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Grim eat ices you remember, Miss Medland? She bolted three while Sir John was proposing the Queen's health, and two more in the first verse of 'God save " and so Dick ran on. Mr. Norburn consulted his watch. "I'm afraid I must go," he said. "I'm due at the office." "Oh," exclaimed Daisy penitently, "I forgot. But can't I drive you back?" "I couldn't trouble you to do that.
That's the part of an intimate friend, isn't it, Mr. Derosne?" Medland was speaking to Norburn, and Dick took the opportunity of remarking, "Mayn't I come at an odd time now and then?" "Oh do. We shall be so pleased." "Mr. Norburn doesn't come at all of them, does he?" "At most. Do you mind that?" "Of course I do. Who wouldn't?" "I don't." "No, if you did I shouldn't."
"How very peculiar you are!" exclaimed Daisy, with a look of compassionate amazement. "Most people notice what I wear. Oh, and I've got a charming dress for the flower-show at Government House." "You're invited, are you?" asked Norburn, with an ill-judged exhibition of surprise. "Of course I'm invited." "I'm sorry to hear it." "Why, pray, Mr. Norburn? Are you going?" "Yes. I suppose I must."
There is, however, one sort of competition, at least, which Norburn's methods will hardly banish, and it was into the clutches of this particular form of the evil monster that Mr. Norburn was, little as he thought it, about to be pushed.
The occupants of the Club window continued to watch the Premier until he parted from his companion with a shake of the hand, and, as it seemed, a last emphatic word, and turned to Norburn, who was claiming his attention.
"What is it?" he whispered impatiently to Norburn; but his absorbed disciple only bewilderedly murmured "What?" and the Premier could not pause to tell him. Now followed what Sir Robert maintained was the greatest feat of oratory he had ever witnessed.
"My father's not a young man. What would you think if the Governor laid foundation-stones in a short jacket and a hat like yours?" "I should think him a very sensible man." "Well, I should think him a guy," said Miss Medland, with intense emphasis. This method of treating an old friend galled Norburn excessively. When anger is in, the brains are out. "I suppose Mr. Derosne is your ideal," he said.
I saw him with both Medland and Norburn on Saturday." "I don't suppose they were planning to murder this Benham. Indeed, I don't see that the thing can have been political at all. What did it matter whether Benham lived or died?" "I don't see that it did, except to Benham," assented the Captain. "But what's become of Gaspard?" "Ah, that they don't know.
He was interrupted by the entrance of his daughter and Norburn. They were troubled, as a glance at their happy faces told him, by no sense of the end of things; they were at the beginning, and he was amused to find that, while they deplored his defeat sincerely and resented it hotly, it yet had a bright side to them.
Alicia could have undeceived him, but, for reasons tolerably obvious, Dick did not rehearse this interview to Alicia or to any one else. "Ah! here comes Mr. Norburn!" cried Daisy, rosy with delight. "You must congratulate one another." This very hollow ceremony was duly performed, and Dick left the lovers together. In fact he may be said to have made his exit in a somewhat shamefaced manner.
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