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Over the satisfied lips of De Gollyer the same ironical smile returned. "I say, as a matter of fact I didn't suspect, you you cared so much." "I adored her!" With a quick movement, Lightbody turned. His eyes flashed. He no longer cared what he revealed. He began to speak incoherently, stifling a sob at every moment. "I adored her. It was wonderful. Nothing like it.
A minute passed while she stood, rapidly seizing every indication that might later assist her. Then she moved slightly and said in a voice of quiet sadness: "Jackie." "Great God!" Lightbody, overturning chair and table, sprang up recoiling as one recoils before an avenging specter. In his convulsive fingers were the time-tables, clinging like damp lily pads. "Jackie, I couldn't do it.
I'll tell you what I'll do. You're going to get right off. You're going to be looked after. I'll knock off myself. I'll take you." Lightbody gave him his hand with a dumb, grateful look that brought a quick lump to the throat of De Gollyer, who, in terror, purposely increasing the lightness of his manner, sprang up with exaggerated gaiety. "By Jove, fact is, I'm a bit dusty myself. Do me good.
Beaumont turned quick, and exclaimed, "My dear, what could Lightbody be saying to you when I came up? for I remember he stopped short, and you both looked so guilty." "Guilty! did I? Did he? Dearest Mrs. Beaumont, don't look at me so with your piercing eyes! Oh! I vow and protest I can't tell you; I won't tell you."
"My whole life wrecked," continued Lightbody, without hearing him, "nothing left not the slightest, meanest thing left!" "Dear boy, you must go away." "Only last night she was sitting here, and I there, reading a book." He stopped and put forth his hand. "This book!" "Jack, you must go away for a while." "What?" "Go away!" "Oh, yes, yes. I suppose so. I don't care."
Lightbody turned his head, and immediately advancing, with his accustomed mixture of effrontery and servility, said, that "he had executed Mrs. Beaumont's commands, and that he had returned in hopes of getting a moment to say a word to her when she was at leisure, about something he had just learned from Mr. Palmer's man Crichton, which it was of consequence she should know without delay."
"A woman who runs away gets no alimony," said De Gollyer loudly. "Not here, not in the effete East!" "I hadn't thought of that, either," said Lightbody, who, despite himself, could not repress a smile. De Gollyer, irritated perhaps that he should have been duped into sympathy, ran on with a little vindictiveness. "Of course that means nothing to you, dear boy. You were happy, ideally happy!
Lightbody, sitting down at the desk, wearily drew the gloves to him, gazing fixedly at the crushed perfumed fingers. "Why, Jim," he said finally, "I adore her so if she can be happier happier with another if that will make her happier than I can make her well, I'll step aside, I'll make no trouble just for her, just for what she's done for me." The last words were hardly heard.
Poor Lightbody Oh, you're looking at me! Poor Lightbody was talking to me of somebody, and he laid me a wager but I can't tell you that Ah, don't be angry with me, and I will tell, if you'll turn your head quite away! that I should be married to somebody before the end of this year. Oh, now, don't look at me, dearest, dearest Mrs. Beaumont."
Lightbody, "wha wad hae thought o' Caleb Balderstone playing an auld acquaintance sic a pliskie!" "Oh, weary on him!" said the spouse of Mr. Girder; "and what am I to say to the gudeman? He'll brain me, if there wasna anither woman in a' Wolf''s Hope."
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