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He clasped his hands and turned aside his face. "Judas!" flashed through Lilly's mind. Again Tanny looked for her husband's answer. "Yes, Rawdon," she said. "You can't say the things you do without their having an effect. You really ask for it, you know." "It's no matter." Lilly squeezed the words out coldly. "He wanted to do it, and he did it." A dead silence ensued now.
He spoke the last words with sudden ferocity and desperation. "All I know is," said Tanny, "you don't look it." "I AM. I am." Jim protested. "I'm dying. Life's leaving me." "Maybe you're choking with love," said Robert. "Perhaps you have breathed in so much, you don't know how to let it go again. Perhaps your soul's got a crick in it, with expanding so much."
"You'll come to Rackham?" said Jim, leaning out of the train. "We should love to," called Tanny, after the receding train. "All right," said Lilly, non-committal. But he and his wife never saw Jim again. Lilly never intended to see him: a devil sat in the little man's breast. "You shouldn't play at little Jesus, coming so near to people, wanting to help them," was Tanny's last word.
Then Tanny managed to get ahead with Jim, sticking to his side and talking sympathetic personalities. But Lilly, feeling it from afar, ran after them and caught them up. They were silent. "What was the interesting topic?" he said cuttingly. "Nothing at all!" said Tanny, nettled. "Why must you interfere?" "Because I intend to," said Lilly. And the two others fell apart, as if severed with a knife.
Tanny looked at Lilly, puzzled, bewildered, but still rather pleased, as if she demanded an answer. None being forthcoming, she said: "Of course, you mustn't expect to say all those things without rousing a man." Still Lilly did not answer. Jim glanced at him, then looked at Tanny. "It isn't that I don't like him," he said, slowly. "I like him better than any man I've ever known, I believe."
"Tanny may hear of it and be anxious." Aaron was quite dumbfounded by the night's event: the loss of his flute. Here was a blow he had not expected. And the loss was for him symbolistic. It chimed with something in his soul: the bomb, the smashed flute, the end. "There goes Aaron's Rod, then," he said to Lilly. "It'll grow again.
"Why FAULT!" he said, looking at her coldly. "What is there to talk about?" "Usually there's so much," she said sarcastically. A few phrases dribbled out of the silence. In vain Jim, tried to get Lilly to thaw, and in vain Tanny gave her digs at her husband. Lilly's stiff, inscrutable face did not change, he was polite and aloof. So they all went to bed.
I don't mean someone at all. I mean love love love. I sacrifice myself to love. I reckon that's the highest man is capable of." "But you can't sacrifice yourself to an abstract principle," said Tanny. "That's just what you can do. And that's the beauty of it. Who represents the principle doesn't matter. Christ is the principle of love," said Jim. "But no!" said Tanny. "It MUST be more individual.
"It might be AWFULLY nice," said Tanny rapturously. "Yes! It might! It might !" pondered Julia. Suddenly she gave herself a shake. Then she laughed hurriedly, as if breaking from her line of thought. "And wouldn't Robert be an AWFULLY nice lover for Josephine! Oh, wouldn't that be splendid!" she cried, with her high laugh.
"All right. Julia's gone with Cyril Scott. Can't stand that fellow, can you? What?" "Yes, I think he's rather nice," said Tanny. "What will Robert do?" "Have a shot at Josephine, apparently." "Really? Is he in love with her? I thought so. And she likes him too, doesn't she?" said Tanny. "Very likely," said Jim. "I suppose you're jealous," laughed Tanny. "Me!" Jim shook his head. "Not a bit.
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