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"Shall we say 10.30?" "If you wish." "Then call for me at the Quisisana at ten o'clock.... In the meantime, I leave it to your sense of honour not to communicate with Miss Verney." "Agreed." "You needn't trouble to see me to my hotel. I'll go back in the taxi." It was a night of very troubled thought for all three. To Rivière, with his complex, many-layered nature, especially so.
"Now who would suppose that I would ever again see that chipping from a London gaol I told you of my shipmate of cleanly habit and unsocial nature. Yet there he is." The afternoon sunshine lay hot upon the house and garden of Verney Manor the leaves drooped motionless, the glare of the white paths hurt the eye, the flowers seemed all to be red.
Sir Charles, I grieve for the necessity, but we must leave the court and come back to the wilderness. Gentlemen, will you ride with Verney and me, or shall we part now to meet at sunset in his orchard?" "We had best ride with your Excellency," said Carrington gravely. "I like not the temper of the Chickahominies, who ever mean most when they say least.
The artful Warde had a word to say, which gave John food for thought. "You can never equal your friend at cricket or footer, Verney. If you wish to score, it is time to play your own game." Shortly after this, John realized that Warde had read Caesar aright. Charles Desmond's son, as has been said, acclaimed quality wherever he met it. John's intellectual advance amazed and then fascinated him.
"If our fears are well founded," he said solemnly, "may God give you strength, John Verney, to bear the blow." Then he tore open the envelope and read the truth "Henry Desmond killed in action." "No," said John, fiercely. "It is Scaife, Scaife!" Warde shook his head, holding John's hand tight between his sinewy fingers. John's face appalled him.
One said, 'When the Malignants are put down, what then? and another answered, 'Surely we will possess their lands and their houses, their silver and their gold, for is it not written, "The Lord hath given them a spoil unto their servants." Then the first said, 'Shall we not kill the Malignant, Verney? Margery heard no more. She came away." Patricia rose to her feet, pale, with brilliant eyes.
And then followed a rapid comparison, first between the real and the ideal, and secondly between himself and Scaife. His face broke into a smile. "Why, Verney," he exclaimed, "you mustn't turn me into a sort of Golden Calf. And as for Scaife not being good enough for me, why, he's miles ahead of me in everything.
"Your boots, for instance most excellent boots for wading through the swamps in the New Forest, but quite impossible in town. And the 'topper' you wear on Sunday! Southampton, you say? Ah, I thought it was a Verney heirloom. Now, it wouldn't surprise me to hear that your mother, who dresses herself quite charmingly, bought your kit." "She did," John confessed. "Just so. One need say no more.
The other gasped; then he threw back his curly head and laughed. "I say, I beg your pardon. I didn't mean to laugh. If you're not Hardacre, who are you?" "Verney. I've just come." "Verney? That's a great Harrow name. Are you any relation to the explorer?" "Nephew," said John, blushing. "Ah you ought to have been here last Speecher. We cheered him, I can tell you.
You feel yourself under an obligation to Miss Verney because of her intervention between you and that vitriol-thrower. You don't know just how you can repay it. Obviously you can't offer her money. A girl of her finely-strung feelings couldn't take a pension from you.... Now I have a suggestion that clears away the difficulty completely." "What is it?" asked Rivière non-committally.
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