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After all, it mattered very little to him; he would be out of it all in a month, and the Medlands were not, when he came to think of it, people of great importance. Why, the Grangers had never heard of them! Decidedly, he had had enough and to spare of the Medlands. Nevertheless, he was to have a little more of them, for at this instant he saw Daisy Medland approaching him.
After a pause she made another attempt. "Mr. Medland!" "Yes?" "You've been very good to me yes, very good." He turned to her with a gesture of disclaimer. She thought he was going to speak, but he did not. "Whatever happens, I shall always remember that with with deep gratitude." "What is going to happen?" he asked, with an uneasy smile. "Oh, how can I?" she burst out. "How can I say it?
Then, as soon as Daisy can be ready, sir?" "Yes, as soon as Daisy can be ready," assented Medland. When, after thanks and some more rose-coloured prophecies, they were gone together, he rose and, hands in pockets, paced up and down the narrow room. "Really, young Norburn has got the philosophy of it," he mused. "He takes my daughter, and his philosophy takes the only other woman I care about!
A long period of intimacy and favour excluded from his mind the suspicion that he might have to fight for his position with Daisy Medland; and, if he could have brought himself to entertain the thought of a successful rival of some one who, coming suddenly between, should break the strong bonds of affection well tried by time he certainly would not have expected to find such a competitor in Dick Derosne.
Wasn't he splendid?" and looking so completely joyful that Medland was sure she must quite have forgotten Dick Derosne. She took his arm, and they made their way together to a carriage which was in waiting. An escort of police surrounded it, to save the Premier from his friends, and he, with Daisy, Norburn, and Mr. Floyd, the Treasurer, got in without disturbance.
Who the deuce has she got there?" Miss Medland had Norburn with her, and Norburn was just explaining to her for he did not imitate her father's forbearance the methods by which he proposed to banish the evil monster, competition, from the world.
"Of course I say it in strict " "Yes, but still I should say the same to Norburn." They walked on a few steps, and the Premier had just taken his cigar from his mouth in order to resume the conversation, when a man stepped up to him, appearing, as it seemed, from among the trees, and said, "May I have a word with you, Mr. Medland?"
There was hardly a cheer, and Medland himself, whom the result seemed hardly to have roused, woke with a start to the unwonted silence. It struck to his heart: it seemed like a tribute of respect to a dead enemy. But he rose and briefly said that on the next day an announcement of the Government's intentions would be made by himself he paused here a moment or one of his colleagues.
"It's only the beard that puzzles you," said the stranger, with a grim smile. "Benyon!" exclaimed the Premier. "I thought you had left the country. What do you want with me, sir?" "I have not left the country, and I want a good deal with you, Mr. Premier Medland." "I lost touch of you four years ago." "Yes; it ceased to matter what became of me about then, didn't it?"
Medland monopolised Alicia in the Park the other afternoon." "Oh, that was my fault." "It makes no difference how it came about. Willie, she had eyes and ears for no one else," and Lady Eynesford's voice became very earnest. "But it's preposterous, Mary. You must be wrong. There couldn't possibly be anything of the kind." "You know the sort of girl she is," his wife went on.
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