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"Is that what he is?" Hickson asked with, for him, unusual directness. Riatt's affirmative was not very decided, and Ned went on: "I can't even talk to Nancy about it. She's keen, but she does not understand Christine. She attributes the most shocking motives to her, and when I object, she says every one is like that, only I haven't sense enough to see it.
Strange to say my motive is altruistic so altruistic that I feel I should sign myself 'Pro Bono Publico, instead of Nancy Almar. There is no one down here in the drawing-room at the moment." Riatt's room. She did not have long to wait. Riatt, with all the satisfaction in his bearing of one who has just bathed, shaved and eaten, came down to her at once.
Riatt's first thought on laying down the letter was: "Hickson never in the world objected to any little poet just out of college, and she knows it very well. It's Linburne he is worried about Linburne, whose name she does not even mention." And how absurd to attempt to make him believe she had cried all night. That was simply an untruth.
"Give me a towel. I'll do it." And he felt more than rewarded when, as she handed him a towel, her hand touched his. The many duties of which she had just spoken seemed suddenly to have melted away, for she sat down quite idly and watched him. "How well you do it, Edward," she said, not quite honestly, for she compared his slow gestures very unfavorably with Riatt's deft hands.
"It mayn't have been terrible for you," put in Ussher, who had a habit of conversational reversion, "but I bet it was no joke in the tool-house! How an intelligent woman like you, Christine, could dream of making a man spend the night in that hole, just for the sake of " "But I thought it was Mr. Riatt's own choice," said Nancy gently.
I am not of a jealous temperament and should always prefer to see a woman happy with another man." "And often do, I dare say," said Nancy. "I have a point of seven, and fourteen aces." "I must own I can't see Riatt's irresistible quality," said Hickson irritably. "Rich, nice-looking and has his wits about him," replied Mrs. Almar succinctly. "About as good-looking as a fence-rail."
Lane, referring to some cousins of Riatt's about whom, it is to be feared, he had not thought for weeks. Dorothy laughed. "What does he care for home-staying cousins when he is leaving a lovely creature languishing for him in New York?" she said. "I doubt if Christine does much languishing," he returned, though the idea was not at all disagreeable to him.
"We're not dining till a quarter past eight, my dears," said Mrs. Ussher. Both ladies thought they would lie down before dinner. And here chance took a hand. Riatt's train was late, whereas Christine's clock was fast. And so it happened that she came downstairs just as he was coming up. There had been no one to greet him. He was told by the butler that Mrs.
The only moment of regret that he suffered was when one day, when things first began to look badly, he met Linburne and another man in Wall Street, and there was something subtly insulting and triumphant in the former's manner of condoling with him about the situation. Rumors of it reached Christine. She liked the picture of Riatt's courage and calm, and hated the danger of his losing money.
Riatt noticed that in spite of these chilling sentences, Fenimer was soon composing a paragraph for the press, and advocating the setting of the date for the wedding early in April, as he himself was booked for a fishing-trip later. He did this under the assumption that he was yielding to Riatt's irresistible eagerness. "You have an excellent advocate in Christine. My daughter has always ruled me.
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