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More almost than by the revelation of his long deception as to his wife was he humiliated and tortured by these words relating to his debt to Morrison on Welby's lips. This successful rival, this fine gentleman! admitted to his sordid affairs. He rose uncertainly, pulling himself passionately together.
"Yes; and he said he was coming to chew you up," answered Whopper, with a wink at his chums. "H-he did!" quaked Simon Lundy. "Sa-say, hadn't we better be a-goin'?" "We are not going to bother to look for him any more," said Snap, who was disgusted with the cowardly and miserly farmer. "We are going on our way." "An' what be I a-goin' tew do?" "Take Mr. Welby's boat back," answered Snap, shortly.
But our host, I presume, is also practical; his place is a much higher one than Welby's, and yet he is surely not without belief?" "He was born before the new ideas came into practical force; but in proportion as they have done so, his beliefs have necessarily disappeared.
MY DEAR FATHER, You and my dear mother will be pleased to hear that London continues very polite to me: that "arida nutrix leonum" enrolls me among the pet class of lions which ladies of fashion admit into the society of their lapdogs. It is somewhere about six years since I was allowed to gaze on this peep-show through the loopholes of Mr. Welby's retreat.
'Oh, poor soul! poor soul! she said, aloud, pressing her hands on her eyes. 'What on earth do you mean! said Mrs. Welby's voice beside her startled stiff a little suspicious. Eugénie looked up and blushed. 'I beg your pardon! I was thinking of Marie Antoinette. 'I'm so tired of Marie Antoinette! said the invalid, raising a petulant hand, and letting it fall again, inert.
He was exceedingly gentle in voice and manner, and had all his father's placidity of temper: children and dogs took to him as by instinct. On leaving Mr. Welby's, Kenelm carried to Cambridge a mind largely stocked with the new ideas that were budding into leaf. He certainly astonished the other freshmen, and occasionally puzzled the mighty Fellows of Trinity and St. John's.
Arthur Welby had approached him, but Lord Findon had rather pointedly drawn an arm through Welby's and swept him away. No one else spoke to him, and even the private secretary, who had before befriended him, left him severely alone.
Fitzgerald once on horseback, while I was visiting at Mr. Welby's plantation; but I never fairly saw him until to-day. He is so very handsome, that, when I looked at him, I could not but think it rather remarkable he did not gain a bad power over you by his insinuating flattery, when you were so very young and inexperienced."
One Morning there came into the Dining Room of the Peerless Hotel at Welby's Junction an English Tourist and the Advance Agent of the Mabel Mooney Repertoire Company. The English Traveler appeared to have received Bad News from Home, but he had not. That was the Normal Expression. His Mustache was long and wilted. Also the Weary Look around the Eyes.
Perhaps I shall meet you again in the woods or on the beach. I hope I shall." "Excuse me," said the lady. "I have no wish to intrude upon your privacy. But if you would like to call upon me at Mr. Welby's plantation, where I shall be for three or four weeks, I shall always be glad to receive you." "Thank you," replied Flora, still struggling with embarrassment.
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