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Hamilton," replied Sir Terence mechanically for his own concerns weighed upon him at this moment more heavily than the French advance. He pulled the bell-rope, and into the fatherly hands of Mullins, who came in response to the summons, the young officer was delivered. Lord Wellington took up his hat and riding-crop from Sir Terence's desk. "I shall leave for the frontier at once," he announced.
"Yes, is it much?" He stared, then with a shrug: "You'd better cut out that sort of thing." "What?" she asked, surprised. "What you're doing." "Tasting your Scotch? Pooh!" she said, "it isn't strong. Do you think I'm a baby?" "Go ahead," he said, "it's your funeral." Legs crossed, chin resting on the butt of his riding-crop, he lay back in his chair watching her.
He had never entered it since their marriage; he did not care to do so now, though the door stood wide. And, indifferent, he turned without even a glance, and traversing the hall, descended the stairs to the library. For a while he sat there, legs crossed, drumming thoughtfully on his boot with his riding-crop; and after a while he dragged the chair forward and picked up a pen.
My sister is older, but I don't mind going first even if it is bad manners." "Is that why you have never asked me to marry you?" she said, white as a ghost. Startled to silence he walked on beside her. She had pressed her pallid face against his shoulder again; one thin hand crushed her gloves and riding-crop into her hip, the other, doubled, left in the palm pale imprints of her fingers.
Opposite her stood a brutal, heavy-faced, red-moustached young man, his gaitered legs parted wide, one arm akimbo, the other waving a riding-crop, his whole attitude suggestive of triumphant bravado.
She played a good deal with the riding-crop during the evening, and now and then she went outside the door and took a look at the weird, shroud-like shape, there in the light of the window. Once she stepped up to it and pushed the riding-crop in, to its full length, just to make sure that there was nothing under the snow. After that she took the riding-crop in and dried it carefully on a towel.
She swung her riding-crop in a circle and laughed, showing her perfect teeth. "But where is that faithful attendant cavalier of yours this morning? Is he so grossly material that he prefers Wall Street, as does my good lord and master?" "Do you mean Gerald?" asked Eileen innocently, "or Captain Selwyn?"
He had forgotten to leave his hat and gloves in the hall. He now tossed them into a chair Helen's own particular chair it so happened but kept his riding-crop in his hand, and thwacked his leather gaiters with it, as he stood in the bay window. It was such a perfect spring morning! The sun shone in through the old-fashioned lattice panes.
Under this staircase was set a stand full of walking-sticks, and a table littered with gloves, brushes, a hand-bell, a riding-crop, one or two dog-whistles, and a bedroom candle, with tinder-box beside it. This, with one notable exception, was all the furniture. The exception which turned me cold was the form of a yellow mastiff dog, curled on a mat beneath the table.
"Did you suppose it was for his fortune that " She paused and said humbly, "Of course, it's natural that you should think that of me." Arnold attempted no self-exculpation. He sat down by her, his riding-crop across his knees. "Could you do you feel like telling me about it?" he asked. She nodded.
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