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Septimus took off his cap and brought his hair to its normal perpendicularity. Emmy laughed. "Dear me! What are you going to say?" Septimus reflected for a moment. "If I dine off a bloater in a soup-plate in the drawing-room, or if my bed isn't made at six o'clock in the evening, and my house is a cross between a pigsty and an ironmonger's shop, nobody minds.
It is only Septimus Dix's extraordinary habits. But if the woman who is my wife in the eyes of the world " "Yes, yes, I see," she said hurriedly. "I hadn't looked at it in that light." "The boy is going to Cambridge," he murmured. "Then I should like him to go into Parliament. There are deuced clever fellows in Parliament. I met one in Venice two or three years ago. He knew an awful lot of things.
Dudley Sowerby's attention to him, in elucidating the scenes with historical scraps, greatly pleased her. The Rev. Septimus of course occupied her chiefly. Mademoiselle was always near, to receive his repeated expressions of gratitude for the route she had counselled.
Septimus Lingard's diary for the year preceding, which he had got hold of, not his private diary, but the entirely public official diary in which he kept account of the division of his days among his various clients for the most part an unexciting record.
Septimus remembered how this bit of unauthenticated history was greeted with derision by the general, and with a shocked sense of propriety by the cultivated and young men at the university can be very cultivated indeed on occasion. But the truth the great preacher intended to convey had lingered at the back of his own mind and now came out into the light.
He was sorry, very sorry for Septimus Dix. His kindness of heart had not allowed him to tell the brutal truth about the guns. The naval expert had scoffed in the free manner of those who follow the sea and declared the great guns a mad inventor's dream. The Admiralty was overwhelmed with such things. The proofs were so much waste paper.
It was the height of the Monte Carlo season and the feathers and diamonds and rouge and greedy eyes and rusty bonnets of all nations confused the sight and paralyzed thought. Yet among all the women of both worlds Zora Middlemist stood out remarkable. As Septimus Dix afterwards explained, the rooms that evening contained a vague kind of conglomerate woman and Zora Middlemist.
The smeary, red-gold paint which hides the imperfect ironwork of its elevators does not hide the fact that they groan like lost souls, and tremble and jerk and threaten to fall. The Septimus Building is typical of at least one half of a large city. It was "run up" by a speculative builder for a "quick turn-over." It is semi-fire-proof, but more semi than fire-proof.
She was really a charming woman! He enlarged upon her frock afterwards to Aunt Juley, who held up her hands at his way of putting it. Fitted her like a skin tight as a drum; that was how he liked 'em, all of a piece, none of your daverdy, scarecrow women! He gazed at Mrs. Septimus Small, who took after James long and thin. "There's style about her," he went on, "fit for a king!
Septimus Small, drawing herself up with a creak and rustle of her whole person, said, shivering in her dignity: "My dear, it is a subject we do not talk about!" Although with her infallible instinct Mrs. Small had said the very thing to make her guest 'more intriguee than ever, it is difficult to see how else she could truthfully have spoken.
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