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She failed to observe his gesture, so absorbed were all her faculties in the maze of facts in which she was somewhat helplessly struggling. "Could Searle have written such a letter as that?" she said. "What for?" "For money if he wrote it," said Glen. "Did he touch you for a loan?" Beth's eyes were widely blazing. Her lips were white and stiff.
The omnivorous Lady Charlotte of course had made acquaintance with him in the Leyburns' drawing-room, as she did with everybody who crossed her path, and three days before he had received a card from her for this evening. 'Oh yes! But I have had to miss a rehearsal this afternoon. That concert at Searle House is becoming a great nuisance. 'It will be a brilliant affair, I suppose.
Searle will stop here; he has done double the work that we have. His friends can do as they like. Naturally we shall be glad to have them with us, but that is as they choose." "Of course we will go with you," one of the colonists said. "Thank you! At any rate two of you had better stop with Mr. Searle. There are the wounded Boers to look after.
My first movement I can smile at it now was to spring to the door, close it quickly and turn the key upon the gaping blackness from which Searle had emerged. I seized his two hands; they were wet with perspiration. I pushed my chair to the fire and forced him to sit down in it; then I got on my knees and held his hands as firmly as possible.
She thought she saw him top the ridge, but he disappeared from sight. The darkness was gathering swiftly in all the desert world. The girl's excitement and impatience grew with a new flare up of energy. To think that Searle was so near at hand, with fate a-hover in the air, sent her pulses bounding madly. It seemed as if Pratt would never return from the hill.
"I promise," she said, and moved away across the long room and out of the door. "You're in time to hear the most delightful story," Searle began to me as I rejoined him and his host. They were standing before an old sombre portrait of a lady in the dress of Queen Anne's time, whose ill-painted flesh-tints showed livid, in the candle-light, against her dark drapery and background. "This is Mrs.
I told Captain Searle what Captain Hawk had said. "That does not matter," he answered. "He cannot do me more harm than he already seeks to do; so I do not fear him." I was now pretty well convinced of the honesty of Captain Searle; but to assure myself still further, I called on two or three ship-brokers, who all assured me that his ship was a regular trader, and gave a favourable report of him.
Simmons set down his empty tankard with emphasis. "You poor morbid mooning man," he resumed, "I don't want to say anything to make you feel sore. I regularly pity you. But you must allow that you've acted more like a confirmed crank than a member of our best society in which every one's so sensible." Mr. Searle seemed to have made an effort to compose himself.
One of them said there would be no difficulty about a night's lodging for our boats; and the other, taking a cigarette from his lips, inquired if they were made by Searle and Son. The name was quite an introduction. Half-a- dozen other young men came out of a boat-house bearing the superscription ROYAL SPORT NAUTIQUE, and joined in the talk.
There was a pause; after which: "You're the same merry old boy, Searle. Going to give up the ghost to-morrow, eh?" "I almost wish I were." "You're not so sweet on England then? I've heard people say at home that you dress and talk and act like an Englishman. But I know these people here and I know you. You're not one of this crowd, Clement Searle, not you.
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