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"You ought to see how she throws herself into them. She is sure it will all work round for your good." "All what, Miss Tarrant?" Ransom asked. "Well, what I told her.
Luna listened to this candid account of the young man's proceedings with her head turned a little over her shoulder at him, and her eyes fixed as unsympathetically as possible upon his own. "What you propose, then, as I understand it," she said in a moment, "is that I should betray my sister to you." "Worse than that; I propose that you should betray Miss Tarrant herself."
I think Duperré was, after all, a sportsman, even though he was a practiced crook, for on that night he and his wife allowed me to be alone with Lola. "Do you know a friend of your father, an old man named Tarrant?" I asked her suddenly. "Tarrant Morley Tarrant?" she asked. "Oh! yes. He's such a funny old fellow.
His portentous solemnity overcame her. Laughter lighted her face, and Tarrant, laying down his pipe, shouted extravagant mirth. 'Am I to burn it then? 'You are not. You are to seal it with seven seals, to write upon it peche de jeunesse, and to lay it away at the back of a very private drawer.
He had seen Tarrant, or his equivalent, often before; he had "whipped" him, as he believed, controversially, again and again, at political meetings in blighted Southern towns, during the horrible period of reconstruction. If Mrs. Farrinder had looked at Verena Tarrant as if she were a mountebank, there was some excuse for it, inasmuch as the girl made much the same impression on Basil Ransom.
"No, I felt very blue; it didn't seem to me at all clear that there was a place for me in the world." "Gracious!" said Verena Tarrant. She stopped her on her way, and said she hoped she hadn't pushed Mr. Ransom overboard. "Oh no; he has gone off round the other way." "Well, I hope he is going to speak for us soon." Verena hesitated a moment. "He speaks with the pen.
Of the dealings between Nancy and her legal guardians Tarrant learned nothing, save the bare fact that her marriage was avowed, and all benefit under her father's will renounced. He did not visit the house at Dulwich, and only saw his child after the removal to Harrow.
He was used to quick operations, however, and he had only a moment of bright blankness before replying: "Oh, there is nothing I wouldn't do for the ladies; just give me a chance and you'll see." Olive was silent a moment. "What I mean is is your sympathy a sympathy with our sex, or a particular interest in Miss Tarrant?" "Well, sympathy is just sympathy that's all I can say.
"It's the most horrible, wicked, immoral selfishness I ever heard in my life!" roared Mrs. Tarrant. "Selfishness! Mrs. Tarrant, do you suppose I pretend not to be selfish?" "Do you want us all murdered by the mob, then?" "They can have their money can't you give them back their money?" cried Verena, turning frantically round the circle.
"I will just wait here, with your permission," said Ransom, "and presently I shall be called." "Who do you s'pose will call you?" "Well, Miss Tarrant, I hope." "She'll have to square the other one first."
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