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He left the room without even a word or a salute to Philippa. Lessingham looked after him for a moment, thoughtfully. Then he shrugged his shoulders. "I am quite sure that I do not like Captain Griffiths," he declared. "There is no breeding about the fellow." Philippa, even for some moments after the departure of Captain Griffiths and his myrmidons, remained in a sort of nerveless trance.
Not to speak of a hundred and one other considerations, Lessingham on one side of the House, and her father on the other; and old Lindon girding at him anywhere and everywhere with his high-dried Tory notions of his family importance, to say nothing of his fortune. I don't know if I looked what I felt, if I did, I looked uncommonly blank.
Rather a misfortune, but not an uncommon one with artists." The conversation turned on this subject for a few minutes, Madeline taking part in it in a way that showed her resolve to act as she had recommended in her note. Then Mrs. Lessingham rose and left the two together.
Lessingham, and as much more graceful in her self-control as the advantages of nature made inevitable. Miriam looked very cold, very severe, very English, by the side of this brilliant girl. The thinness and pallor of her features became more noticeable; the provincial faults of her dress were painfully obvious.
If they have gone by train have a special in readiness. In a minute we were again in the cab. I endeavoured to persuade Lessingham and Atherton to allow me to conduct the pursuit alone, in vain. I had no fear of Atherton's succumbing, but I was afraid for Lessingham.
Silvester returned home last night. There was a commercial traveller came in the first train this morning, but he went on during the afternoon." "Hm! What about a Mr. Lessingham a Mr. Hamar Lessingham?" "I haven't heard of him, sir." "Have you had the registration papers down from the hotel yet?" "Not this evening, sir. I met the Midland and Great Northern train in myself.
This time he was successful. A servant conducted him by many stairs and passages to Mrs. Lessingham's sitting-room. He entered, and found himself alone with Cecily. "Mrs. Lessingham will certainly be back very soon," she said, in shaking hands with him. "They told me you had called before, and I thought you would like better to wait a few minutes than to be disappointed again."
Lessingham bowed courteously. "I do not remember alluding to my soldiering at all," he said coolly, "but as a matter of fact I am in the Guards." Mrs. Johnson accepted Philippa's hand and the inevitable. Her good-by to Lessingham was most affable. She walked up the road with the vicar.
Let me consider, what has Lessingham done which could offend the religious or patriotic susceptibilities of the most fanatical of Orientals? Politically, I can recall nothing. Foreign affairs, as a rule, he has carefully eschewed. If he has offended and if he hasn't the seeming was uncommonly good! the cause will have to be sought upon some other track. But, then, what track?
As I'm a living man I believe he, she, or it has got her! His words were incomprehensible enough to stand in copious need of explanation, as Mr Lessingham plainly thought. 'What is it that you mean, sir? 'What I say, I believe that that Oriental friend of yours has got her in her clutches, if it is a "her;" goodness alone knows what the infernal conjurer's real sex may be. 'Atherton!
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