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He had been watching; and nothing, not a murmur, or a furtive snigger, not the quiver of an eyelash, had escaped him. And consider what it meant to him. In a furious climax of expenditure he had achieved the arresting spectacle of his house in Mayfair, and his first night, his house-warming, was turning under his eyes into a triumph for the Thesigers' manners and a failure for him.
What we saw, or thought we saw, was the revolt of his egoism. It didn't look quite sane. He was furious when he found out that, even if he enlisted, he couldn't buy a commission. He didn't seem to realize that there were things he couldn't buy. He was still more furious when he found that the Thesigers wouldn't help him. They could help him, he declared, if they liked.
I remember perfectly everything that Jevons said to me that night. I am putting it all down so that it may be clear that what the Thesigers called the beauty of my behaviour was nothing to the beauty of his. Think of him, shut up there in his hotel in Bruges, giving me my innings, when he could have struck in and won the game without waiting those horrible ten days.
People asked each other: Was it likely that the Thesigers would receive young Furnival with open arms if young Furnival had been the man they'd heard about? At the end of my week the whole seven of them were almost merry. At the end of ten days my relations with Canon and Mrs. Thesiger became so intimate that we could discuss the situation.
"That is a new name," I said to mademoiselle. When she took the card from my hand and saw it, a dark look came over her face; I saw her lips close more firmly. "Have you not heard of the Thesigers? I thought every one knew Sir John. They live at Harden Manor, about five miles from here." "Are they old friends of the family?" I asked. Again the darkening look and the tightening lips.
At Lancaster Gate he was received coldly in accordance with the discreet policy by which the Thesigers had avoided the appearances of scandal. Down at Canterbury there were degrees and shades of recognition. Norah openly loved him. The Canon had what he called "a morbid liking for the fellow." Mildred and Victoria tolerated him. Millicent endured him as an infliction. Mrs.
Either you wouldn't have proposed to her at all, or you'd have proposed three times running when it was too late." I pointed out to him that I hadn't proposed three times running, neither was I too late. "All the same," he said, "you wouldn't have thought of it if she hadn't gone to the Thesigers. And she wouldn't have gone to the Thesigers if Viola hadn't got the Thesigers to ask her.
Besides and this was the pathetic part of it he had an irrepressible affection for the Canterbury Thesigers, and it hungered and thirsted for recognition. It nourished itself in secret on any scraps that came its way. He met tolerance with grace, and any sort of kindness with passionate gratitude. I think he would have broken his neck to give Norah or the Canon or even Mrs.
And before that, all the time, there had been his work, which I am always forgetting, and his fame, when he didn't forget it. But there had always been something. At first it had been the Thesigers. As long as Mrs. Thesiger as long as one Thesiger held out against him he had felt defeat. And then there had been Reggie's return and his appalling doubt.
He had no illusions. Unless he did something to stop it, the whole thing would be one enormous and lamentable and expensive failure. He had to do something. And he did it. He left off his uneasy swagger and his rocking. He met the heroic and beautiful faces of the Thesigers with his engaging twinkle.
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