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Therefore, as he lay on the Mangan blue rep-covered drawing-room sofa, with a satin cushion adorned with Tishy's conception of roses, in water-colour, under his head, while pretty Nurse Brennan gently massaged his wrist, and the Mangan Quartet warbled: "O, believe me if all those endearing young charms," or "When thro' life unblest we rove," Larry passed into ecstasy, that, had he been one degree less of a schoolboy, might have been exhaled in tears; even as the sun draws water from the sea, in a mist of glory, and returns it to the world again in rain.
Tishy was, in her own way, as sound an asset as any that he possessed, a thoroughly well-made article, a right-down handsome girl, the Big Doctor thought complacently, good enough for any position, and for any man. "But she's not for any man, I can tell them!" thought Tishy's father; "that's just where the difference of it is! I'll see to that, you may take your oath!"
He appeared to watch this labour. "But with no light yet?" "When it comes I'll tell you." He hung fire once more but an instant. "You didn't yourself work the thing again?" She rose at this in strange sincerity. "I think, you know, you go very far." "Why, didn't we just now settle," he promptly replied, "that it's all instinctive and unconscious? If it was so that night at Tishy's !"
His opinion remained unchanged, but he was beginning to fear that Tishy's taste was deteriorating.
It didn't occur to you to write your own?" Vanderbank went on. "Well, but if it isn't mine? It ISN'T mine, I'm sure." "Therefore also if it can't be Tishy's " "The thing's simple enough it's mother's." "'Simple'?" Vanderbank laughed. "I like you! And may I ask if you've read the remarkable work?" "Oh yes." Then she wonderfully said: "For Tishy." "To see if it would do?"
The fire roared and crackled, the kettle bubbled, and Tishy's grey and gleaming glances through the smoke were like a succession of boxes of matches, cast upon the responsive fires of Larry's and Georgy's holiday hearts. The young May moon has often been a factor in affairs of the heart whose importance cannot be ignored.
He did not wait for them. He put from his mind the memory of the last time he had seen from that hill-side the sun go down. Rather he set his thoughts, resolutely, on that other last time, in the library of Mount Music. And he called up Tishy's brilliant face, framed in the furs that he had given her, that it might help him to drive away other memories.
Tishy obeyed, and the Doctor surveyed her attentively. The position that is assigned to patients in a doctor's consulting room is one that faces the light, pitilessly, inescapably; but for Tishy, this was a negligible disadvantage. A peacock butterfly looks its best in sunlight, and Tishy's dark bloom, and intent eyes of luminous grey, faced the glare of October sunlight with confident unconcern.
'So you think it will take about ten years, considering Tishy's size or want of size? He himself again was the only one to laugh at this. 'Your mother is closeted, as much as she can be closeted now, with Madame de Brives, and perhaps this time they are really settling something. 'I have thought that before and nothing has come.
Such goings-on! And after all, Tishy's nothing so much out of the way, for all Frankie Mangan thinks the world should die down before her!" The two birds referred to were still fluttering round their captor, when a new element was added to the party in the large presence of "Frankie Mangan" himself.
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