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Updated: May 14, 2025
"Why, you look radiant. You are more beautiful than you were at Sutcliffe. Is it marriage?" Honora laughed happily, and they sat down side by side on the lounge behind the tea table. "I heard you'd married," said Ethel, "but I didn't know what had become of you until the other day. Jim never tells me anything. It appears that he's seen something of you.
But half a score of statesmen, all of one mind! One must accept their verdict." Mary smiled. "But why shouldn't the good newspaper proprietor hurry up and become a multi-proprietor?" she suggested. "Why don't you persuade Lord Sutcliffe to buy up three or four papers, before they're all gone?" "Because I don't want the Devil to get hold of him," answered Greyson.
Sutcliffe had given her; a light blue row for the Thomas Hardys; a dark blue for the George Merediths; royal blue and gold for the Rudyard Kiplings. And in the narrow upright bookcase in the arm of the T facing her writing-table, Mark's books: the Homers and the Greek dramatists. Their backs had faded from puce colour to drab. Mark's books.
Pure funk. You wanted to dance you wanted to so badly that it frightened you." His arm tightened. As they passed she could see Mrs. Sutcliffe sitting in an arm-chair pushed back out of the dancers' way. She looked tired and bored and a little anxious. When the last three dances were over he took her back to Mark. Mark scowled after Mr. Sutcliffe. "What does he look at you like that for?"
Sutcliffe," he said, "is very kind." She saw it now. He had been at the Sutcliffes that evening. He had seen Papa. He was trying to say, "Your father was drunk at Greffington Hall. He will never be asked there again. He will not be particularly welcome at the Vicarage. But you are very young. We do not wish you to suffer. This is our kindness to you. Take it. You are not in a position to refuse."
"And where do you come from, if I may ask?" he said. "St. Louis. I was brought to this country before I was two years old, from France. Mrs. Holt brought me. And I have never been out of St. Louis since, except to go to Sutcliffe. There you have my history. Mrs. Holt would probably have told it to you, if I hadn't." "And Mrs. Holt brought you to this country?"
On this occasion he was assailed by a fire of eager whispers from every door: 'Sutcliffe, hi! old Sutty, how is she? but he did not seem to hear, until a cry louder than the rest brought him to our room. 'For God's sake, gentlemen, don't! he said, in a hoarse whisper, as he turned out the light; 'they'll hear you downstairs. 'But how is she? do you know better? 'Ay, he said, 'she's better.
Lord Sutcliffe had died suddenly and his holding in the Evening Gazette had passed to his nephew, a gentleman more interested in big game shooting than in politics. Greyson's support of Phillips had brought him within the net of Carleton's operations, and negotiations for purchase had already been commenced.
Dick had just about succeeded in putting to flight the worthy chief mate's feeling of awkwardness and embarrassment when Grosvenor appeared and joined the pair, whereupon Sutcliffe, who was rather shy with the passengers, sheered off, upon the pretence of attending to his duty, and left the two together. "By Jove, Doctor, but this is a grand sight, isn't it?" exclaimed Dick's recent patient.
Sutcliffe had wanted the last dance, the polka; but she couldn't give it him. She didn't want to dance with anybody after Mark. The big, long dining-room was cleared; the floor waxed. People had come from Reyburn and Durlingham. A hollow square of faces. Faces round the walls. Painted faces hanging above them: Mr. Sutcliffe's ancestors looking at you.
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