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She glared at him, and it was Lashmar's turn to betray indecision. "You are at my mercy," Constance exclaimed, "and you will do as I bid you." Lashmar yielded to exasperation. "I have enough of this," he cried angrily. "Go and do as you please! Take your silly feminine revenge, and much good may it do you! I have no more time to waste." He caught up his hat, and left the room.
Come and meet him here at five o'clock on Sunday; have a talk and then send him your invitation. He, too, is a thorough idealist; you're sure to like him." Before Lashmar left the house, all the details of this little dinner were neatly settled, the only point necessarily left uncertain being whether Lord Dymchurch could be counted upon. Of course Mrs.
One would have said that it amused her to notice the slight coldness 'which Lashmar put into his manner towards her. She had never seemed in better spirits. In the afternoon Dyce was summoned to a private interview with Lady Ogram. It took place in an upstairs room he had not yet entered. "Well, have you enjoyed your stay with me?
"Nothing of the kind," interposed Lashmar. "It was very clever. You couldn't be vulgar if you tried." "Have you the letter still?" "Of course I have." "Then do me the kindness to destroy it will you?" "If you wish." "I do, seriously. Burn the thing, as soon as you get home." "Very well." They avoided each-other's look, and there was a rather long pause.
He had talked of running up to London occasionally, of having these fellows down for the week-end; he had complained that he was growing rusty and losing touch with the world. After the restlessness of London, Eric could not at once accommodate himself to the leisurely contentment and placidity of Lashmar. "Wake up, Geoff!" he cried.
Once or twice her look wandered to a certain part of the wall where hung a framed photograph a portrait of Dyce Lashmar at the age of one and twenty; she regarded it for an instant with cold fixity, as though it interested her not at all. Just as she was on the point of rising, there came a sound of wheels on the vicarage drive. "Who's that, I wonder?" said Mrs. Lashmar. "Why surely it isn't ?"
"If I don't, I shall deserve to fall into worse difficulties than ever," cried Lashmar. "As, for instance, to find yourself under the necessity of making your mock contract a real one which would be sufficiently tragic." Constance spoke with a laugh, and thereupon, before Dyce could make any rejoinder, walked from the room. The philosopher stood embarrassed.
As Lashmar came forward, she finished what she was saying, and turned her eyes upon him with expectant interest; a smile at the corner of her lips had a certain mischievousness, quite good-humoured but a little perturbing to one who encountered it, together with the direct dark gaze, for the first time. Introduction having been performed with Lady Ogram's wonted carelessness, Mrs.
"I can't help it too late I can't, can't help it oh! oh!" Unobserved, the domestic drew back, and went to gossip with her fellow-servant of this strange incident. The hours drove on. Lashmar found himself at the church, accompanied by his father, his mother, his old friend the Home Office clerk. They waited the bride's coming; she was five minutes late, ten minutes late; but came at last.
Six years ago, in the days of late summer, when Dyce Lashmar was spending his vacation at the vicarage, and Connie Bride was making ready to go out into the world, they had been wont to see a good deal of each other, and to exhaust the topics of the time in long conversations, tending ever to a closer intimacy of thought and sentiment. The companionship was not very favourably regarded by Mr.
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