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Updated: June 1, 2025
A few days later the announcement of his approaching marriage reached Garthowen, in a letter from Will himself, enclosing the unposted missive, which he had discovered in his pocket as he drove to Nantmyny on the previous Sunday.
He undressed slowly, looking at himself in the glass, pausing when he drew off his waistcoat, unbuttoning his braces with deliberation. "I can make nothing of it; there never was any one like me.... I could do anything, I might have been Napoleon or Cæsar." As he folded his coat he put his hand into the breast pocket and produced the unposted letter. "That letter will drive me mad!
"Shall I ask at the office?" the waiter asked. "By no means," answered Thresk, and he added: "I will have dinner served up here to-night." There was just a possibility, he thought, that he might after all escape this particular payment. He took from his pocket his unposted letter to Stella Ballantyne. There was no longer any use for it and even its existence was now dangerous to Stella.
The struggle lasted indeed another couple of days, and the aspect of both Meynell and Mary showed deep marks of it by the end. Throughout it Mary made little or no appeal to the mere womanly arts. And perhaps it was the repression of them that cost her most. On the third day of discussion, while the letter still lay unposted in Meynell's writing-case, he went wandering by himself up the valley.
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