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Luna sprang up again, almost snatching the memoranda out of his hand. "If you have the impertinence to publish a word about me, or to mention my name in print, I will come to your office and make such a scene!" "Dearest lady, that would be a godsend!" Mr. Pardon cried enthusiastically; but he put his notebook back into his pocket. "Have you made an exhaustive search for Miss Tarrant?"
Tarrant; she had been over all that with Verena, who had told her that her mother was willing to sacrifice her for her highest good. Tarrant had embraced, tenderly, the idea of a pecuniary compensation, and there was no fear of her making a scene when Tarrant should come back with a cheque in his pocket.
To make amends for the reproach he had uttered in spite of himself, Tarrant began to relate in full the events of his ordinary day. 'I get my own breakfast the only meal I have at home. Look, here's the kitchen, queer old place. And here's the dining-room. Cupboards everywhere, you see; we boast of our cupboards. The green paint is de rigueur; duck's egg colour; I've got to like it.
Tarrant thought to himself that in her too, a very short time had made a very notable change; he tried to read its significance, but could reach no certainty. 'I'm sorry to hear all this very sorry. You must tell me more about your father. Take off your hat, dear, and your gloves. Her gloves she removed first, and laid them on her lap; Tarrant took them away.
Slippers also she brought him, and would have unlaced his muddy boots had Tarrant permitted it. When he presented a picture of masculine comfort, Nancy, sitting opposite, cautiously approached a subject of which as yet there had been no word between them. 'Oughtn't you to get more comfortable lodgings? 'Oh, I do very well. I'm accustomed to the place, and I like the situation.
Tarrant half carried her up to his room, made a light, and fell to his knees at fire-building. 'Let me do it, Nancy exclaimed. 'Let me wait upon you 'If you don't sit still and keep quiet, you'll make me angry in earnest. 'Then you're not really angry with me? I couldn't help it. 'No, I'm afraid you couldn't, Tarrant muttered cheerlessly. 'I wanted to tell you that Mary will be our friend.
And he put the question aside as if it were of no importance. They passed the old gate, and breathed with relief in the never-broken shadow of tangled foliage. Whilst pushing a bramble aside, Tarrant let his free arm fall lightly on Nancy's waist. At once she sprang forward, but without appearing to notice what had happened. 'Stay did you ever see such ivy as this?
The record aeroplane as regards size at the time of its construction was the Tarrant triplane, which made its first and last flight on May 28th, 1919.
He took them all in, for they represented to him certain very interesting facts; but he perceived at the same time that Mrs. Luna didn't know what she was talking about. He had seen Verena Tarrant only twice in his life, but it was no use telling him that she was an adventuress though, certainly, it was very likely she would end by giving Miss Chancellor a cut.
"Gracious me!" cried Verena Tarrant; and the gay vibration of her voice as she uttered this simple ejaculation was the last that Ransom heard of her. Miss Chancellor swept her out of the room, leaving the young man to extract a relish from the ineffable irony with which she uttered the words "even a woman."
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