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He had felt it when he talked with Ruth about Bill and the squirrels, and he felt it now. He was conscious of being extraordinarily irritated, not so much with any particular person as with the world in general. The very vagueness of Bailey's insinuations against Basil Milbank increased his resentment. What a pompous ass Bailey was!
But he was not going to shirk his duty. He resumed: "I am only speaking for your own good," he said. "I know that it is nothing but thoughtlessness on your part, but I am naturally anxious " "Bailey," interrupted Ruth, "get to the point." Bailey drew a long breath. "Well, then," he said, baulked of his preamble, and rushing on his fate, "I think you see too much of Basil Milbank."
What urged him to this course more than anything else was Ruth's growing intimacy with Basil Milbank; for, in the period which had elapsed since the conversation recorded earlier in the story, when Kirk had first made the other's acquaintance, the gifted Basil had become a very important and menacing figure in Ruth's life. To Ruth, as to most women, his gifts were his attraction.
Sir R. Milbank contended, that modifications of a system, fundamentally wrong, ought not to be tolerated by the legislature of a free nation, Mr. Hobhouse said, that nothing could be so nefarious as this traffic in blood. It was unjust in its principles it was cruel in its practice: it admitted of no regulation whatever. The abolition of it was called for equally, by morality and sound policy, Mr.
When the evening came J. was off on a journey for work and I went alone to Fig-Tree House the little old house, with a poor shabby London apology of a fig-tree in front, on Milbank Street by the riverside, which, with Henley's near Great College Street office round the corner, has disappeared in the fury of municipal town-disfigurement.
Yes, he was at my house one night when you and Ruth dined there shortly after your return." "I don't remember him. However, it doesn't matter. But why does the fact that he has asked Ruth on his yacht excite you? Are you nervous about the sea?" "I dislike this man Milbank very much, Winfield. I think Ruth sees too much of him." Kirk stiffened. His eyebrows rose the fraction of an inch.
It was as if Kirk, and not Bailey, were standing there, demanding that she should not associate with Basil Milbank. "I shall make it my business," said Bailey, "to warn Kirk that this man is not a desirable companion for you." The discussion of this miserable yacht affair had brought back to Bailey all the jealousy which he had felt when Sybil had first told him of it.
On the twenty-seventh of February Lord Howick moved, that the House resolve itself into a committee on the bill for the abolition of the Slave-trade. Sir C. Pole, Mr. Hughan, Brown, Bathurst, Windham, and Fuller opposed the motion; and Sir R. Milbank, and Mr. At length the committee was allowed to sit pro forma, and Mr. Hobhouse was put into the chair.
Sir Laurence Parsons wished to see a plan for the gradual extinction of the trade. Lord Temple affirmed that the bill would seal the death-warrant of every White inhabitant of the islands. The second reading was supported by Sir Ralph Milbank, Messrs. Pitt, Fox, William Smith, Whitbread, Francis, Barham, and Grenfell, and Sir John Newport. Mr.
Kirk was busy and not anxious for conversation, least of all with Bailey. He had not forgotten their last tete-a-tete. Bailey, however, was regarding him with a feeling almost of friendliness. They were bound together by a common grievance against Basil Milbank.
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