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Mitchy had been watching his friend, who, a few minutes before perceptibly embarrassed, had quite recovered himself and, at his ease, though still perhaps with a smile a trifle strained, leaned back and let his eyes play everywhere but over the faces of the others. Vanderbank evidently wished now to show a good-humoured detachment.
"But wouldn't it be, as regards another pair, locking the stable-door after what do you call it? Don't Petherton and Aggie appear already to have escaped together? Mitchy, man, where in the world's your wife?" "I quite grant you," said the Duchess gaily, "that my niece is wherever Petherton is. This I'm sure of, for THERE'S a friendship, if you please, that has not been interrupted.
But I've none the less a crow to pick with you." Mr. Longdon returned her look, but returned it somehow to Van. "You frighten me, you know, out of my wits." "I do?" said Vanderbank. Mr. Longdon just hesitated. "Yes." "It must be the sacred terror," Mrs. Brook suggested to Van, "that Mitchy so often speaks of. I'M not trying with you," she went on to Mr.
The penalty Mitchy had incurred was apparently grave enough to make his companion just falter in the infliction of it; which gave him the opportunity of replying that the little person was perhaps not more preposterous than any one else, that there was something in her he rather liked, and that there were many different ways in which a woman could be interesting.
"The reason is largely," his friend answered, "that, being very fond of Aggie and in fact extremely admiring her, she wants to do something good for her and to keep her from anything bad. Don't you know it's too charming she regularly believes in her?" Mitchy, with all his recognition, vibrated to the touch. "Isn't it too charming?"
Brook, by the same token," Mitchy developed, "knows herself no one better what may frequently be thought of it. That's precisely the reason of her desire that you should have on this occasion explanations from a source that she's so good as to pronounce, for the immediate purpose, superior. As for Nanda," he wound up, "to be aware that we're here together won't strike her as so bad a sign."
"It strikes me as odd his imagining awfully acute as he is that she has NOT guessed. One wouldn't have thought he could live with her here in such an intimacy seeing her every day and pretty much all day and make such a mistake." Vanderbank, his great length all of a lounge again, turned it over. "And yet I do thoroughly feel the mistake's not yours." Mitchy had a new serenity of affirmation.
"Whatever you do will be right," Mitchy returned "even though it should happen to be sometimes what I do." His companion, as if to look at him with a due appreciation of this, stopped swinging the nippers and put them on. "You people here have a pleasant way !" "Oh we HAVE!" Mitchy, taking him up, was gaily emphatic.
Mitchy declared. Vanderbank visibly demurred. "Ah but your choice !" "Is such a different sort of thing?" Mitchy, for the half-hour, in the ambiguous dusk, had never looked more droll. "The young lady I named isn't my CHOICE." "Well then, that's only a sign the more that you do these things more easily." "Oh 'easily'!" Mitchy murmured.
"Why doesn't he marry, you mean?" Mr. Longdon fairly flushed with recognition. "You're very deep, but with what we perceive why doesn't he?" Mitchy continued visibly to have his amusement, which might have been, this time and in spite of the amalgamation he had pictured, for what "they" perceived. But he threw off after an instant an answer clearly intended to meet the case.
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