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Yet there occurs to me a panacea for these disasters." "Then, indeed, Mr. Vanringham," said I, "there is one of us who will be uncommonly glad to know the name of it."
Vanringham will be arrested merely on suspicion, mind you, and all his papers will be brought to me; and it is possible that among them we may find the petition. And it is possible that, somehow, when he is tried with the others, Mr. Vanringham alone may be acquitted. And it is possible that an aunt in Wales, say, may die about this time and leave him a legacy of some five thousand pounds.
You have, one and all, set forth the advantages of my immediate demise; your logic is unassailable and has proven suicide my plain duty; and my rebuttal is confined to the statement that I will see every one of you damned before I'll do it." Mr. Francis Vanringham rose with a little bow.
For in every approved romance the third adventurer gets the victory; so that I am, I take it, predestinate to win where Vanringham and Rokesle failed." She did not chop logic with him, but instead retorted in a more primitive fashion by beginning to scream at the top of her voice. I doubt if any man of honor was ever placed under a more great embarrass.
He came back, came up the stairs. "You had left your sword," he said to Mr. Vanringham, "but I fetched it, you see." Vanringham stared, his lips working oddly. "I am no Siegfried," said he, "and ordinarily my bedfellow is not cold and deplorable defect in such capacity! somewhat unsympathetic steel." "But you forget," the boy urged, "that the room is public. And see, the hilt is set with jewels.
And the Parson wrung his hands and began to shake like a dish of jelly in a thunder-storm. "Captain Audaine," Mr. Vanringham resumed, with more tranquillity, "you are correct. Clidamira and Parthenissa would never have fled into the night without leaving a note upon the pin-cushion. The folly I kindled in your wife's addled pate has proven my ruin. Remains to make the best of Hobson's choice."
Why, Frank, the man is one of the play-actors." "I fancy," Mr. Vanringham here interpolates, "that I owe the assembled company some modicum of explanation. 'Tis true that at the beginning of our friendship I had contemplated matrimony with our amiable Marchioness, but, I confess, 'twas the lady's property rather than her person which was the allure.
With a diamond Vanringham dexterously cut out a pane of glass, so that we had little difficulty in opening the window; and I climbed into a room black as a pocket, leaving him without to act as a sentinel, since, so far as I could detect, the house was now untenanted.
In fine, the Prince de Gatinais became so jovial that Nelchen was quite at ease, and Louis de Soyecourt became vaguely alarmed. He knew his father, and for the Prince to yield thus facilely was incredible. Still, his father had seen Nelchen, had talked with Nelchen.... Now the Prince rose. "Fresh glasses, Vanringham," he ordered; and then: "I give you a toast.
"Eh, that is the true panacea for faintness for every ill. Come, we will drink to the most beautiful woman in Poictesme nay, I am too modest, to the most beautiful woman in France, in Europe, in the whole universe! Feriam sidera, my father! and confound all mealy-mouthed reticence, for you have both seen her. Confess, am I not a lucky man? Come, Vanringham, too, shall drink. No glasses?
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