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He was as calm as if he had been making small talk at a theater-party. "Can you plan it so so carelessly, like that?" she asked. "Why not? I could hardly allow him to take you by force. I wouldn't choose a fight as a diversion, but once in, I wouldn't stop short of his life. And I wouldn't feel any compunction afterward, either." "Well," she said quickly, "it won't be necessary." "I think not."
Mansfield was speaking of the endeavor of certain Londoners to raise the theater out of the rut into which it had fallen, and to make of it something worthy to claim the attention of those who did not use it merely for digestive purposes. She related a story of a disastrous theater-party which she had once joined, and which had been arranged by an aspiring woman with little sense of fitness.
He glanced down at her sideways. She was wearing a moleskin coat with a deep collar of silver-fox. She had on a moleskin hat, close fitting to her glossy head. Her face was partly hidden by a smart veil. She was immaculate as ever as composed and stylish as if she were going to a theater-party instead of on an all-night ride to London.
The crew were also given shore-leave for the evening, but as the great heat had upset me I declined to accompany the theater-party, and remained on board with one sailor named Wilson to constitute the watch. We had anchored about half a mile from land, and earlier in the evening the Baron had gone ashore to send telegrams to Russia, and had not returned.
Elkins as the best practical joke he had ever heard of; and Cornish suggested that for a man to stop in Homeric laughter on Broadway might be pleasant for him, but was embarrassing to his companions. By this time Cornish himself was better-natured. Jim took charge of our movements, and commanded us to a dinner with him, in the nature of a celebration, with a theater-party afterward.
"I'm a busy man," said I. "You must make my excuses to your wife. But in the evenings. Couldn't we get up a little theater-party Mrs. Ellersly and your daughter and you and I Sam, too, if he cares to come?" "Delightful!" cried he. "Whichever one of the next five evenings you say," I said. "Let me know by to-morrow morning, will you?"
"Why, yes," she said, suddenly; "I believe that Miss Hargrave was to have superintended them herself. We all went out into the kitchen. But it was too late. They had been prepared already." "You were all in the kitchen?" "Yes; I remember. It was before the supper and just after we came in from the theater-party which Mr. Mansfield gave. You know Mr.
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