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"Something will be said if I go," observed Malcourt cheerfully. Portlaw was exasperated. "There's a girl there you behaved badly to. You'd better stay away." Malcourt looked innocently surprised. "Now, who could that be! I have, it is true, at times, misbehaved, but I can't ever remember behaving badly " Portlaw, too mad to speak, strode wrathfully away toward the stables.
The weak usually experience it at the beginning and through every step of their own subjugation. Malcourt, having decided to take an express which stopped on signal at six in the morning, was reading as usual before the empty fireplace; and at the first glance he suspected what had begun to happen to Portlaw.
However, Portlaw was able to enlighten her if he cared to. Again and again Hamil, wandering in circles, looked across the wilderness of women's hats at Shiela Cardross, but a dozen men surrounded her, and among them he noticed the graceful figure of Malcourt directly in front of her, blocking any signal he might have given. Somebody was saying something about Mrs. Ascott.
First, a man must have a mind to make up; then he must have enough intelligence to make it up." "Certainly," nodded Hamil. "I'm glad you understand me," said Portlaw, gratified. "Alida understands me; why, do you know that, somehow, everything I think of she seems to agree to; in fact, sometimes on one or two unimportant matters, I actually believe that Mrs.
Portlaw looked up dully: "Those robins come up here and fatten on our fruit, and a fool law forbids us to shoot 'em. Robin pie," he added, "is not to be despised, but a sentimental legislature is the limit.... Sentiment always did bore me.... How do you feel after your luncheon?" "All right," said Hamil, smiling. "I'd like to start out as soon as Malcourt comes back."
Hamil, therefore, was prepared for a simple yet difficult problem to do as little harm to the place as possible, and to appease Portlaw at the same time, and curb his meddlesome and iconoclastic proclivities.
What do you think of that!" demanded Portlaw, turning to Hamil as he entered the room; and unheeding Malcourt's instinctive gesture of caution which he gave, not comprehending why he gave it, Portlaw went on, fairly pouting out his irritation: "In that bally mail-sack which Louis brought in from Pride's Fall there's a telegram from your friend, Neville Cardross; and why the devil he wants Louis to come to New York on the jump "
"Wh-what!" bawled Portlaw, dropping knife and fork. "I I want to see that girl again some time," said Malcourt thoughtfully. "I would like to tell her that I didn't mean it case of boy and grasshopper, you know.... Well, as you say, gun-play has no place in real novels.
"Well, what the devil does it mean?" demanded Portlaw peevishly. "I can't spare you now. How can I? Here's Hamil all ready for you to take him about and show him what I want to have done " "I wonder what it means," mused Malcourt. "Maybe there's something wrong with the Tressilvain end of the family. The Shoshone Securities people manage her investments here "
There was a few moments' silence; the trowel, driven abruptly into the earth to the hilt, served as a prop for her clinched hand. "I think Louis is very well," she said. "He is remaining permanently with Mr. Portlaw?" "I think so." "I hope it will be agreeable for you both." "It is a very beautiful country."
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