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May I ask where it was?" "At Hadlow House Lord Plowden's place, you know." The General's surprise at the announcement was undoubted. "At Plowden's!" he repeated, and added, as if half to himself, "I thought that was all over with, long ago." "I wish you'd tell me about it," said Thorpe, daringly. "I've made it plain to you, haven't I? I'm going to look out for you.
Thorpe had been prepared to hail this consummation of his trick with boisterous and scornful mirth. Even while the victim was deciphering the fatal paper, he had restrained with impatience the desire to burst out into bitter laughter. But now there was something in the aspect of Plowden's collapse which seemed to forbid triumphant derision.
Plowden's first reception by Theodore was courteous in the extreme; but he had this time to deal with a very different kind of man to his predecessor.
A young man came to me today came into my room all cock-a-whoop, smiling to himself with the notion that he had only to name what he wanted, and I would give it to him and " He stopped abruptly, with a confused little laugh. He had been upon the brink of telling about Lord Plowden's discomfiture, and even now the story itched upon his tongue.
There had been, as well, the General's hint that if the difficulty of Plowden's poverty were removed, he might still wish to marry her a hint which Thorpe discovered to be rankling with a sudden new soreness in his mind. Was that why he hated Plowden? No he said to himself that it was not. He was going to marry Lady Cressage himself.
I wondered how the people could thread their way along the pavement, and more how they could venture to cross the road while carriages were dashing by at a rate so furious that I thought they must be constantly running into each other. After proceeding some miles to the west-end of London, we reached Mr Plowden's house.
But after all that's been said and done I put it to you as one man to another you are morally bound to help me out." "How do you mean? 'all that's been said and done'?" Thorpe asked the question in some confusion of moods. Perhaps it was the ethical force of Lord Plowden's appeal, perhaps only a recurring sense of his earlier affection for the man but for the moment he wavered in his purpose.
The little book which contained the explanations of Miss Plowden's signals was now hastily produced, and its leaves rapidly run over in quest of the necessary number. "Tis only a question to gain my attention. I must let him know he is observed."
A vision of Lord Plowden's absurd predicament rose vividly before him, and he chuckled aloud at it. It seemed only the most natural thing in the world that, at this instant, a clerk should open the door and nod with meaning to the master. The visitor whom he had warned the people in the outer office he expected, had arrived. Thorpe was still laughing to himself when Lord Plowden entered. "Hallo!
In this direction also no small number of sportsmen, with Gordon dimming at their head, have penetrated far into the interior, many of them having given accounts of their exploits to the world. The travels of Mansfield Parkyns, and his description of life in Abyssinia, as well as Plowden's, Stern's, and many others, are of the deepest interest.
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