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"Spirit!" said Harold, who all this while had been reclining in his invalid chair, apparently reading a review. Mrs Devitt looked up, as if surprised. "After all, everything depends on the point of view," remarked Miss Spraggs. "Is there any more?" asked Harold.
For Pet being well up in his favorite tree poring with great wonder over Lyrical Ballads, which took his fancy somehow thence descried the hateful form of Dr. Spraggs, too surely approaching in the seat of honor of the jumping-car. Was ever any poesy of such power as to elevate the soul above the smell of physic?
The tessellated floors, the plush parlours and organ-like radiators of the Mealey House had, aside from their intrinsic elegance, the immense advantage of lifting the Spraggs high above the Frusks, and making it possible for Undine, when she met Indiana in the street or at school, to chill her advances by a careless allusion to the splendours of hotel life.
The Spraggs were intensely proud of their grandson, and Ralph perceived that they would have liked to see Paul charging uproariously from group to group, and thrusting his bright curls and cherubic smile upon the general attention. The fact that the boy preferred to stand between his grandfather's knees and play with Mr. Spragg's Masonic emblem, or dangle his legs from the arm of Mrs.
"There's an admirable article about Carlyle in the same number of the National Review," said Miss Spraggs presently. "I never read anything about Carlyle," declared Mrs Devitt. Miss Spraggs raised her straight eyebrows. "He didn't get on with his wife," said Mrs Devitt, in a manner suggesting that this fact effectually disposed in advance of any arguments Miss Spraggs might offer.
"My dear Hilda, is there anything I don't notice?" Miss Spraggs had replied, a remark which was untrue in its present application, as, at the moment when Mavis had taken Jill's part, Eva Spraggs had been looking out of the window, as she wondered if the peas, that were to accompany a roast duckling at luncheon, would be as hard and as unappetising as they had been when served two days previously.
"I'd have broken off the marriage, even at the last moment, for Charles's share in it, but for the terrible scandal which would have been caused." "Well, well; it's all over and done with now," sighed Devitt. "I'm not so sure; one never knows what an abandoned girl, as Miss Keeves has proved herself to be, is capable of!" "True!" remarked Miss Spraggs. "Come! come!" said Devitt.
"What!" cried the two women. "I believe he'd give his eyes to get her," the man continued. "He's only to ask," snapped Miss Spraggs. "Anyway, we shall see," said Devitt. "Should that happen, I trust you will never wish me to invite her to the house," said Mrs Devitt, rising to her full height. "It's all very sad," remarked Devitt gloomily.
He is certainly making progress; but I assure you, my dear madam, or rather I need not tell a lady of such wonderfully clear perception, that remedial measures must be slow to be truly efficacious. With lower organizations we may deal in a more empiric style; but no experiments must be tried here " "Dr. Spraggs, I should hope not, indeed. You alarm me by the mere suggestion."
I say, is that your own?" guffawed Devitt from his place on the hearthrug. "Why shouldn't it be?" asked Miss Spraggs demurely. "Anyway," continued Mrs Devitt impatiently, "she wishes to know if I am in want of a companion, or anything of that sort, as she has a teacher she is unable to keep owing to her school having fallen on bad times."
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