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Therefore, after but a moment's hesitation, he went on, laid his hand upon George Lovegrove's shoulder, and called him affectionately by name. "Dominic!" the latter cried, and stood staring. "Well to be sure you did surprise me! To think of meeting you just by accident to-day, like this!" He grew furiously red, gladness and embarrassment struggling within him.
Lovegrove's books of picture postcards, the miscellaneous consequences of many charity bazaars, and kindred aesthetic treasures reposed, and deposited her work- bag in their company. Her movement revived the attention of the parrot, who had been nodding on its perch. "Poor old girlie, take a brandy and soda? Kiss and be friends. Good- night, all," it murmured hoarsely, half asleep.
He always felt jealous of Lovegrove's play. Lovegrove played an admirable game, always making the most of his cards. His partner played wretchedly, and though he had Longley and Lovegrove against him, he could not refrain from betting ten pounds on every rubber. He played till the club closed, he played till he had reduced his balance at the bank to nineteen pounds.
"Very likely still I should be just as well pleased not to continue their acquaintance. I don't like to hear things that are disrespectful. I should have ceased to call, but relatives of theirs are old friends of Mr. Lovegrove's mother's family." "Quite so, quite so," the other returned.
And if Dominic Iglesias is to have friends with whom we are unacquainted though I do not deny the thing hurt me a little at first I am glad they should be so handsome and fine. It seems to me fitting, and as if he was in his true sphere at last." A silence followed this profession of faith, during which Mrs. Lovegrove's face presented a singular study.
Lovegrove's drawing-room engrossed his attention the dirty-browns and tentative watery blues of it, the multiplicity of flimsy, worthless, little ornaments revealing a most lamentable absence of artistic perception. In that fine booming clerical voice he detected a kindred absence of delicate perception, a showiness born of very inadequate conception of relative values.
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