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'My dear Atherton, if my health is really failing me, I shall resign everything, everything! He repeated his own word with a little movement of his hands which was pathetic. 'Understand me, Lessingham. What else you do is no affair of mine. I am concerned only with Miss Lindon.
There is that in your frankness, although you may be unconscious of it, which some men might not unreasonably resent. 'Do you resent it? 'That depends. If you are arrogating to yourself the right to place yourself between Miss Lindon and me, I do resent it, strongly. 'Answer my question! 'I answer no question which is addressed to me in such a tone. He was as calm as you please.
Y-you use your influence with her; g-give her a good talking to; t-tell her what I've told you; and at at the critical moment I'll come in, and then then if we can't manage her between us, it'll be a wonder. The proposition staggered me. 'But, my dear Mr Lindon, I fear that I cannot He cut me short. 'Here she comes!
Oddity as he was, in outward appearance, the Professor was, in that essential nature which no outward disguise could conceal, a thorough gentleman. And, as such, Eric Lindon accepted him instantly. He took the cigar from his mouth, and delicately shook off the ash, while he considered. "The name sounds strange to me," he said. "I doubt if I can help you?
What was the exact purport of the creature's presence in England was another question, Possibly part of the intention was the destruction of Paul Lessingham, body, soul and spirit; possibly another part was the procuration of fresh victims for that long-drawn-out holocaust. That this latter object explained the disappearance of Miss Lindon I felt persuaded.
'Your friend, Mr Lessingham. 'Excuse me, Miss Lindon, but I am by no means sure that anyone is entitled to call Mr Lessingham a friend of mine. 'What! Not when I am going to be his wife? That took me aback. I had had my suspicions that Paul Lessingham was more with Marjorie than he had any right to be, but I had never supposed that she could see anything desirable in a stick of a man like that.
'My dear Lindon, it seems to me that your method of diverting the young lady from the path which she has set herself to tread is calculated to send her furiously along it. 'C-confound the women! c-confound the women! I don't mind telling you, in c-confidence, that at at times, her mother was the devil, and I'll be I'll be hanged if her daughter isn't worse.
I felt that, if I was not careful, I should be done for, and, probably, in his present mood, Marjorie too. 'My dear Lindon, I cannot tell you how grateful I am to you for your suggestion, but I can only repeat that unfortunately, anything of the kind is out of the question. 'I don't see why. 'Perhaps not. 'You you're a pretty lot, upon my word! 'I'm afraid we are.
And for her for Marjorie Lindon! for his dear love! it shall come to pass that she shall wish that she was never born, nor he! and the gods of the shadows shall smell the sweet incense of her suffering! It shall be! it shall be! It is I that say it, even I! In the madness of his rhapsodical frenzy I believe that he had actually forgotten I was there.
"Lookye here, Mike Bannock, I never did knock a man down with this here wooden bar, but if you gets stirring Mas' Don again, has it you do, right across the back. Spang!" "Be quiet, Jem, and put the bar down," said Lindon Lavington, a dark, well set-up lad of seventeen, as he sat upon the head of a sugar-hogshead with his arms folded, slowly swinging his legs.
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