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Then with a subtlety that matched itself for the moment with Vanderbank's: "You just told me yourself that the little foreign person " "Is ever so much the lovelier of the two? So I did. But you've promptly recognised it. It's the first time," Vanderbank went on, to let him down more gently, "that I've heard Mrs. Brookenham admit the girl's good looks." "Her own girl's? 'Admit' them?"
Longdon spoke kindly, but if his friend's anxiety grew his own thereby diminished. "Can you think of nothing at all?" "Do you mean that I've done?" "No, but that whether you've done it or not I may have become aware of." There could have been no better proof than Vanderbank's expression, on this, of his having mastered the secret of humouring without appearing to patronise.
Some trace indeed of the glimpse of it enjoyed by Mr. Cashmere's present interlocutor might have been detected in the restlessness that Vanderbank's desire to keep the other pair uninterrupted was still not able to banish from his attitude. Not, however, that Mrs.
"Oh there's no joy without danger" Mrs. Brook took it up with spirit. "Perhaps one should even say there's no danger without joy." Vanderbank's eyes had followed Mrs. Grendon after his brief passage with her, terminated by some need of her listless presence on the other side of the room. "What do you say then, on that theory, to the extraordinary gloom of our hostess?
She spoke of her daughter as only sixteen." Vanderbank's amusement at the tone of this broke out. "She usually does! She has done so, I think, for the last year or two." His visitor dropped upon his sofa as with the weight of something sudden and fresh; then from this place, with a sharp little movement, tossed into the fire the end of a cigarette.
Brook's eyes had, on Tishy's passing away, taken the same course as Vanderbank's, whom she had visibly not neglected moreover while the pair stood there. "I give you Carrie, as you know, and I throw Mr. Cashmore in; but I'm lost in admiration to-night, as I always have been, of the way Tishy makes her ugliness serve.
It's amazing what you'd rather do with a thing anything not to shoot at or to make money with than look at its meaning. If I wished to save the girl as YOU wish it I should know exactly from what. But why differ about reasons," she asked, "when we're at one about the fact? I don't mention the greatest of Vanderbank's merits," she added "his having so delicious a friend.
As the reflexion of her tone might have been caught by an observer in Vanderbank's face it was in all probability caught by his interlocutress, who superficially, however, need have recognised there what was all she showed but the right manner of waiting for dinner. "The better way then is to dash right in? That's what our friend here does?"
Longdon looked at him as if he had had fifty windows. "What a head you must have!" "Oh yes our head's Sir Digby Dence." "And what do we do for you?" "Well, you gild the pill though not perhaps very thick. But it's a decent berth." "A thing a good many fellows would give a pound of their flesh for?" Vanderbank's visitor appeared so to deprecate too faint a picture that he dropped all scruples.
Brook was, though placed in profile, fully presented; the satisfaction with which she had lately sunk upon a light gilt chair marked itself as superficial and was moreover visibly not confirmed by the fact that Vanderbank's high-perched head, arrested before her in a general survey of opportunity, kept her eyes too far above the level of talk.
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