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Nogo every morning, and greeted the titled Irishman with his easy familiar nod, as though the continued sitting of this very committee was of all things to him the most desirable. Such is Mr. Vigil's peculiar tact, such his special talent; these are the gifts gifts by no means ordinary which have made him Right Honourable, and recommended him to the confidence of successive badgers.
Her accent was sharp with anxiety as she added, "But of course he sends the board-money for me he would remember that?" Evidently she recalled the Señora Vigil's questions and doubts on this subject, for there was such intensity of apprehension in her look that Jane felt herself full of pain.
"I can't tell what I don't know, señora. I don't know if he has lost money. Tia only said that that I mightn't go back to school. She didn't say why, but she will, no doubt." Señora Vigil's eyes narrowed. She recalled certain rumors long afloat in town as to Jane's extravagance, and the inability of her means to such luxuries as pianos.
Ana, with her hands on her broad hips, short and thick as a squat brown jug with its handles akimbo, Ana, with her great clay-colored face and tiny, glittering eyes, with her thick, pale lips and coarse, black hair, surely none but a mother could view in Ana such charms as bedewed Señora Vigil's eyes only to think of!
The blood rushed up into Gregory Vigil's forehead; he put his hand to his head, and said: "Like him? Like that man? Is a rose like an artichoke?" Mrs. Pendyce went on: "I enjoyed having her here immensely. It's the first time she's been here since she left the Firs. How long is that? Two years? But you know, Grig, the Maidens were quite upset about her. Do you think a divorce is really necessary?"
He must obtain a balance on his side, but one in which the scale would lean so slightly to his side that Mr. Vigil's eyes might be deceived. Those who knew Mr. Vigil best were inclined to surmise that such an arrangement was somewhat beyond Mr. Nogo's political capacity.
"If I'd only known how to call the poor little soul a lot of coaxing names!" deplored Jane, "Then maybe she'd have come with me. She'd have been better off sleeping on my good feather bed than what she will on those ragged Mexican mats over to Vigil's."
"Vigil of the Unbeliever," said Harringay. "Rather subtle and clever that! But the left eyebrow isn't cynical enough." He went and dabbed at the eyebrow, and added a little to the lobe of the ear to suggest materialism. Further consideration ensued. "Vigil's off, I'm afraid," said Harringay. "Why not Mephistopheles? But that's a bit too common. 'A Friend of the Doge, not so seedy.
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