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"If we have flowers at all," she said, imperiously, "let them be a gorgeous mass of bloom something worth looking at; not a few pale blossoms standing here and there like 'white sentinels'; let us have flowers full of life and fragrance. Lillian, you know what I mean; you remember Lady Manton's flowers tier after tier of magnificent color."
The darky, pleasant voiced, polite, and well trained, bowed me into a little den and proceeded to lay out a large box of cigarettes on the table beside me, as well as a humidor well filled with cigars of good quality. I took one of the latter, accepting a light and glancing about. Certainly this was in contrast with Manton's apartment. There was nothing garish, ornate, or spectacular here.
Anyhow " He sobered a bit, perhaps realizing that he was going counter to the tendency to have the author on the lot. "Millard and Stella weren't on speaking terms. She divorced him, you know." "Do you know much about the personal affairs of Miss Lamar?" "Well" Manton's eyes sought the floor for a moment "Like everyone else in pictures, Stella was the victim of a great deal of gossip.
"My dear Rite," she said, "I have been alarmed, and have sent the servants out for you. You left home in the morning, and you have not dined. Your father and Mr. Heath have arrived. Tea is just over, and we are waiting for you to dress and go into town; it is Mrs. Manton's evening, you recollect." "Must I go, mamma?" asked Marguerite, after this statement of facts. "Then I must have tea first. Mr.
"From the very first day that I saw her and Danvers together. He betrayed himself fool that he is by being too formally polite to her, before me." "And then you read this letter of his to her. How did you get hold of it?" "I was coming back from my bathe in Totoga Creek about six in the morning. Went into Manton's for a few minutes' rest and a smoke.
"What would you have me do, then?" demanded Gascoyne, whose usual decision of character seemed to have deserted him under the influence of conflicting feelings, which, the first mate could plainly perceive, agitated the breast of his commander, but which he could by no means account for. Certainly he had no sympathy with them, for Manton's was a hard, stern nature not given to the melting mood.
And, by Jove, I'll give him a chance to-night." "Where?" asked Pedro Diaz, with a gleam of sombre light in his dark eyes. 189 The Trader's Wife "At Manton's. He's sure to come in there about eleven to-night. Goodbye for the present. I'll meet you there about eight." As the doctor went over the side again the Chilian turned to Lester. "What did I tell you?" he said gloomily.
In that inclosure there were only two cars Manton's, and one we later learned belonged to Phelps. The sole human being to enter our range of vision was an office boy. He skirted the side of the building as though the menace of death were in the air, or likely to strike out of the very heavens without warning.
Claud Manton's energetic warning; it was before her, no less than before the patient, that Sir Rufus had washed his hands. She was not ignorant of the questions the world asked. She was not careless, nor was she any longer the dupe of her old delusion that such a man as Quisanté could not die.
"Let's go up to the apartment," he suggested. "I'd like to talk some of these things out with you. It will help me clarify my own impressions." Underneath the balcony I noticed Kennedy turn for a last glance at Manton's party. I paused to look, also. Enid was leaning forward, talking to Millard earnestly, emphasizing what she had to say with characteristic movements of her head.
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