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'Everybody does I have told it to, and that's everybody I know. Satire! Lord help us! and he shook with laughter and clapped Mallinson in the small of the back. Mallinson felt the fool that he was intended to look, with the result that his dormant resentment against Drake sprang again into activity.
However, Drake closed my mouth with "He's a hard worker, though." 'I like the man for that! cried Mrs. Willoughby, and checked herself suddenly. 'Yes, he's honest certainly. 'But was he right? 'Quite! Mallinson works very hard; scents danger, I suppose. Mrs. Willoughby heaved a sigh of relief. 'There's some chance for him, then. Will he do anything great? Fielding laughed.
'Do you value Fielding's opinion? he asked. 'Oh, I don't know. On some subjects I think yes. Don't you? Mallinson began to wonder immediately whether Fielding's opinions might not be valuable after all, since Mrs. Willoughby valued them. If so, the man might be able to throw some light upon other points for instance, the perplexing question of Miss Le Mesurier's inclinations.
Flower bowled him a short-pitched, fast ball, rather wide of the off-stump. Many men might have left it alone, for the ball was rising, and the slips were crowded, but Mallinson timed the ball splendidly, and drove it with all his force. He could not keep it on the ground, however, and Stott had a possible chance. He leaped for it and just touched the ball with his right hand.
'I lied to you that evening, he whispered in a low faltering tone. 'I have no excuse Can't you guess why I lied? There was a feeling behind the words, genuine by the ring of it, and to feeling Clarice was by nature responsive. Mallinson saw the mischief die out of her face, the eyelids droop until the lashes touched the cheek. Then she raised them again, tenderness flowered in her eyes.
'No, exclaimed Fielding; 'I'll tell you the whole truth while I am about it. I advised Mrs. Willoughby to say nothing, but I behaved like a damned cad, and told Mallinson myself afterwards. I had quite another reason for telling him. 'Oh, never mind! broke in Drake. 'The question is, what's to be done now? 'You must sue the paper! 'Of course.
Mallinson made up his mind to call upon Fielding. He called on the Sunday morning, and Fielding blandly related to him his history of Sark. Having worked Mallinson to a sufficiently amusing pitch of indignation, and having hinted his moral that the subjugation of Miss Le Mesurier would be effected only by the raider, Fielding complacently dismissed him and repaired to Beaufort Gardens for lunch.
Willoughby, and seated herself beside Mallinson in one of the windows. 'I see nothing of you now, she said, and she looked the reproach of the hardly-used. 'I thought we had agreed to be friends? Mallinson sighed wearily. 'I will come and call some day, he said dejectedly. 'I have not so many friends that I can afford a loss, she answered pathetically; and then, 'Tell me about yourself.
I asked him what he thought of it, and imagine what he answered! You can't, though. It's the funniest thing I ever heard. He said it was a very clever satire. Satire! Good Lord, I almost rolled off the seat. It is funny, isn't it? Mallinson, with a wry face, agreed that the story was funny. 'I knew you would think so, pursued the Captain relentlessly.
'He looks old, though, she said, and her voice defied Fielding to contradict her. 'Responsibility writes with the cyphers of age, he quoted solemnly. It was his habit to recite sentences from A Man of Influence when Mallinson was present, in a tone which never burlesqued but somehow belittled the work.
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