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Scobell had founded Peaceful Moments at an early stage in his career, and it was only at very rare intervals nowadays that he recollected that he still owned it. He had so many irons in the fire now that he had no time to waste his brain tissues thinking about a paper like Peaceful Moments. It was one of his failures.
And theft there is counted no great crime at all. Thence to Mr. Rawlinson's, having met my old friend Dick Scobell, and there I drank a great deal with him, and so home and to bed betimes, my head aching. 9th. To my Lord's with Mr. Blackburne. To whom I did make known my fears of Will's losing of his time, which he will take care to give him good advice about. Afterwards to my Lord's and Mr.
"Miss Silver and I had met before, in America, when I was in college." Mr. Scobell slapped his thigh joyously. "Gee, it's all working out like a fiction story in the magazines!" "Is it?" said John. "How? And, for the matter of that, what?" Mr. Scobell answered question with question. "Say, Prince, you and Betty were pretty good friends in the old days, I guess?" John looked at him coldly.
The other seemed to miss something in his voice. "You have heard of Mr. Scobell?" he asked. "Not to my knowledge," said John. "Ah! you have lost touch very much with Mervo, of course." John stared. "Mervo?" It sounded like some patent medicine. "I have been instructed," said Mr.
Even to himself the words, as he spoke them, sounded bald and meaningless. To Betty, shaken by her encounter with Mr. Scobell, they sounded artificial, as if he were forcing himself to repeat a lesson. They jarred upon her. "Don't!" she said sharply. "Oh, don't!" Her voice stabbed him. It could not have stirred him more if she had uttered a cry of physical pain. "Don't! I know. I've been told."
Scobell did not read poetry except that which advertised certain breakfast foods in which he was interested, or he might have been reminded of the Island of Flowers in Tennyson's "Voyage of Maeldive." Violets, pinks, crocuses, yellow and purple mesembryanthemum, lavender, myrtle, and rosemary ... his two-mile view contained them all.
"Cut out any fool notions about romance." Miss Scobell, who was knitting a sock, checked her needles for a moment in order to sigh. Her brother eyed her morosely, then resumed his remarks. "This is a matter of state. That's it. You gotta cut out fool notions and act for good of state. You gotta look at it in the proper spirit. Great honor see what I mean? Princess and all that.
Chance of a lifetime dynasty you gotta look at it that way." Miss Scobell heaved another sigh, and dropped a stitch. "For the love of Mike," said her brother, irritably, "don't snort like that, Marion." "Very well, dear." Betty had not taken her eyes off him from his first word.
He did not want a cheerful young man in a soft hat and a flannel suit who looked as if at any moment he might burst into a college yell. General Poineau, meanwhile, had embarked on the address of welcome. John regarded him thoughtfully. "I can see," he said to Mr. Scobell, "that the gentleman is making a good speech, but what is he saying? That is what gets past me."
She would not go back. She could not. The words she had used in her letter to Mr. Scobell were no melodramatic rhetoric. They were a plain and literal statement of the truth. Death would be infinitely preferable to life at Mervo on her stepfather's conditions. But, that settled, what then? What was she to do? The gods are businesslike. They sell; they do not give.
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