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When he understood Lord Chandos did not take the Mint, he went to the Duke and offered to remain, thinking his going out, with Lord Chandos's declining to come in, might, taken together, embarrass the Government. However, the arrangement was already made. Read Lushington's minute on the Neilgherry hills. He wants to make an English colony there.
When Margaret was alone she realised that she was more disturbed by Lushington's unexpected appearance at Logotheti's door than she had thought it possible to be. At the time, she had been surprised to see him and a little hurt by his manner, but she had attributed the latter to his natural shyness.
Therefore, when the clouds that curled up from Lushington's pipe failed to shape themselves into a vision both wise and prophetic, and left absolutely no new idea behind when they vanished, he came to the conclusion that his first scheme was a very good one after all, and that he had better abide by the square-toed, spring-side boots and the rest of his admirable disguise, until something happened.
'Is there any one there? asked Lushington, evidently not pleased. The servant shrugged his shoulders in a deprecatory way, and his smile became rather compassionate. 'One young person to breakfast, he said, 'a musician'. 'Oh, very well. Lushington's brow cleared. The servant left him and went in again. A screen was so placed as to mask the interior of the dining-room when the door was open.
While preparing the volumes of 1842 at Boxley, Tennyson's life was divided between London and the society of his brother-in-law, Mr Edmund Lushington, the great Greek scholar and Professor of Greek at Glasgow University. There was in Mr Lushington's personal aspect, and noble simplicity of manner and character, something that strongly resembled Tennyson himself.
Thereupon, with a quick movement of his arm and hand, he sent Mr. Lushington's latest novel flying over the lee rail, fully thirty feet away, and it dropped out of sight into the grey waves. He had been a good baseball pitcher in his youth. Margaret bit her lip and her eyes flashed. 'You are quite the most disgustingly brutal person I ever met, she said, no longer able to keep down her anger.
This particular book had a particularly priggish expression, like Lushington's yellow shoes, which were too good and too new, and which he was examining with apparent earnestness. To tell the truth he did not see them, for he was wondering whether the blush of annoyance he felt was unusually visible. The result of thinking about it was that it deepened to scarlet at once.
She had Lushington's book on her knee, for she had found it less interesting than she had expected, and was rather ashamed of not having finished it before meeting him, since it had been given to her. She thought he might come down as far as Rugby to meet her, and she was quite willing that he should find her with it in her hand.
'If that is your view of it, you had better keep out of my way in future. He laid his hand on the car to get in as he spoke. Lushington's face hardened. 'I shall not take any pains to do that, he answered. 'On the contrary, if you go on doing what you have been doing of late, you'll find me very much in your way. Logotheti turned upon him savagely.
Quick to see the advantage of such a sudden escape, Margaret was actually getting into the carriage, when Mrs. Rushmore, who was kindness itself, remembered the two men and turned to Logotheti. 'I will leave you my groom to help, she said, in her stiff French. Then her eyes fell on Lushington's blood-stained face, and in the same instant it flashed upon her that the other man was Logotheti.
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