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Hadn't I had the effect rather of diminishing the lustre of the article than of adding to my own? Her ladyship was subject to the most extraordinary drops. It didn't matter; the only effect I cared about was the one it would have on Vereker up there by his bedroom fire.
The thing Vereker had mentioned to me was exactly the thing he, Corvick, had wanted me to speak of in my review. On my suggesting at last that with the assistance I had now given him he would doubtless be prepared to speak of it himself he admitted freely that before doing this there was more he must understand.
"Daisy Vereker has promised to meet me, and as she is only here a week on her way to school in Paris I should hate to disappoint her." The two girls were lingering now about the grass arena, talking volubly, whispering, giggling. Miss Vereker's maid, a yellow-haired Swiss, sat not far off with her knitting, and every now and then she called harshly to her charge to know the time.
She grabbed it away from them again on the reappearance of Hugh Vereker, who after our walk had been upstairs to change something. "I know you don't in general look at this kind of thing, but it's an occasion really for doing so. You HAVEN'T seen it? Then you must. The man has actually got AT you, at what I always feel, you know."
The other looked up with surprise, while Mr Stokes stared at him with wonder, and the Irishman opened his big blue eyes wide to the full. "I have already told you, sir," replied Colonel Vereker very quickly. "As I told you before, it was the seventh of November last Friday." "Yes; but I mean what time of the day, sir?" "Oh, I should think about five o'clock in the afternoon.
He was immensely stirred up by the anecdote I had brought from Bridges; it fell in so completely with the sense he had had from the first that there was more in Vereker than met the eye. When I remarked that the eye seemed what the printed page had been expressly invented to meet he immediately accused me of being spiteful because I had been foiled. Our commerce had always that pleasant latitude.
"To rush! I should think so," exclaimed Mrs. Vereker. "Why, she was at Mrs. Dennis Sutherland's last night; though I only caught a glimpse of her. She left so early; I suppose that was why " I stumbled to my feet, feeling sick and dizzy, and upset the little table with my glass that Jim had placed at my elbow. "Sorry, Mary, I'm always a clumsy beggar," I said, forcing a laugh.
"Extremely natural and feminine!" nodded his lordship. "Because of his grand aunt and fine uncles for one thing," said Diana. "And for what other reason?" I demanded. "Just because!" "Because of what?" "Never mind!" "And there you have it, sir!" I exclaimed. "Did you ever hear such futile answers?" "Often, and generally from the loveliest lips, Mr. Vereker "
It was, in truth, a fearful-looking object, being swollen to the most abnormal proportions from the ankle joint to the thigh, while the skin was of a dark hue, save where some extravasated blood clustered about a small punctured orifice just above the knee. Colonel Vereker laughed and shrugged his shoulders. "The fortune of war," he explained.
You miss it, my dear fellow, with inimitable assurance; the fact of your being awfully clever and your article's being awfully nice doesn't make a hair's breadth of difference. It's quite with you rising young men," Vereker laughed, "that I feel most what a failure I am!" I listened with intense interest; it grew in-tenser as he talked. "You a failure heavens!
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