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Updated: June 6, 2025
Naturally Frank was never very far away from Jack's thoughts just now ever since, indeed, he had heard the news in a very discreet letter from the Reverend James Launton a week or two ago. He had written a frantic letter to Frank himself then, but it had been returned, marked: "Unknown at this address."
For cheerfuller sights we might observe Launton Oldaker in a musty curio-shop, delighted over a pair of silver candlesticks with square bases and fluted columns, fabricated in the reign of that fortuitous monarch, Charles the Second; or we might glance in upon the Higbees in their section of a French chateau, reproduced up on the stately Riverside Drive, where they complete the details of a dinner to be given on the morrow.
He had cut off the top of an egg which was now rapidly cooling, and a milky surface resembling thin ice was forming on the contents of his coffee-cup. And meanwhile he read. The column he was reading described the wedding of his uncle with Miss Jenny Launton, and journalese surpassed itself.
"Isn't it a huge bear-garden, though?" asks Launton Oldaker of the estimable Doctor von Herzlich, after the two had observed the scene in silence for a time. The wise German dropped an olive into his Rhine wine, and gazed reflectively about the room. Men and women sat at tables drinking. Beyond the tables at the farther side of the room, other men were playing billiards.
Then he drew out of his breast-pocket a letter in an envelope, and tossed it gently over to Jack. "I'm telling her in that," he said. "I'm going to post it to-night, after I've seen the Dean." Jack glanced down at it. "MISS LAUNTON, "The Rectory, "Merefield, Yorks." ran the inscription. He turned it over; it was fastened and sealed.
There's more fire in him now than in my father or Launton Oldaker, and I dare say he's a score of years older than either of them. I don't think you quite appreciate what a great old fellow he is." "I admire Uncle Peter much more, I'm sure, than he admires me. He's afraid I'm not strong enough to admire that Eastern climate of yours social and moral."
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