiastic admiration. There was time for a walk round the grounds, Meta doing the honours to Flora, and Ethel walking with Mrs. Larpent.
Even old Larpent felt the charm Larpent who had fallen in love twenty years ago for the first and last time! An irrepressible chuckle escaped him. Funny old Larpent! The wine of the gods had evidently been too strong a brew for him. It was obvious that he had no desire to repeat the dose. At his last halting-place he stood longer to drink in the beauty of the evening before entering the hotel.
"Do you know, Miss Melrose, it's rather curious, but you remind me of Spentoli too in some ways? I don't know if you and Miss Larpent possess the same characteristics, but I imagine you might develop them, given the same conditions." Sheila stiffened at the words. "I am sure you are quite wrong," she said coldly. "Captain Larpent's daughter is quite obviously a child of impulse. I am not."
He dropped into a chair with the air of a man who has limitless leisure at his disposal, but his tone was casual. He did not ask for confidence. Larpent stood still gazing before him through the smoke with keen, unwavering eyes. "Only one reason," he said again, and still he seemed to speak as one who communes with his inner soul. "She was dying and she wanted me."
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