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The fact is, I'm hardly in a mood for that just now, I've been illustrating it too much already. 'What do you mean? 'Well, for one thing it's been murdering Lessingham's cat. 'Mr Lessingham's cat? 'Then it almost murdered Percy Woodville. 'Mr Atherton! I wish you wouldn't talk like that. 'It's a fact.
I went to Lessingham's front door and knocked, I knocked once, I knocked twice, I knocked thrice, and the third time, I give you my word, I made the echoes ring, but still there was not a soul that answered.
They were interrupted by the entrance of an English maidservant, who asked whether Miss Doran would have tea brought at once, or wait till Mrs. Lessingham's return. "You see how English we are," said Cecily to her visitor. "I think we'll have it now; Mrs. Lessingham may be hero any moment." It was growing dusk.
The speaker's words showed such knowledge, charity, and sympathy that they went straight to my heart. After that I read everything of Paul Lessingham's which I came across. And the more I read the more I was impressed. But it was some time before we met. Considering what papa's opinions were, it was not likely that he would go out of his way to facilitate a meeting.
"Captain Griffiths to see your ladyship." Philippa's fingers rested for a moment upon the keyboard of the piano before which she was seated, awaiting Lessingham's arrival. Then she glanced at the clock. It was ten minutes to eight. "You can show him in, Mills, if he wishes to see me." Captain Griffiths was ushered into the room awkward, unwieldly, nervous as usual.
What he meant by his wild words about my going through Paul Lessingham's window like a thief, I still had not the faintest notion. They sounded like the ravings of a madman. As I continued silent, and he yet stared, there came into his tone another note, a note of tenderness, a note of which I had not deemed him capable. 'He is good to look at, Paul Lessingham, is he not good to look at?
In such a matter one hardly expects a man of Paul Lessingham's stamp to talk of 'instinct. Atherton stared too. Then, on a sudden, he burst out, 'By the Lord, I believe the Apostle's right, the whole place reeks to me of hankey-pankey, it did as soon as I put my nose inside.
Sometimes he sat on my knees, sometimes on Lessingham's, and frequently, when he unexpectedly stood up, and all but precipitated himself on to the horse's back, on nobody's.
If I am wrong, and if Lessingham's wrong, how do you explain his extraordinary insistance on taking it inside the cab with him, which the bobby describes? If there wasn't something horrible, awful in that bundle of his, of which he feared the discovery, why was he so reluctant to have it placed upon the roof?
Lessingham's utterances of the other day, that with difficulty she kept her countenance; while Mrs. Lessingham herself, impelled to make the admission without delay, that she might exhibit a philosophic acceptance of fact, had much ado to hide her chagrin beneath the show of half-cynical frankness that became a woman of the world.
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