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Don't you see? 'And the girls were half-sisters and ? Logotheti stopped and stared. 'Yes. Margaret nodded slowly again and poked the fire. 'Good heavens! The Greek knew something of the world's wickedness, but his jaw dropped. 'Oedipus! he ejaculated. 'It cannot be true, Margaret said, quite in earnest. 'I detest him, but I cannot believe that of him.
Logotheti quietly pulled his cuff over his hand, produced a pencil instead of his fountain pen, and proceeded to divide five hundred thousand by four hundred and eighty-four to three places of decimals. 'Fifteen and fivepence halfpenny, he said, when he had turned the fraction into shillings and pence, 'and the pounds are just what I said.
I've always despised women who cannot make up their minds whether they care for a man or not. But you have found out my secret; I am two people in one, and there are days when each makes the other dreadfully uncomfortable! You understand. 'And it's the Cordova that neither likes me nor hates me just at this moment, suggested Logotheti.
'I've come here to make you take back the money, Margaret said. 'I won't keep it another day. 'Have you come all the way from Versailles again to say that? asked Logotheti, laughing. Again, as she sat on the arm of the big chair, she tapped the dark blue tiles with the toe of her shoe.
You are in league, damn you! Damn you, you are a conspiracy! His face was as white as paper, his queer eyes blazed through his glasses, and his features were disfigured with rage. He showed his teeth and hissed like a wildcat; his nervous fingers fastened themselves upon Logotheti's arm. But Logotheti gazed at him with a look of amusement in his quiet eyes, and laughed softly.
I shall not keep you long. 'Then run us up to the house in your new go-cart. Mr. Van Torp lifted little Ida into the motor as if she had been a rather fragile china doll instead of a girl nine years old and quite able to get up alone, and before she could sit down he was beside her. Logotheti jumped up beside the chauffeur and the machine ran up the drive at breakneck speed.
'Very well indeed, he answered after an instant. 'He is my uncle. 'Why, now, that's quite interesting! observed Mr. Van Torp, rising deliberately and thrusting his hands into his pockets. Logotheti, who knew nothing about the details of Lady Maud's pending divorce, could not imagine what the American was driving at, and waited for more. Mr.
He wondered what it was that attracted such a woman as Margaret Donne to such a man, and with a humility which his friends and enemies would have been far from suspecting in him he honestly tried to compare himself with Logotheti, and to define the points in which the latter had the advantage of him. Very naturally, he failed to discover them.
'You have no idea what those paintings are, he continued, talking to the table. 'I have been there several weeks and I'm going back next month. Logotheti is going to take a party of us in his big yacht. 'Who is Logotheti? inquired Margaret, with great calm. 'A financier, put in Lushington. 'A millionaire, said the artist. 'I have painted his portrait.
'You shall keep the yacht as a memento of the cruise. She's not a bad vessel. 'What should I do with a steam yacht? 'Oh, you would have to take the owner with her, Logotheti answered airily. 'Eh? Margaret stared at him in amazement. 'Yes. Don't be surprised. I'm quite in earnest. I never lose time, you know. 'I should think not! Do you know that this is only our second meeting?
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