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And the full sense of his loss was still upon him. Wrong as he knew himself to be, he resented the newcomer's presence in his old home, and could not help regarding her as something in the nature of a usurper. The camp to which he was riding was a wretched enough place. Nor could Nature, here in her most luxuriant mood, relieve it from its sordid aspect.
His visits to the newcomer's studio began again, and Beverley's picture, now nearing completion, came in for criticism enough to have filled a volume. The good humour with which he received it amazed Annette. Beverley, however, appeared to have no artistic sensitiveness whatsoever.
"It appears like I'd maybe made a bad selection then. I'm sorry about that," Harris deprecated in a negligent tone that belied his words. "It's hard to tell just how it will pan out." "Not so very hard if you can read," the dark man contradicted. The newcomer's gaze returned from down the valley and settled on Morrow's face.
His headlong nature impelled him to the earliest possible digestion of the life he was about to enter. So he had insisted on a tour of inspection. The inspection was of necessity brief. There was so little to be seen in the way of an outward display of the prosperity his elder brother claimed. In consequence, as it proceeded, the newcomer's spirits fell.
The precise young man by a motion of his eyes directed the newcomer's attention to Lewisham's waterproof collar, and was answered by raised eyebrows and a faint tightening of the mouth. "That bounder at Castleford has answered me," said the new-comer in a fine rich voice. "Is he any bally good?"
He had a loud voice and an assertive manner, and Mrs. Ingleton gazed at him in frozen surprise. Sylvia turned towards her. "May I introduce Mr. Preston the M.F.H.?" Her tone was cold. If the newcomer's advent had been a welcome diversion it obviously gave her no pleasure. Preston, however, plainly did not stand in need of any encouragement. He strode up to Mrs.
The newcomer's cheery greeting was strangely at variance with his manner, which was as diffident as that of a village dog on the Fourth of July. As he advanced toward the showroom he exhaled the odour of mothballs, characteristic of an old stock of cloaks and suits, so that before he looked up Morris was able to identify his visitor. "Hello, Sam!" he said. "When did you get in?"
Chadron stood as if frozen in his boots, his face growing whiter than wounded, blood-drained Macdonald's on his cot of pain. Now the sound of the newcomer's voice rose in the hall, loud and stern. But harsh as it was, and unfriendly to that house, the sound of it made Frances' heart jump, and something big and warm rise in her and sweep over her; dimming her eyes with tears.
His first look was for Marise. She was pale. He had not dreamed it. The voice went on . . . the newcomer's, the one they called Eugenia . . . yes, she had known them in Italy. Marise had just said they had been friends before her marriage. The voice went on. How he listened as though crouched before the keyhole of a door!
She wore black furs, and a dark veil partially concealing her features, but revealing the strange pallor of her face. The audience, who had a view of the newcomer's back, noted her masses of tawny red hair, set off by a fur toque. The colonel put her to the question at once. "You are the person who said 'I'?" The young woman was greatly moved, but she answered firmly: "Yes, Monsieur. That is so."
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