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"How are things down your way?" pursued Southend, addressing Iver. "Lady Tristram's very ill, I hear?" "I'm afraid so." "Wonderful woman that, you know. You ought to have seen her in the seventies when she ran away with Randolph Edge." A gentleman, two tables off, looked round. "Hush, Southend! That's his brother," whispered Mr Neeld. "Whose brother?" demanded Southend.
"That's the corner-stone," Southend agreed. "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" pursued Lady Flora. "But Diana was never a wife, if I remember." "Though how they do it, my dear," marvelled Lady Evenswood, "is what I don't understand." "I know nothing about them," Lady Flora declared. "And they know nothing about me.
"Well, that's the only way, isn't it?" he asked. "Just at present, I suppose," Southend said to him in a low voice, as he shook hands. These few words, with the subdued hint they carried, reinforced the strength of the visions. Harry was rather full of his own will and proud of his own powers just now perhaps with some little excuse.
To do them justice, Englishmen seldom forget that allowances must be made for foreigners. Lord Southend explained gravely and patiently. "Well, let's go," said Mina indifferently. "Not that it seems much use," her manner added. "Excuse me a moment," said he, and he went out to soothe his wife's alarm and assure her that he was not tired.
All our old ladies are talking fifteen to the dozen about Harry Tristram, and Lady Tristram, and me, and my family, and well, I dare say you're in it by now, Southend! There's an old cat named Swinkerton, who is positively beyond human endurance; she waylays me in the street. And Mrs Trumbler, the vicar's wife, comes and talks about Providence to my poor wife every day. So I fled."
Later in the afternoon Southend dropped in at the Imperium, where to his surprise and pleasure he found Iver in the smoking-room. Asked how he came to be in town, Iver explained: "I really ran away from the cackling down at Blentmouth.
"Why," I asked myself, "do our people go to Ramsgate, Southend, Herne Bay, and even Scarborough, when there is such a splendid seaside place as this to come to?" Had a game of single-handed poker with one of the Trekkers, and beat him hollow. Not at first, of course, out of politeness; but at game No. 3 he was nowhere. Bless him, I knew a "trek" worth any three of his.
"As soon as ever Edge comes back, I shall draw his attention to the curry." Everybody else had rather lost their interest in the subject. Neeld and Harry were in conversation. Iver sat down by Southend, and, while lunch was preparing, endeavored to distract his mind by giving him a history of the morning. Southend too was concerned in Blinkhampton.
It was because I was afraid that I should be really ill that I went to Southend. The weather is hot, though of course the sun here is not as we have it. But the air is heavy, what Mrs Pipkin calls muggy. I was thinking if I were to go somewhere for a week, it would do me good. Where had I better go? Paul suggested Brighton. 'That is full of people; is it not? a fashionable place?
Soon several of the other children clustered round little Dan and began to fuss about him, and when they thrust sweets into his mouth he thought the fun excellent and crowed and laughed and flung his arms in the air. "The sea will do him a sight of good, the darling," said Netty, kissing him with rapture. Soon afterwards they reached Southend, and then the real pleasure of the day began.
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