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Young, brisk, debonair, flushed with success and the sense of the mastery of life, he did not notice the lowering of Dick's brows, which deepened into almost a scowl when he turned frankly admiring eyes on Viviette, and drew her into gay, laughing talk, nor did he catch the hopelessness in the drag of Dick's feet as he went off to gaze sorrowfully at the fallen pride of his heart, the condemned stables.
'Don't disturb him, don't disturb him, said Louis laconically. 'Hullo, Viviette, what are you reading there that makes you flame up so? She was glancing over a letter that she had just opened, and at his words looked up with misgiving. The incident of the previous night left her in great doubt as to what her bearing towards him ought to be.
I love Dick very deeply. In spite of his huge bulk and rough ways there's something of the woman in him that makes one love him." They catalogued Dick's virtues, and then Viviette unfolded her scheme. One or other of the powerful personages whom, in her young confidence, she proposed to attack, would surely know of some opening abroad. "Even humble I sometimes hear of things," said Austin.
I have never heard that he is one, but they say that sleeping in strange places disturbs the minds of people who are given to that sort of thing, and provokes them to it. 'Unfortunately for your theory his bed has not been touched. 'Oh, what then can it be? Her brother looked her full in the face. 'Viviette! he said sternly. She seemed puzzled. 'Well? she replied, in simple tones.
"For heaven's sake, child, make up your mind quickly," said Katherine. Viviette sighed. Which should it be? Dick, with his great love and rough tenderness and big, protecting arms, or Austin with his conquering ways, his wit, his charm, his perception? Austin could give her the luxury that her sensuous nature delighted in, social position, the brilliant life of London. What could Dick give her?
Whoever may deplore it few will wonder that Viviette, who till then had stood high in his heaven, if she had not dominated it, sank, like the North Star, lower and lower with his retreat southward. Master of a large advance of his first year's income in circular notes, he perhaps too readily forgot that the mere act of honour, but for her self-suppression, would have rendered him penniless.
How good of you, Viviette, to come at once and have it out with me, instead of brooding over it with dark imaginings, and thinking bitter things of me, as many women would have done! He succinctly told the whole story of his little adventure with Tabitha that morning; and the sky was clear on both sides.
"And I had been feeling particularly lonely," she laughed. "Would you have accepted me?" "Do you think that it is quite a fair question?" "We have always been frank with one another since our childhood," said he. She smiled. "Has Viviette accepted you?" He broke away from her with a gay laugh, and lit a cigarette. "Your feminine subtlety does you credit, Katherine." "But has she?"
A lady in black was sitting in the sun, and the boy with the flaxen hair whom he had seen yesterday was at her feet. 'Viviette! he said. 'Swithin! at last! she cried. The words died upon her lips, and from very faintness she bent her head. For instead of rushing forward to her he had stood still; and there appeared upon his face a look which there was no mistaking.
Can I help you? Viviette asked, as Mrs. Martin, after speaking, turned to lift some large article. 'Oh, 'tis only the skeleton of a telescope that's got no works in his inside, said Swithin's grandmother, seizing the huge pasteboard tube that Swithin had made, and abandoned because he could get no lenses to suit it.
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