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But he feared there was no hope of such a chance coming Miss Brabazon's way. Varick's heart his big, sensitive heart was buried in the grave of his wife.... How strange to think that "poor Milly" for so had even her doctor come to call her in his own mind had been born and brought up in this delightful old house!
And as Waythorn mused, another idea struck him: had Haskett ever met Varick as Varick and he had just met? The recollection of Haskett perturbed him, and he rose and left the restaurant, taking a circuitous way out to escape the placid irony of Varick's nod. It was after seven when Waythorn reached home. He thought the footman who opened the door looked at him oddly.
I was away in Portugal, I think. He wrote and told me about his marriage, and then, later, when his wife fell ill, he wrote again. He was extremely good to her, Mark." "D'you know much about Varick's early life?" he asked. "I think I know all there is to know," she answered. What was Mark getting at? What had Lionel Varick done?
The only person who was of the slightest use was young Donnington; and I suspect " he smiled broadly. "What do you suspect?" asked Varick rather quickly. "Well, I suspect that he's in love with Miss Bubbles." "Of course he is." Varick's contemptuous tone jarred a little on Panton. "But Bubbles intends to become Mrs. Tapster." "I should be sorry to think that!" "Why sorry?
And then, all at once, the form to Varick's right began to dissolve to melt, as it were, into the green-grey and blue tapestry which hung across the farther wall of the hall. But while this curious phenomenon took place, the woman swathed in her grave-clothes remained quite clearly visible....
To tell the truth, Miss Farrow had not forgotten Bubbles when she had assented to Lionel Varick's suggestion that rich, if dull-witted, James Tapster should be included in the party. In what was called the moat garden of Wyndfell Hall, twilight was deepening into night.
Alice Haskett's remarriage with Gus Varick was a passport to the set whose recognition she coveted, and for a few years the Varicks were the most popular couple in town. Unfortunately the alliance was brief and stormy, and this time the husband had his champions. Still, even Varick's stanchest supporters admitted that he was not meant for matrimony, and Mrs.
It had almost been an instinct with her to keep Lionel Varick and Mark Gifford apart. In the old days she had been disagreeably aware of how absolutely Gifford had always disapproved of Varick, and of Varick's various ways of trying, often successfully, to raise the wind. Of course, everything was now different with regard to this particular friend.
Miss Farrow was particularly cordial, and so was Helen Brabazon. She and Dr. Panton had become real friends during Mrs. Varick's illness, and they had been at one in their affection for, and admiration of, Lionel Varick during that piteous time.
Seated between Helen Brabazon and Bubbles Dunster, he had thoroughly enjoyed the delicious New Year's Eve dinner composed by Varick's chef. Miss Brabazon had admitted to having a headache this evening, and she certainly looked very far from well less well than he had thought her to be when they had first seen one another again, after so long an absence, this afternoon.
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