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"I like her, of course," he replied pleasantly. Grace Ferrall stood thinking a moment: "That sketch you made proved a great success, didn't it?" And she laughed under her breath. "Did it? I thought Mr. Quarrier seemed annoyed " "Really? What a muff that cousin of mine is.
"Send a reliable officer out. I want an accurate report. Whom can you suggest?" Captain Manners pondered. "There's Mr. Spofforth, sir " "Too jolly lanky for the job," objected the colonel. "Mr. Danvers " "Took lowest marks at map-reading," continued the critical C.O. "A smart officer in every other respect." "Mr. Laxdale " "Lacks caution," declared Colonel Quarrier. "No pun intended.
Wade was obviously the cause of what had happened no wonder she fainted at the inquest; no wonder she hid herself in her cottage! When she ventured to come out, virtuous Polterham would let her know its mind. Quarrier shared in the condemnation, but not even political animosity dealt so severely with him as social opinion did with Mrs. Wade. Mr.
But Quarrier, if he heard, made no motion of understanding. Perhaps it had not been necessary to convince him of the conspiracy. When he had finished his figures he reviewed them, tracing each total with his pencil's point; then quietly handed the pad to Mortimer who went over it, and nodded that it was correct. Lydia rose. Quarrier said, without looking at her: "I have a blank cheque with me.
Glazzard was to call at half-past six, and they would go together to dine with Lilian. In his report to her, Quarrier had spoken nothing less than truth. "The lady with whom you chanced to see me the other day was my wife. I have been married for a year and a half a strictly private matter. Be so good as to respect my confidence."
Quarrier walked in at about a quarter-past six, savoury odours saluted him from the threshold. Glazzard had not yet arrived, but in less than five minutes a private carriage drew up to the door, and the friends hailed each other. The room prepared for them lay well apart from the bar, with its small traffic.
Has the Central Working Men's Club lost its cunning? The latest, but not the least important exhibition of Mr. Corbett's philanthropy to which we shall refer is his bequest of £2000 to Mr. William Quarrier, for the founding of a Home for Destitute and Orphan Children. To the results of Mr. Quarrier's scheme allusion has from time to time been made in the local prints.
He saw, among other people, his friend Stark, the picture-collecting lawyer. Stark had letters from Polterham which assured him that the Liberals were confident of victory. "Confounded pity that Quarrier just got the start of you!" he exclaimed. "You could have kept that seat for the rest of your life." "Better as it is," was the cheerful reply.
On reaching his brother's house, he found a letter waiting for him; it bore the Paris postmark. The contents were brief. "DEAR GLAZZARD: "I announce to you the fact of our marriage. The L.s will hear of it simultaneously. We are enjoying ourselves. "Ever yours, "D.Q." He went at once to the room where William was sitting, and said, in a quiet voice: "Quarrier has just got married in Paris." "Oh?
Glazzard agreed that this was a good way of putting it, and thereupon broached a subject so totally different that politics were finally laid aside. When Lilian rose and withdrew, the friends remained for several minutes in silence. They lighted cigarettes, and contemplatively watched the smoke. Of a sudden, Quarrier bent forward upon the table.
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