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I protested; and for the rest of the evening, till we separated our conversation had taken place after dinner at the Kursaal she said little, preserving a subdued and almost injured air. This somehow didn't appeal to me, since it was absurd that Louisa Pallant, of all women, should propose to put me in the wrong. If ever a woman had been in the wrong herself ! I had even no need to go into that.
There came a fresh, apparently causeless gust a few minutes later savage, threatening, but futile. It died out one could hear the sigh in sudden wrathful realisation of the dreary hours ahead, and the ship of state drifted on. Then Pallant and the raw House winced at the torture of his voice rose. It was a twenty-line question, studded with legal technicalities.
"I'm almost capable of writing to her to come out," said Mrs. Pallant. "You ARE warning me," I cried, "but I hardly know of what! It seems to me my responsibility would begin only at the moment your daughter herself should seem in danger." "Oh you needn't mind that I'll take care of Linda." But I went on. "If you think she's in danger already I'll carry him off to-morrow."
Misprision of treason or compounding a felony or what? said Ollyett. 'I'll tell you later. Pallant went back to the paper with knitted brows, smiling unpleasantly from time to time. At last he laughed. 'Thank you! he said to Woodhouse. 'It ought to be pretty useful for us. 'What d'you mean? said Ollyett. 'For our side. They are all Rads who are mixed up in this from the Chief Constable down.
One of the effects of that cause, on the spot, was that at the end of a very short time Archie proposed to her to take a turn with him in his boat, which awaited us at the foot of the steps. She looked at her mother with a smiling "May I, mamma?" and Mrs. Pallant answered "Certainly, darling, if you're not afraid."
She has very old-fashioned ideas haven't you, mamma?" she added, looking over my head at Mrs. Pallant, who had just come in behind me. I forget how her mother met Linda's appeal; Louisa stood there with two letters, sealed and addressed, in her hand. She greeted me gaily and then asked her daughter if she were possessed of postage-stamps.
Particular note should be made of the pottery removed from a British tomb at Walberton; also of the curious old lantern called the "moon," formerly carried in municipal processions after dark. The "Pallant," a corruption of Palatinate, was once an ecclesiastical peculiar; it consists of four streets between South and East Streets.
Nothing that I expected approached what I got. Politics are not my concern, but, for the moment, since it seemed that they were going to 'huckle' with the rest, I took an interest in them. They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies, and I was confirmed in this when an unshaven and unwashen Pallant called on me at ten o'clock one morning, begging for a bath and a couch.
You ought to have one your side the county, Mike. They simply can't resist it. 'Whew! said Woodhouse. 'We're in for trouble. Don't you say a word or Ollyett either! I'll pay the fines and we'll get it over as soon as possible. Where's Pallant? 'At the back of the court somewhere, said Ollyett. 'I saw him slip in just now.
I assured her I had really seen little of him; I believed him to be six feet high and of tolerable parts. He was an only son, but there was a little sister at home, a delicate, rather blighted child, demanding all the mother's care. "So that makes your responsibility greater, as it were, about the boy, doesn't it?" said Mrs. Pallant. "Greater? I'm sure I don't know."
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