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'Well, imagine him going off like that. He's always going off suddenly. Millicent stopped and then added: 'He only danced with mother. But he's a good dancer. 'I should think he was! Ethel murmured, roused from lethargy. 'Isn't he just, mother? Leonora mumbled again. 'Your mother's knocked up, said John drily. 'These late nights don't suit her. So you reckon Mr. Twemlow's a good dancer, eh?
He argued that John deserved to suffer for his carelessness in losing it, that John ought to have heard his call, and that anyhow John would surely inquire for it and might then be allowed to receive it with a few remarks upon the need of a calm demeanour at fires; but John never did inquire for it. When William Twemlow's will was proved a few weeks later, Meshach Myatt made no comment whatever.
The parson will back me up in every letter of it, having said the same thing of him, last Sunday week. But I beg Mrs. Twemlow's pardon, if I said it loud enough to disturb her.
He ordered Twemlow's head to come off by dinner-time, and, alas, that royal household kept very early hours; and the poor captain, corded to a tree, sniffed sadly the growth of good roast, which he never should taste, and could only succeed in succession of fare.
Other rumours, that Ethel Stanway and Fred Ryley were about to be secretly married, that Dain would have been the owner of Prince but for the difference between guineas and pounds, and that the real object of Arthur Twemlow's presence in the Five Towns was to buy up the concern of Twemlow & Stanway, were received with reserve, though not entirely discredited.
He kept on meaning to go and call on Caryl Carne, and he had quite made up his mind to do it, but something always happened to prevent him. Neither did he care a groat for his old friend Twemlow's advice upon that subject.
Twemlow stopped as Stanway half-turned to look at the door between the two rooms. 'Go on, go on, said Stanway in his grandiose manner. 'That's all right. Ethel knew in a flash that her father would have given a great deal to have had the door shut, and equally that nothing on earth would have induced him to shut it. 'That's all right, he repeated. 'Go on. Twemlow's voice regained steadiness.
In the bedroom he remarked: 'Your friend Twemlow's had to go to London to-day, and may return straight from there to New York. I had a note from him. He sent you his kindest regards and all that sort of thing. 'Then we mayn't see him again? she said, delicately fingering her hair in front of the pier-glass.
The men talked freely but vapidly with the most careful politeness, and it seemed to her that Twemlow was annoyed, while Stanway was determined to offer no explanation of his absence from tea. Once, in a pause, John turned to Leonora and said that he had been upstairs to see Rose. Leonora was surprised at the change in Twemlow's demeanour.
They soon afterwards dismissed the subject, put it with care away in a corner; and John finished his supper. 'Is Mr. Twemlow still in the district? she asked vivaciously. 'Yes, said John, and there was a pause. 'You're doing some business together, aren't you, Jack? she hazarded. John hesitated. 'No, he said, 'he only wanted to see me about old Twemlow's estate some details he was after.
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