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Updated: June 6, 2025
He could never get over Reggie's look of youth and "you-be-damned" air; and he couldn't understand Reggie's friends clean-built, careless men in the Army who rode over to big Sunday breakfasts at the Bank, and told sultry stories till Riley got up and left the room.
"I'll give him another three months in his bed and a week or so more to die in. On my honor and reputation that's all the grace he has in this world. Consumption has hold of him to the marrow." Reggie's face changed at once into the face of "Mr. Reginald Burke," and he answered: "What can I do?" "Nothing," said the doctor. "For all practical purposes the man is dead already.
But really that she should be forsaken and neglected for this chit of a girl this interloping American it was too much! Reggie's wrath glowed within him. Meanwhile Manisty addressed Lucy. 'I have something I very much wish to say to you. There is a seat by the fountain, quite in shade. Will you try it? She glanced hurriedly at her companions.
Derrick reached for Reggie's empty tumbler and made a feint of throwing it at him, and Reggie went off, laughing. If he did not sit in the same place all the evening, certainly Derrick "mooned," as Reggie had prophesied. The mention of Lady Gridborough had recalled the past, when he had been a favoured friend of the old lady's.
Geoffrey's prudence and stolidity had more than once saved the young man from the brink of sentimental precipices. For Reggie's unquestionable musical talent found its nourishment in love affairs dangerously unsophisticated. He refused to consider marriage with any of the sweet young things, who would gladly have risked his lukewarm interest for the chance of becoming an Ambassador's wife.
And I told her then what had happened. I can see her sitting in the nuns' parlour, looking out of the window as I told her; looking as if she wasn't listening. And I can hear my own voice. It sounded strange and affected, as if I had made it all up and didn't believe what I was telling her. "He saved Reggie's life do you see? at the risk of his own. "At the risk of his own."
And there had been moments, many of them, in Reggie's life, before Uncle Alick died and left him the fruit farm, when he was convinced that to be a widow's only son was about the worst punishment a chap could have. And what made it rougher than ever was that she was positively all that he had.
"He has just left me. He came to tell me that you," he looked during a moment's pause in Reggie's wide eyes, "were engaged to be married to his daughter." "Well! Come! That's a good 'un!" Reggie was surprised, his brother saw, but not so satisfactorily taken aback as he had hoped. "Is it so?" "No." "Then, what did the man mean by daring to say it to me?"
Meanwhile his valet was flitting silently here and there, getting ready his afternoon costume; and Montague, in spite of himself, followed the man with his eyes. A haberdasher's shop might have been kept going for quite a while upon the contents of Reggie's dressers.
It was necessary, he perceived, to take a strong line from the start, and convince Reggie that any likeness which the latter might suppose that he detected between his companion of that afternoon and the waiter of tonight existed only in his heated imagination. As George turned, Reggie's pleasant face, pink with healthful exercise and Lord Marshmoreton's finest Bollinger, lost most of its colour.
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