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It came out, by-the-bye, that he had given all his acquaintances the slip; they had completely lost sight of him I suppose until Miss Moxey met him by chance at Budleigh Salterton. There's some mystery still. She evidently kept Peak's secret from the Moorhouses and the Walworths. A nice business, altogether! Again there was a long silence.
'The Walworths struggling desperately with their umbrellas. 'I shouldn't wonder if you think it unworthy of an artist to carry an umbrella, said Buckland. 'Now you suggest it, I certainly do. They should get nobly drenched. She went out into the hall, and soon returned with her friends Miss Walworth the artist, Miss Muriel Walworth, and a youth, their brother.
The chance of its doing so had of course increased since Christian began to associate freely with the Walworths and their circle. Yet, considering the slightness of the connection between that group of people and the Warricombe family, there had seemed no great likelihood of Christian's getting acquainted with the latter. She debated rapidly in her troubled mind how to meet this disclosure.
"And what millionaire sent the diamond pendant? By Jove, I haven't seen finer jewels than those this side of the water." "That came from the Walworths, I believe. Take it all together, it's a great collection, isn't it? It shows up the odder because Ellen wouldn't have the freak grateful-patient gifts put to one side or even thrown into a sort of refining shadow.
'No. The word fell from her, absently, despondently. 'Miss Moxey, would anything be gained by our discussing my position? If you think it a mystery, hadn't we better leave it so? She made no answer. 'But perhaps, he went on, 'you have told them the Walworths and the Moorhouses that I owe my friends an explanation?
Just before dinner, one evening, as she sat alone in the drawing-room, Christian entered with a look which portended some strange announcement. He spoke abruptly: 'I have heard something astonishing. 'What is that? 'This afternoon I went to the matinee at the Vaudeville, and found myself among a lot of our friends the Walworths and the Hunters and the Mortons.
Still, she saw more of the Walworths and found them not illiberal. Agatha was intelligent, and fairly well read in modern authors; no need to conceal one's opinions in conversation with her.
This mood had been frequent in the young man of late. Sidwell remarked a change that was coming over him, a gloominess unnatural to his character. 'Seen the Walworths lately? he asked, when his sister had assured him that she was not seriously ailing. 'We called a few days ago. 'Meet anyone there? 'Two or three people. No one that interested me.
In her short conversation with Marcella, she had not ventured to refer to it. 'Do you know anything of the family? 'I was going to ask you the same, returned Buckland. 'I thought you might have heard something from the Walworths.
None the less, she was assiduous in maintaining friendly relations with the Walworths. Palmer's death. Instead of shunning ordinary society, he seemed bent on extending the circle of his acquaintance. He urged Marcella to invite friendly calls, to have guests at dinner. There seemed to be a general revival of his energies, exhibited in the sphere of study as well as of amusement.
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