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Updated: July 4, 2025
"Oh, Lubin, it was lovely!" cried Austin, enthusiastically. "I do wish you could see it. And the garden! Of course this one's lovely too, and I love it, but the garden at the Court is simply divine. It's on a great scale, you know, and there are huge orchid-houses, and flaming carnations, and stained tulips, and gilded lilies, and a wonderful grass terrace, and "
He asked how the grapes were looking, and had a peep at them and the melons. Then went on through the orchid-houses, reeking with heat and moisture, and at last stood still wiping his head in the hot sunshine. "They do you credit, Barnett," he said. "I'm very glad to see how you have thrown yourself into the gap, and managed now poor John Grange is down; everything looks perfect.
"Be pleased to wreck no more of my orchid-houses and to exercise your great wit on your equals and juniors," he added. Dam budged not an inch and relaxed not a muscle. "You may go," said "Grandfather".... "Well what are you waiting for?" "I was waiting for Sergeant Havlan to begin," was the reply. "I thought I was to have a second dozen."
Cairn was still standing staring thoughtfully out of the window in the direction of the orchid-houses. He turned, and walking back to the bedside, bent over the patient. Her face was like a white mask; she was quite unconscious; and so far as he could see showed no change either for better or worse.
"Our friend," I said, "has asked for one hour for consideration. If you will allow me, I should be pleased to show you the gardens and stables." He accepted my offer at once, and proved himself an intelligent sightseer. He seemed to know a little about everything, including horses. I took him on to the orchid-houses, and it was quite an hour and a half before we returned to the house.
A rich trader who spends £5,000 a year on orchid-houses cannot very well afford to reprove a man who pays 50s. per week for each of a dozen horses in training. Rich folk, whose wealth has been fostered during the long security of England, will indulge in superfluities, and no one can stop them.
Lord Mallow was always at hand, in the orchid-houses, carrying scissors and adjusting the hose, in the library, in the gardens, in the boudoir. He was drinking greedily of the sweet poison.
He looked out from the rose-entwined casement across the shrubbery, to where the moonlight glittered among the trees. Those were the orchid-houses; and with his back to the bed, Dr. Cairn stood for long, thoughtfully watching the distant gleams of reflected light. Craig Fenton and Sir Elwin Groves, with whom he had been consulting, were but just gone.
I ask with trembling, for there is no more magnificent member of creation. But if I could get at him, to ask him about an orchid I saw in one of your houses yesterday, I should be grateful." "Come into the next garden, then," said Ancoats, "where the orchid-houses are. If he isn't there, we'll send for him." "Then, Lady Tressady, you must come and see me through," said Sir Philip, gallantly.
It was like an oven, and the smell was stifling " "What smell?" asked Dr. Cairn. "Can you describe it?" "Excuse me, sir, but I seem to notice it here in this room to-night, and I think I noticed it about the place before never so strong as in the orchid-houses." "Go on!" said Dr. Cairn. "I went through the first house, and saw nothing.
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