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As though he feared that Varden might express surprise, or reason with him, he hastily went on: 'You will think, I know, I labour under some delusion. Perhaps I do. But it is not a morbid one; it is a wholesome action of the mind, reasoning on actual occurrences.
It will make politics seem worth while to us, sir." "Good!" ejaculated the Duke. "You're hearing the voice of the young men of this State now, Varden." He stood up. "Here's my boy for your service. He'll be in the next legislature. Use him. Depend on him. You're old you've earned your rest. I know it. But here's a loud call for a sacrifice. This boy and such as he can lift a lot of the load.
"Yes, yes," Varden assented, "Penton is all you say, but he has no sense of humour ... and he takes himself and his work as seriously as if the destiny of the human race depended on it ... which is getting in a bad way, for a reformer, you know gives a chap's enemies and antagonists so many good openings....
You'll not forget my message to the ladies, Mr Varden? Peak, show Mr Varden to the door. Gabriel said no more, but gave the knight a parting look, and left him. As he quitted the room, Sir John's face changed; and the smile gave place to a haggard and anxious expression, like that of a weary actor jaded by the performance of a difficult part.
'No masquerading tricks, said the locksmith, 'and tales at the club to-morrow, how Gabriel Varden was frightened by a surly voice and a dark night. Stand let me see your face. Finding that further resistance would only involve him in a personal struggle with an antagonist by no means to be despised, the traveller threw back his coat, and stooping down looked steadily at the locksmith.
There was some thought of naming Ajax, Dolly Varden; but on close inspection it seemed most to resemble the gayly striped ribbons my sisters wore. I was far afield as to names, but in later years with only a glance at any specimen I could say, "Oh, yes! I always have known that.
Of so refined a character, indeed, was their talent of assault under the mask of sympathy, that when Dolly, recovering, embraced her father tenderly, as in vindication of his goodness, Mrs Varden expressed her solemn hope that this would be a lesson to him for the remainder of his life, and that he would do some little justice to a woman's nature ever afterwards in which aspiration Miss Miggs, by divers sniffs and coughs, more significant than the longest oration, expressed her entire concurrence.
'You are quite a Christian, Mr Varden, said Sir John; 'and in that amiable capacity, you increase my desire that you should take a chair. 'Very discreet of Mr Dennis, observed Sir John with a slight yawn, though still with the utmost affability, 'but except for your admirable and lucid manner of telling it, which is perfect not very interesting to me.
'Now, who would think, thought Varden, shrugging his shoulders and drawing his chair nearer to the fire, 'that that woman could ever be pleasant and agreeable? And yet she can be. Well, well, all of us have our faults. I'll not be hard upon hers. We have been man and wife too long for that. He dozed again not the less pleasantly, perhaps, for his hearty temper.
Will you inform them that I don't intend to wait much longer?" Thornton did not lose his smile. He sat down. He nodded across the room to Harlan with as much nonchalance as though he had been seeing him every day. "I would have run in before this, Varden, but somehow I got the impression from you and the boy that you were fully capable of operating things yourself.
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