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George gave a slight involuntary start. Then it occurred to him that his mother was making conversation in an odd way. "Once or twice," he said, reluctantly, in reply. "They were at the Ardaghs' the other night, of course." "Oh! you were there?" Lady Tressady's voice was sharp again. "Well, of course. Letty went as your wife, and you're a member of Parliament.
As he spoke the great heavily built fellow looked round him, and a murmur of assenting applause came from the bystanders. Tressady studied him. "Are you fit?" he said shortly. Burrows flushed. Tressady's penetrating look forced his own to meet it. "As fit as you are," was his haughty reply. "Well" said Tressady, slowly, "we don't want to be refusing strong men.
Was it like the bird or the flower, that adorns itself only for the wooing time, and sinks into relative dinginess when the mating effort is over? On this particular evening, indeed, she was really absorbed half the time in gloomy thoughts of Lady Tressady's behaviour and the poorness of her own prospects.
"George " there was something like a sob in her voice "you were quite right. I am ill. There, don't talk about it. The doctors are all fools. And if you tell Letty anything about it, I'll never forgive you." George put his arm round her, but was not, in truth, much disturbed. Lady Tressady's repertory, alas! had many roles.
She had set her mind, as the spectators in this particular case had speedily divined, upon enslaving young George Tressady. And she had not failed. For even during these last stirring days it had been tolerably clear that she and his election had divided Tressady's mind between them, with a balance, perhaps, to her side.
Watton's sharp grey eyes smiled behind her fan, and the attention of her neighbour, Lord Fontenoy an uneasy attention was again and again drawn to the pair. Meanwhile, during the first half of dinner, a chair immediately opposite to Tressady's place remained vacant.
By now, I should think, he has dragged her through every torture that marriage admits of." "So soon?" said George, drily. "Well," said the friend, laughing, "no doubt it admits of a great many." "I am ready to go home," said a voice at Tressady's elbow. Something in the intonation surprised him, and he turned quickly.
As Tressady turned against the stream of his party, Fontenoy, with a sarcastic smile, stood elaborately aside to let him pass. "We shall soon know what you have cost us," he said hoarsely in Tressady's ear; then, advancing a little towards the centre of the floor, he looked up markedly and deliberately at the Ladies' Gallery. Tressady made no reply.
Well at least I know " The words broke off incoherently. Burrows caught the word "suffering," and some phrase about "the men," then Tressady's head slipped back against the wall, and he spoke no more. But the mind was active long afterwards. Again and again he seemed to himself standing in a bright light, alive and free. Innumerable illusions played about him.
According to his letters home, he had wandered through Persia, India, and Ceylon; had found friends and amusement everywhere; and in the latter colony had even served eight months as private secretary to the Governor, who had taken a fancy to him, and had been suddenly bereft by a boating accident of the indispensable young man who was accustomed to direct the hospitalities of Government House before Tressady's advent.
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