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It would lift a tremendous responsibility off the birds who've been expected to shoulder it heretofore if it could be introduced into real life." Rulledge fetched a long, simple-hearted sigh. "Well, it's a charming story. How well he told it!" The waiter came again, and this time signalled to Minver. "Yes," he said, as he rose. "What a pity you can't believe a word Halson says."
Nothing can be more vital in the history of a man and a woman than how they became husband and wife, and yet not merely the details, but the main fact, would seem to escape record if not recollection. The next generations knows nothing of it." "That appears to let Acton out," Minver said. "But how do you know what you were saying, Wanhope?"
It would lift an immense responsibility off the birds who've been expected to shoulder it heretofore if it could be introduced into real life." Rulledge fetched a long, simple-hearted sigh. "Well, it's a charming story. How well he told it!" The waiter came again, and this time signalled to Minver. "Yes," he said, as he rose. "What a pity you can't believe a word Halson says."
The fever might have gone the worse with her because of her over-fed robustness; at any rate it went badly enough. I first heard of her death from Minver at the club, and I heard with still greater astonishment that Alderling was down there alone where she had died. Minver said that somebody ought to go down and look after the poor old fellow, but nobody seemed to feel it exactly his office.
The sum of her impressions was that Braybridge and Miss Hazelwood were getting a kind of comfort out of their mutual terror because one was as badly frightened as the other. It was a novel experience for both. Ever seen her?" We looked at one another. Minver said: "I never wanted to paint any one so much. It was at the spring show of the American Artists.
Such things seem mostly to happen either in the privity of people who are born liars, or else they deprave the spectator so, through his spiritual vanity or his love of the marvelous, that you can't believe a word he says. "They are as bad as horses on human morals," said Minver. "Not that I think it ever needed the coming of a ghost to invalidate any statement of Mrs. Ormond's."
But she can't be said to have knowingly searched the void for any presence." "Oh, I'm not sure about that, Professor," Minver put in. "Go a little slower, if you expect me to follow you." "It's all a mystery, the most beautiful mystery of life," Wanhope resumed. "I don't believe I could make out the case as I feel it to be." "Braybridge's part of the case is rather plain, isn't it?" I invited him.
He was far too literary for that," I answered. "He had a reputation to lose." "Pretty good," said Minver, "even if Ormond is dead." Wanhope ignored us both. "After awhile, his wife said, she began to notice a certain change in his attitude toward the personifications. She noticed this, always expecting that fit of sickness for him; but she was not so much troubled by his returning seriousness.
As she said, she never went to sleep without expecting to wake up murdered in her bed." "Like her," said Minver, with a glance at me full of relish for the touch of character which I would feel with him. "She said," Wanhope went on, "that she was anxious from the first for the effect upon Ormond.
I invited him. "I'm not sure of that. No man's part of any case is plain, if you look at it carefully. The most that you can say of Braybridge is that he is rather a simple nature. But nothing," the psychologist added with one of his deep breaths, "is so complex as a simple nature." "Well," Minver contended, "Braybridge is plain, if his case isn't." "Plain? Is he plain?"
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