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'On your side, or Mr Lessingham's? 'His side is my side, and my side is his side; you will be on our side? 'I am not sure that I altogether follow you. 'You are the first I have told. When papa hears it is possible that there will be trouble, as you know. He thinks so much of you and of your opinion; when that trouble comes I want you to be on our side, on my side.
Cecily, who stood by the window, glanced towards her several times, and in the end went to her own room. Mrs. Lessingham's letter was not yet finished when a servant announced Elgar's arrival. He was at once admitted. On seeing who was to receive him, he made an instant's pause before coming forward; there was merely a bow on both sides.
I believe that Mr Lessingham is aware of something of the kind. He seemed to come to a sudden resolution, dropping his voice to a whisper. 'The fact is, sir, that I fancy Mr Lessingham's a good deal upset. 'Upset? I stared at him. There was something in his manner I did not understand. 'What do you mean by upset? Has the scoundrel attempted violence? 'Who's there?
I was, of course, familiar with Mr Lessingham's appearance, but it was the first time I had had with him any personal communication. He held out his hand to me. 'You are Mr Champnell? 'I am. 'I believe that I have not had the honour of meeting you before, Mr Champnell, but with your father, the Earl of Glenlivet, I have the pleasure of some acquaintance. I bowed.
"But we won't go into Cornwall, I think." "No, not this year." They spent a month at Eastbourne. Some agreeable people whom they were accustomed to meet at Mrs. Lessingham's had a house there, and supplied them with society. Towards the end of the month, Reuben grew restless and uncertain of temper; he wandered on the downs by himself, and when at home kept silence.
The channels which your cruisers so carefully avoided were the only safe avenues. So you see why it is, Maderstrom, that I have no grudge against you." Lessingham's face for a moment was the face of a stricken man. There was a look of dull horror in his eyes. "Is this the truth?" he gasped. "It is the truth," Sir Henry assured him gravely. "Does this conclude the explanations?"
When a man makes a speech like Lessingham's any girl would go away with him, and be proud to. When you are endowed with such great powers as he is, and use them for such lofty purposes, she'll walk away with you, but, till then, never. He was at his old trick of polishing his eyeglass. 'It's bitter hard.
"She has scarcely spoken of you at all scarcely more than the few words that were inevitable." "In itself a condemnation." Cecily was mute. Before Elgar could say anything more, the door opened. With a sudden radiance on her features, the girl looked up to greet Mrs. Lessingham's entrance. "How long you have been, aunt!" "Yes; I am sorry. How do you do, Mr. Elgar? Tea, Cecily, lest I perish!"
One would think, from Sir Henry's expression, that he was finding food for much satisfaction in this recital of Lessingham's sudden disappearance. "He is a wonderful fellow, this Lessingham," he added thoughtfully. "He must have yes, by God, he must have In that storm, too!"
The young man was perpetually raving about some indescribable den of horror which was own brother to Lessingham's temple and about some female monster, whom he regarded with such fear and horror that every allusion he made to her was followed by a convulsive paroxysm which taxed all the ingenuity of his medical attendants to bring him out of.
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