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Pallant's answer was, superficially at least, irrelevant; she said after a pause: "With you, my dear man, one has certainly to dot one's 'i's. Haven't you discovered, and didn't I tell you at Homburg, that we're miserably poor?" "Isn't 'miserably' rather too much living as you are at an expensive hotel?" Well, she promptly met this. "They take us en pension, for ever so little a day.
They strolled away together while their elders rested; two or three times, in the evening, when the ballroom of the Kursaal was lighted and dance-music played, they whirled over the smooth floor in a waltz that stirred my memory. Whether it had the same effect on Mrs. Pallant's I know not: she held her peace.
You will see what time I took, and I confess that as I finished my cigar I thought it all over. There was no good reason in fact why I should have rushed into Mrs. Pallant's arms. She had not treated me well and we had never really made it up.
The House was certainly all mouth for the moment, but, as I could feel, quite in earnest. A Minister with a piece of typewritten paper seemed to be fending off volleys of insults. He reminded me somehow of a nervous huntsman breaking up a fox in the face of rabid hounds. 'It's question-time. They're asking questions, said Ollyett. 'Look! Pallant's up. There was no mistaking it.
It happened to be an Irish afternoon, and as soon as I had got the cries and the faces a little sorted out, I gathered there were grievances in the air, but how many of them was beyond me. 'It's all right, said Ollyett of the trained ear. 'They've shut their ports against oh yes export of Irish cattle! Foot-and-mouth disease at Ballyhellion. I see Pallant's idea!
His so markedly shirking our encounter for if he hadn't perceived me downstairs he might have looked for me in my room was a sign that Mrs. Pallant's interview with him would really have come off. What had she said to him? What strong measures had she taken? That almost morbid resolution I still seemed to hear the ring of pointed to conceivable extremities that I shrank from considering.
Mrs. Pallant's attention, on the other hand, rather strayed from me; after we had been left there together she sat silent, not heeding me, looking at the lake and mountains at the snowy crests crowned with the flush of evening. She seemed not even to follow our young companions as they got into their boat and pushed off.
I think I shall have to ask a Question, said Pallant, reappearing at the close of the case. 'I think I shall have to give it a little publicity too, said Woodhouse. 'We can't have this kind of thing going on, you know. His face was set and quite white. Pallant's, on the other hand, was black, and I know that my very stomach had turned with rage. Ollyett was dum.
So I adjourned. Pallant's version is that he added: 'And I was never so grateful to a private member in all my life as I was to Mr. Pallant. He made no explanation. He did not refer to orders or disorders. He simply adjourned the House till six that evening. And the House adjourned some of it nearly on all fours. I was not correct when I said that the Speaker was the only man who did not laugh.
Pallant's to let her know I was ready to take action; but even while I went I again felt the unlikelihood of the part attributed by my fears and by the mother's own, so far as they had been roused, to Linda. Certainly if she was such a girl as these fears represented her she would fly at higher game. It was with an eye to high game, Mrs.
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