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"I suppose you were at Baden and saw it all, and I wasn't!" said Rickmansworth, with ponderous satire. "So we won't say any more about it." "Well, what do you mean?" "No; never mind! It doesn't matter all a mistake. I'm always making some beastly blunder eh, Bob?" and he winked gently at his appreciative brother. "Yes, you're an ass, of course!" said Bob, entering into the family humor.
He was growing from day to day less patient of Claudia's invisibility, and he expressed his feeling very plainly one day to Rickmansworth, whom he happened to encounter in the outer lobby, as the noble lord was finding his way to the unwonted haunt of the House of Lords, thereto attracted by a debate on the proper precautions it behooved the nation to take against pleuro-pneumonia.
Pursuing his train of thought, Rickmansworth went on: "Must have been rather a queer game at Millstead?" "Yes. There was Eugene and Kate, and Claudia and the parson, and old Ayre sticking his long nose into it." "Trust old Ayre for that; and is it a case?" "Well, now Kate's out of it, I expect it is, only you don't know where to have Eugene. And there's the parson."
"I thought I should bring him!" exclaimed Lord Rickmansworth triumphantly, as he received his friend on the platform, and conducted him to a very perfect drag which stood at the door. "Oh, you old thief!"
Without altogether neglecting the other claims at which Rickmansworth had hinted, and which resolved themselves into a long-standing and entirely platonic attachment, he yet devoted himself with zest and assiduity to his self-imposed task. In its prosecution he contrived to make use of Rickmansworth to some extent. The young man was a hospitable soul, delighting in parties and picnics.
Stafford must try his luck, if he likes. Don't you fellows bother about him. I'll see him when he comes down." "Would it be infernally uncivil if we happened to be out in the tandem!" suggested Rickmansworth. "I expect he'd be rather glad." "Then we will be out in the tandem. If you kill him, or the other way, just do it outside, will you, so as not to make a mess?
"Surprising," he said, "what interesting subjects the old buffers get hold of now and then! Come and hear 'em, old man." "The Lord forbid!" said Eugene. "But I want to say a word to you, Rick, about Claudia. I can't stand this much longer." "I wouldn't," said Rickmansworth, "if I were you; but it isn't my fault." "It's absurd treating me like this because of Stafford's affair."
It's enough work to prevent one's self getting married, without troubling about other people. But I rather like you telling me not to bet on it!" "She wouldn't suit Eugene." "No; lead him the devil of a life." "She don't care for him." "Not a straw." "Then, why don't she break it off?" "Ah, you innocent?" said Rickmansworth, with a broad grin.
Over and above the particular pleasures for whose sake he had come to Baden, he relished intensely the new attitude in which he found himself standing toward Ayre. Throughout their previous acquaintance it had been Rickmansworth who was eager and excited, Ayre who applied the cold water.
I thought it would make it safer for you." "Well, we are " said Olivia, and she laughed. Then of a sudden her eyes sparkled and she cried: "But if you heard him snore at half-past eleven that lets the mysterious woman out. She went away at a quarter-past." "By Jove! so it does," said Grey. Three days later, driving back in the evening from Rickmansworth to Low Wycombe, Mr.
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