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Sefton entered the room, where Walter had been the only gentleman, and took a chair beside Lufa. She rose, saying, "I beg your pardon, Mr. Colman, but would you mind stopping a minute while I get a little more red silk for my imperial dragon? Mr. Sefton has already taken the sting out of the snake!" "What snake?" asked Sefton. "The snake of terror," she answered.
"They will hardly be annihilated by it, Mr. Colman!" returned Lufa. "But, indeed, I did not know you were in the room; and perhaps you did not know that in our circle it is counted bad manners to listen!" "I was foolishly paralyzed for a moment," said Walter, "as well as unprepared for the part you would take." "I am very glad, Mr.
In the glamour of literary ambition, he took for granted that Lady Lufa allotted his world a higher orbit than that of her social life, and prized most the pleasures they had in common, which so few were capable of sharing.
It was very well to think of Lufa's behavior to Sefton, but what had Walter's been to Lufa? It may seem strange that the reflection had not come to him before; but in nothing are we slower than in discovering our own blame and the slower that we are so quick to perceive or imagine we perceive the blame of others.
The father might have discovered many handles by which to lay hold of his son; the son might have seen the lamp bright in his father's chamber which he was but trimming in his. AT length came the summons from Lady Lufa to hear her music to his verses. It was not much of a song, neither did he think it was. Mist and vapor and cloud Filled the earth and the air! My heart was wrapt in a shroud.
These changes angered many and there were frequent rebellions against the king, but he put them all down, and year after year came nearer the goal of his ambition. And his hair continued to grow uncut and uncombed, and got to be such a tangled mass that men called him Harold Lufa, or Frowsy-Head. There was one great and proud family, the Rafnistas, who were not easily to be won.
Sefton, moved perhaps by that unknown power of presence, operating in bodily proximity but savoring of the spiritual, looked suddenly round and saw him. He smiled and did not speak, but, stretching out a quiet hand, sought his. Walter grasped it as if it was come to lift him from some evil doom. Neither spoke, and Lufa did not know that hands had clasped in the swaying human flood.
"I've neither seen nor heard of him to this day!" He ceased with the cadence of an ended story. "Is that all?" "You spoke of an adventure of your own!" "I was flattering myself," said Lufa, "that in our house Mr. Colman was at last to hear a ghost story from the man's own lips!" "The sun is coming out!" said Sefton. "I will have a cigar at the stables."
I am not going to make a fool of myself on compulsion! I know what I can do, and what I can't do." "I wish I had the chance!" murmured Walter, as if to himself, but so that Lufa heard. "You can ride?" said Lufa, with pleased surprise. "Why not?" returned Walter. "Every Englishman should ride." "Yes; every Englishman should swim; but Englishmen are drowned every day!"
He found it rather difficult, though what Lufa might tell her mother he neither thought nor cared, if only he had his back to the house, and his soul out of it. It was now the one place on the earth which he would sink in the abyss of forgetfulness.
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