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'He went away at half-past two, was her reply to his question. 'How annoying! I wanted particularly to see him. I have been running about all day, and couldn't get here before. Something important most important. At all events, I can tell you. But I entreat that you won't breathe a word save to your father. Mr Quarmby that was his name had taken a vacant chair and drawn it close to Marian's.
Quarmby, of course, is comparatively flourishing. Well, we have been companions for a quarter of a century, we three. When I first met Quarmby I was a Grub Street gazetteer, and I think he was even poorer than I. A life of toil! A life of toil! 'That it has been, indeed.
Then did the room ring with scornful laughter, with boisterous satire, with shouted irony, with fierce invective. After an evening of that kind Yule was unwell and miserable for several days. It was not to be expected that Mr Quarmby, inveterate chatterbox of the Reading-room and other resorts, should keep silence concerning what he had heard of Mr Rackett's intentions.
To his wife Yule seldom addressed anything but a curt inquiry or caustic comment; if he spoke humanly at table it was to Marian. Ten minutes passed; then Marian resolved to try any means of clearing the atmosphere. 'Mr Quarmby gave me a message for you, she said. 'A friend of his, Nathaniel Walker, has told him that Mr Rackett will very likely offer you the editorship of The Study.
Though in this instance a corrector, Mr Quarmby took an opportunity, a few hours later, of informing Mr Hinks that the attack on Yule in The Current was almost certainly written by young Milvain, with the result that when the rumour reached Yule's ears it was delivered as an undoubted and well-known fact.
On the evening of the second day, about an hour after dinner was over, Mr Hinks called at the house; as usual, he went into the study. Before long came a second visitor, Mr Quarmby, who joined Yule and Hinks. The three had all sat together for some time, when Marian, who happened to be coming down stairs, saw her father at the study door.
Mr Quarmby and his gossips naturally took the darkest view of things; they were convinced that Alfred Yule could never recover his sight, and they had a dolorous satisfaction in relating the story of Marian's legacy. Of her relations with Jasper Milvain none of these persons had heard; Yule had never spoken of that matter to any one of his friends.
'What's your view, Marian? Is there anything to be said for the establishment of a literary academy in England? Mr Quarmby beamed benevolently upon her, and Mr Hinks, his scraggy neck at full length, awaited her reply with a look of the most respectful attention. 'I really think we have quite enough literary quarrelling as it is, the girl replied, casting down her eyes and smiling.
MR. ERWYN, betrothed to Lady Allonby. VANRINGHAM, an impudent tragedian of the Globe Company. QUARMBY, Vanringham's associate. Miss ALLONBY, an heiress, of a petulant humor, in love with Audaine. MARCHIONESS OF FALMOUTH, an impertinent affected dowager, and grandmother to Miss Allonby. LADY ALLONBY, step-mother to Miss Allonby and Gerald. POSTILIONS, SERVANTS, Etc.
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