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Updated: June 13, 2025
'He who fights and runs away will live to fight another day." I did not see how the proverb applied to me. "Do you mean the influenza?" I said. "That was scarcely my fault. My temperature was 104." "All the same," said Thormanby, "you didn't exactly stand up to her, did you?" I understood then that he was thinking about La-lage. "Nor did O'Donoghue," I said. "And Vittie really was shamming.
Lord Thormanby employed an Italian architect to build him a house. Sir Francis sought out the same architect and gave him orders to build another house, identical with Lord Thormanby's in design, but having each room two feet longer, two feet higher and two feet broader than the corresponding room at Thormanby Park.
His action gave me the impression that the letter was highly infectious. "Look at that," he said. I looked and saw at once that it was in Lalage's handwriting. I was obliged to give up the idea of claiming it as mine. "Why don't you read it?" said Thormanby. "I didn't know you wanted me to. Do you?" "How the deuce are you to know what's in it if you don't read it?" "It's quite safe, I suppose?"
Lord Thormanby, who rejoiced in a brand new Union peerage and was a wealthy man, kept race horses. Sir Francis, who, except for the Union peerage, was as big a man as Lord Thormanby, kept race horses too. Lord Thormanby bought a family coach of remarkable proportions. Sir Francis ordered a duplicate of it from the same coach-builder.
I had every hope of being left in peace for an hour or so. That was my plan. It proved, as all my plans do, unworkable; but, as is always the case, through no fault of my own. At the gate lodge of Thormanby Park I met Lalage. She was riding a bicycle and jumped down as soon as she saw me. I pulled up my pony, of course. Even if Lalage had not jumped down I should have pulled up the pony.
My original subscription carries me on from one society to another. Selby-Harrison arranged about that." "I should have thought," said Thormanby sulkily, "that you'd had warnings enough. You will never learn sense even if you live to be a hundred." I saw the Archdeacon next day. He tackled the subject of my defeat in East Connor without hesitation. He has even less tact than Thormanby.
I do not like being hustled in this way. "I shall study the situation," I said, "before I make up my mind. I am a life member of the Episcopal Election Guild and I must allow myself to be guided to some extent by the decision of the committee." "Do you mean to tell me," said Thormanby, "that you've given that girl money again?" "Not again.
"Your uncle, Lord Thormanby " "He'll put her in her place. He's promised to do so. And that will be all right as far as it goes. But the question is will she stay there. That's where you come in, Archdeacon. Once she's in her place it will be your business, as Archdeacon, to keep her there." "I'll speak to her father about it," said the Archdeacon. "Beresford must put his foot down."
Titherington told me so." "Influenza or no influenza, I shouldn't have sat down under the things that girl was saying about you." "What would you have done?" "I should have put her in her place pretty quick. I'm sorry I wasn't there." As a matter of fact Thormanby had taken very good care not to be there.
The gasps were due to excitement and agony. "I'm so glad you've come," she said. "I knew you would. Lord Thormanby is waiting for you in the library. I do hope you won't say anything to make it worse. You'll try not to, won't you?" I gathered from this that it, whatever it was, must be very bad already. "Lalage?" I said. Miss Battersby nodded solemnly.
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