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'Yes, I can see that, Sidwell replied, thoughtfully. 'And perhaps it also represents the triumphant forces of our time. He looked keenly at her, with a smile of delight. 'That also! The power which centres in the world's money-markets plutocracy. In conversing with Sidwell, he had never before found an opportunity of uttering his vehement prejudices.
'Oh, if I am not permitted to speak to you! I only hope you won't have occasion to remember my warning! Such extraordinary behaviour was surely never known! I should have thought' Sidwell was by this time out of the room. Safe in privacy she sat down as if to pen a letter.
But twenty-seven drew perilously near to thirty; no, no, Sidwell could not be more than twenty-five. Her eyes still had the dewy freshness of flowering maidenhood; her cheek, her throat, were so exquisitely young In how divine a calm must this girl have lived to show, even at five-and-twenty, features as little marked by inward perturbation as those of an infant!
Doubtless she had learned as much as she needed to know of Sidwell's position. Refusing this bequest, he was as far as ever from the possibility of asking Sidwell to marry him. Profiting by it, he stood for ever indebted to Marcella, must needs be grateful to her, and some day, assuredly, would reveal the truth to whatever woman became his wife.
Sidwell, repelled and in a measure alarmed by his bilious countenance, could do no more than grant him her delicately gloved fingers. Peak, for his part, had nothing to say. He did not even affect an interest in these persons, and turned his eyes to follow the withdrawing Earwaker. Mr.
'I think there is a great difference between her position and yours. 'Because she is hypocritical! cried Buckland, angrily. 'She deceives you. She hasn't the courage to be honest. Sidwell wore a pained expression. 'You judge her, she replied, 'far too coarsely. No one is called upon to make an elaborate declaration of faith as often as such subjects are spoken of.
Will this do instead?" and he produced a half-dollar. The boy brought the car deftly to a stop within a half-inch of the level of the desired floor. "Thank you. Mr. Sidwell straight ahead, and turn to the left down the short hall," he said obligingly. Blair stepped out, saying, "Don't fail to be around to-morrow when I do my stunt."
Sidwell saw herself doomed to a night of suspense. She could not confess how nearly the mystery concerned her. Had Buckland made some discovery that irritated him against Peak? She knew he was disposed to catch at anything that seemed to tell against Godwin's claims to respectful treatment, and it surely must be a grave affair to hurry him on so long a journey.
Sidwell and her mother exchanged a look of courageous hope; each felt convinced that the genial Professor could not so far disregard private feeling as to place Buckland anywhere but at the head of the class. 'The results of the examination are fairly good; I'm afraid I can't say more than that, thus rang out Mr. Gale's hearty voice.
And how much sounder his judgment of men would be if he could only see through a medium of humour now and then! You know he is going over to Budleigh Salterton this afternoon? Sidwell smiled, and said quietly: 'I thought it likely he would. At Budleigh Salterton, a nook on the coast some fifteen miles away, Sylvia Moorhouse was now dwelling.
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