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Of course, that rendered them particularly anxious to lay hold of him. Joseph's lady friends might, roughly speaking, be divided into two groups: the unmarried, who wanted to marry him to themselves; and the married, who wanted to marry him to somebody else. It would be a social disaster, the latter had agreed among themselves, if Joseph Loveredge should never wed.
The Lady Alexandra's behaviour appeared to Mrs. Loveredge not altogether well-bred. An eccentric young noblewoman Mrs. Loveredge had always found her, but wished on this occasion that she had been a little less eccentric. Every few minutes the Lady Alexandra buried her face in her serviette, and shook and rocked, emitting stifled sounds, apparently those of acute physical pain. Mrs.
I met the Lady Mary at the O'Meyers' the other day, and she was good enough to accept my invitation. I forgot to tell you." Mr. Loveredge said he was delighted; after which, although as a rule a chatty man, he seemed to have nothing else to say. And a silence fell. Somerville the Briefless till then. That evening has always been reckoned the starting-point of his career.
Mrs. Loveredge, as a hostess, came to have only one failing a marked coldness of demeanour towards all people with titles, whenever introduced to her. People said of the new journal, Good Humour people of taste and judgment, that it was the brightest, the cleverest, the most literary penny weekly that ever had been offered to the public.
Not a feature altered, not a hair on his head changed, yet the whole face was different; the same body, the same clothes, but another man. We talked for half an hour; he remembered everything that Joey Loveredge had known. I couldn't understand it.
Meanwhile Joseph Loveredge went undisturbed upon his way. At eight o'clock in the morning Joseph's housekeeper entered the room with a cup of tea and a dry biscuit. At eight-fifteen Joseph Loveredge arose and performed complicated exercises on an indiarubber pulley, warranted, if persevered in, to bestow grace upon the figure and elasticity upon the limbs.
Loveredge?" asked the sympathetic Peter, "is she " "Between ourselves," said Joey, sinking his voice to a needless whisper, seeing he and Peter were the sole occupants of the smoking-room "I couldn't, of course, say it to a younger man but between ourselves, my wife is a charming woman. You don't know her." "Doesn't seem much chance of my ever doing so," laughed Peter.
One morning towards the end of the week, Joseph Loveredge, looking twenty years younger than when Peter had last seen him, dropped in at the editorial office of Good Humour and demanded of Peter Hope how he felt and what he thought of the present price of Emma Mines. Peter Hope's fear was that the gambling fever was spreading to all classes of society.
Then, as the clock struck, and he rose, saying he must be home at half- past five, the explanation suddenly occurred to me: Joey Loveredge was dead; this was a married man." "We don't want your feeble efforts at psychological romance," told him Somerville the Briefless. "We want to know what you talked about.
"Of course," said the Lady Mary; "how stupid of me! It was the day of my own wedding, too. You really must forgive me. We talked of quite a lot of things. I remember now." Mrs. Loveredge, who prided herself upon maintaining old-fashioned courtesies, proceeded to introduce the Lady Mary to her fellow-guests, a little surprised that her ladyship appeared to know so few of them.
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