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This is the age of feminine advancement. Young women think nothing of twisting their mothers round their fingers, let alone their fathers; but the fashion in which that young woman walked off, on the Apostle's arm, and left her father standing there, was, in its way, a study. Lindon seemed scarcely able to realise that the pair of them had gone.
'I understand that it was an impertinence on my part to volunteer assistance which was unasked; you have made that sufficiently plain. 'I assure you 'Pray don't. Of course, if it had been Miss Lindon it would have been different; she would at least have received a civil answer. But we are not all Miss Lindon. I was aghast.
'You have chosen an appropriate moment, Miss Lindon, to make to me such a communication. She chose to disregard my irony. 'I am glad you think so, because now you will understand what a difficult position I am in. 'I offer you my hearty congratulations. 'And I thank you for them, Mr Atherton, in the spirit in which they are offered, because from you I know they mean so much.
The Honorable Eric Lindon, who was at this moment walking up and down with Lady Muriel, might have solved it at once, no doubt, by announcing his intention of returning on foot. Of this solution there did not seem to be the very smallest probability. The next best solution, it seemed to me, was that I should walk home: and this I at once proposed. "You're sure you don't mind?, said the Earl.
What Marjorie Lindon could see in such an opusculum surpassed my comprehension; especially when there was a man of my sort walking about, who adored the very ground she trod upon. All through the night, waking and sleeping, and in my dreams, I wondered what Marjorie could see in him!
At that moment I found the announcement a trifle perplexing, it delighted Lindon. He began to stutter and to stammer. 'T-the very thing! c-couldn't have been better! show her in here! H hide me somewhere, I don't care where, behind that screen!
'You gave Miss Lindon a wrong impression. 'I don't know. I was always giving her wrong impressions. Once she said that she knew I was not a marrying man, that I was the sort of chap who never would marry, because she saw it in my face. 'Under the circumstances, that was trying. 'Bitter hard. Percy sighed again. 'I shouldn't mind if I wasn't so gone.
He is not guileless, and he is not a peasant but I don't know that either point is of vital importance." It was, in fact, the Honourable Eric Lindon, who had apparently fulfilled his task of escorting Lady Muriel home, and was now strolling leisurely up and down the road outside the house, enjoying; a solitary cigar. "Might I trouble you, Sir, to tell us the nearest way to Outland!"
I am going abroad, to visit Joe Lindon, the independent candidate for sheriff, and you can step into the back office and take a reef in it." He did not see the look of fire in her eyes as he went out, because he was not looking at her eye.
"No, sir, I harn't seen it. Let's see, I don't think I've been here only when I locked up." "By some mischance I left my desk unlocked when I went out in a hurry yesterday. Lindon here has found one piece on the floor." "P'r'aps tothers is there, too," said Jem eagerly. "No; we have looked. Call your wife. Perhaps she may have found them when sweeping." "Not she, sir," said Jem.
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