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First there was Percy Draymore, overgroomed for a gentleman, fat, good-humoured, and fashionable one of the famous Draymore family noted solely for their money and their tight grip on it; then came Sanxon Orchil, the famous banker and promoter, small, urbane, dark, with that rich almost oriental coloring which he may have inherited from his Cordova ancestors who found it necessary to dehumanise their names when Rome offered them the choice with immediate eternity as alternative.
"There'll be a small game at the Fountain Club," he said, with a grin which creased his cheeks until his retreating chin almost disappeared under the thick lower lip. Orchil twiddled his long, crinkly, pointed moustache and glanced interrogatively at Harmon; then he yawned, stretched his arms, and rose, pocketing the check, which Ruthven passed to him, with a careless nod of thanks.
"Not treachery, only temptation," observed Ruthven blandly. "I've talked it all over with Orchil and Mottly " "You what!" gasped Neergard. "Talked about it," repeated Ruthven, hard face guileless, and raising his eyebrows a dreadful caricature of youth in the misleading smoothness of the minutely shaven face; "I told Orchil what you persuaded me to do " "You you damned "
"If I'd known that," he laughed, "I'd have had it happen frequently." She only shook her head, watching him unsmiling. But the pulse in her had become very quiet again. "It's no end of fun in that canoe," he observed. "Gladys Orchil and I work it beautifully." "I saw you did," she nodded. "Oh! Where were you? Why didn't you come?" "I don't know. Gladys called you.
Orchil snapped her electric-blue eyes and held her peace between her very white teeth; Austin Gerard, secretly astounded with admiration for Gerald, received the reporters with a countenance expressive of patient pain, but downtown he made public pretence of busy indifference, as though not fully alive to the material benefit connected with the unexpected alliance.
They are directed to sell these goods, and to send back returns in Orchil , sugar, and kid skins. Astl. "At length, about the middle of the sixteenth century, the English spirit of trade, meeting with favourable circumstances, began to exert itself, and to extend its adventures to the south as well as the north.
"Yes," said Larry again, "the Tuatha De the Ancient Ones who had spells that could compel Mananan, who is the spirit of all the seas, an' Keithor, who is the god of all green living things, an' even Hesus, the unseen god, whose pulse is the pulse of all the firmament; yes, an' Orchil too, who sits within the earth an' weaves with the shuttle of mystery and her three looms of birth an' life an' death even Orchil would weave as they commanded!"
Her set was not the Orchils' set, their ways were not her ways; their orbits merely intersected occasionally; and, left to herself and the choice hers, she would not have troubled herself to engineer any such alliance, even to stir up Mrs. Sanxon Orchil. Besides, deep in her complacent little New York soul she had the faintest germ of contempt for the Cordova ancestors of the house of Orchil.
I" all her latent instinct for such meddling aroused "I thought perhaps you meant Gladys." "Gladys who?" he asked blandly. "Gladys Orchil, silly! People said " "Oh, Lord!" he exclaimed; "if people 'said, then it's all over. Nina! do I look like a man on a still hunt for a million?" "Gladys is a beauty!" retorted Nina indignantly. "With the intellect of a Persian kitten," he nodded.
For a moment he measured her from the edge of her skirt to her golden head, insolently. "You might remind your husband," he said, "that I'd rather like to have a card to the Orchil affair." "There is no use in speaking to George," she replied regretfully, shaking her head.
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