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"For that matter, Miss Van Vluyck said she had never grudged the time she'd given it." Mrs. Plinth interposed: "I made it clear that I knew nothing whatever of the original." Mrs. Ballinger broke off the dispute with a groan. "Oh, what does it all matter if she's been making fools of us? I believe Miss Van Vluyck's right she was talking of the river all the while!" "How could she?
Roby herself that the subject was one it was as well not to go into too deeply?" Miss Van Vluyck rejoined with precision: "I think that applied only to an investigation of the origin of the of the "; and suddenly she found that her usually accurate memory had failed her. "It's a part of the subject I never studied myself," she concluded lamely. "Nor I," said Mrs. Ballinger.
Leveret moaned: "I don't see how she could!" and Miss Van Vluyck said, picking up her note-book: "Some women stop at nothing." " but if," Mrs. Roby's resignation or to offer mine." "Oh, Mrs. Plinth " gasped the Lunch Club. "Fortunately for me," Mrs.
"Well, my dear," the new-comer briskly asked her hostess, "what subjects are we to discuss to-day?" Mrs. Ballinger was furtively replacing a volume of Wordsworth by a copy of Verlaine. "I hardly know," she said, somewhat nervously. "Perhaps we had better leave that to circumstances." "Circumstances?" said Miss Van Vluyck drily.
"We are eager to hear from you," Miss Van Vluyck continued, "if the pessimistic tendency of the book is an expression of your own convictions or " "Or merely," Miss Glyde thrust in, "a sombre background brushed in to throw your figures into more vivid relief. Are you not primarily plastic?" "I have always maintained," Mrs. Ballinger interposed, "that you represent the purely objective method "
"Yes," said Miss Van Vluyck, with a sudden resolve to carry the war into the enemy's camp. "We are so anxious to know the exact purpose you had in mind in writing your wonderful book." "You will find," Mrs. Plinth interposed, "that we are not superficial readers."
"Why, what she said about the source that it was corrupt?" "Not corrupt, but hard to get at," Laura Glyde corrected. "Some one who'd been there had told her so. I daresay it was the explorer himself doesn't it say the expedition was dangerous?" "'Difficult and dangerous," read Miss Van Vluyck. Mrs. Ballinger pressed her hands to her throbbing temples.
Miss Van Vluyck thoughtfully rubbed her spectacles. "What surprised me most," she continued, "was that Fanny Roby should be so up on Xingu." This remark threw a slight chill on the company, but Mrs. Ballinger said with an air of indulgent irony: "Mrs. Roby always has the knack of making a little go a long way; still, we certainly owe her a debt for happening to remember that she'd heard of Xingu."
Her tone added "though I might easily have it done for me by the footman." "I was about to say," Miss Van Vluyck resumed, "that it must always be a question whether a book CAN instruct unless it elevates." "Oh " murmured Mrs. Leveret, now feeling herself hopelessly astray. "I don't know," said Mrs.
Plinth was the first to compose her features to an air of reassurance: after a moment's hasty adjustment her look almost implied that it was she who had given the word to Mrs. Ballinger. "Xingu, of course!" exclaimed the latter with her accustomed promptness, while Miss Van Vluyck and Laura Glyde seemed to be plumbing the depths of memory, and Mrs.
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