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"Yes," replied the other. His voice was muffled, as if his tongue was swollen, and there was a startling break in it. Oscard stepped aside, and Durnovo passed into his own house. "Got a light?" he said, in the same muffled way. In the next room Joseph could be heard striking a match, and a moment later he entered the room, throwing a flood of light before him. "GOOD GOD!" cried Guy Oscard.
She was keenly alive to the advantage of turning her face away. For in her pocket she had at that moment a letter from Guy Oscard the last relic of the old excitement which was so dear to her, and which she was already beginning to miss. Joseph had posted this letter in Msala nearly two months before.
Whereupon Guy Oscard grunted unintelligibly. "Millicent," he said after a little pause "Millicent is her name." "Millicent?" repeated Jocelyn "Millicent WHAT?" "Millicent Chyne." Jocelyn folded the morocco case together and handed it back to him. "She is very pretty," she repeated slowly, as if her mind could only reproduce it was incapable of creation. Oscard looked puzzled.
He whined and cringed to his own offspring, and begged him to give him the bottle. He dragged across the floor on his knees three thousand pounds a year on its knees to Guy Oscard, who wanted that money because he knew that he would never get Millicent Chyne without it. "Get back to bed!" repeated Guy sternly, and at last the man crept sullenly between the rumpled sheets.
There was a twinkle in Jack Meredith's eyes, but Oscard was quite grave. His sense of humour was not very keen, and he was before all things a sportsman. "I left the canoes a mile below Msala, and landed to shoot a deer we saw drinking, but I never saw him. Then I heard you, and I have been stalking you ever since." "But I never expected you so soon; you were not due till look!"
A black servant a stranger held the handle, and stood back invitingly. Supported by Joseph's arm, Jack Meredith entered. The servant threw open the drawing-room door; they passed in. The room was empty. On the table lay two letters, one addressed to Guy Oscard, the other to Jack Meredith. Meredith felt suddenly how weak he was, and sat wearily down on the sofa. "Give me that letter," he said.
It came so slowly, so gently through the whisper of the dripping leaves that it would enter into his slumbers and make itself part of them. Guy Oscard only realised the meaning of that sound when a black shadow crept on to the smooth evenness of the river's breast. Oscard was eminently a man of action.
Guy Oscard followed his companion into the hall, and the very scent of the house for each house speaks to more senses than one made his heart leap in his broad breast. It seemed as if Millicent's presence was in the very air. This was more than he could have hoped. He had not intended to call this afternoon, although the visit was only to have been postponed for twenty-four hours.
"Whatever comes of this expedition of ours if we fight like hell, as we probably shall, before it is finished if we hate each other ever afterwards, that skin ought to remind us that we are much of a muchness." It might have been put into better English; it might almost have sounded like poetry had Guy Oscard been possessed of the poetic soul.
Your father stayed on there because the carpets fitted the rooms, and on account of other ancestral conveniences. He did not live there he knew nothing of his immediate environments. He lived in Phoenicia." "Then," continued Guy Oscard, "I shall go abroad." "Ah! Will you have a second cup? Why will you go abroad?" Guy Oscard paused for a moment.
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