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No I'll not harm her, I'll not hurt a hair of her head but when I meet him " "By the way, whom do you suspect?" said De Gollyer, who had long withheld the question. "Whom? Whom do I suspect?" exclaimed Lightbody, astounded. "I don't know." "Impossible!" "How do I know? I never doubted her a minute." "Yes, yes still?" "Whom do I suspect? I don't know." He stopped and considered.
"Who? Where?" With a sudden movement, De Gollyer caught his friend by the shoulder and faced him about as a naughty child, exclaiming: "Here, I say, old chap, brace up! Throw back your shoulders take a long breath!" With a violent wrench, Lightbody twisted himself free, while one hand flung appealingly back, begged for time to master the emotion which burst forth in the cry: "Gone forever!"
"My dear Jim," said Lightbody, feeling that generosity should be his part, "a woman, a modern woman, a New York woman, you just said it takes takes " "Twelve thousand thirteen thousand?" "Oh, come! Nonsense," said Lightbody, growing quite angry. "Besides, I don't " "Yes, yes, I know," said De Gollyer, interrupting him, now with fresh confidence.
Then, touched by the fervor of his friend's admiration, Lightbody moved wearily away, saying dully, all in a breath: "Like a thunderclap, Jim." "I know, dear old boy," said De Gollyer, feeling sharply vulnerable in the eyes and throat. "It's terrible it's awful. All in a second! Everything turned upside down, everything smashed!" "You must go away," said De Gollyer anxiously.
He made one or two false starts, buttoning his trim cutaway, and then said in a purposely higher key: "My dear old chap, we must consider we really must consider what is to be done." "There is only one thing to be done," cried Lightbody in a voice of thunder. "Permit me!" "Kill them!" "One moment!"
Lightbody, all eagerness, drove him down the hall, crying: "Round 'em up round them all up! I'll show them if I've come back!" When he had returned, waltzing on his toes to the middle of the room, he stopped and flung out his arms in a free gesture, inhaling a delicious breath.
When De Gollyer had seen the eagerness in his friend's eyes, the imps returned, ironically tumbling back. He slapped him on the shoulder as Mephistopheles might gleefully claim his own, crying, "Immense!" "You know, Jim," said Lightbody, straightening up, nervously alert, speaking in quick, eager accents, "it's what I've dreamed of a chance at one of the big beggars.
Then he halted with an exclamation, and hastily turned the page for the signature. "Read!" said Lightbody in a stifled voice. "I say, this is serious, devilishly serious," said De Gollyer, now thoroughly amazed. Immediately he began to read, unconsciously emphasizing the emphatic words a little trick of his enunciation.
"Indeed," said Captain Lightbody, "I, who am in Sir John's confidence, can vouch for that; for I have reason to believe, that that the connexion was the charm, and that the daughter would not have been thought of. Stop, I was charged not to say this. But when Mrs. Beaumont, to return to my point "
These arrangements imply that Captain Lightbody thought himself in Mrs. Beaumont's confidence: and so he was to a certain degree, just enough to flatter him into doing her high or low behests. Whenever she had a report to circulate, or to contradict, Captain Lightbody was put in play; and no man could be better calculated for this purpose, both from his love of talking, and of locomotion.
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