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But if it is like the story, then mother knows how much I love her, so she won't be dreadfully lonely only a little bit, maybe." "What a beautiful story," Mrs. Westley's eyes glistened. "I would like to hear her tell it! Some day I want to know your mother, Jerry." That was such a pleasant thought her dear mother meeting Mrs.
Ludlow stooped forward and pulled the long ears of Mrs. Westley's fashionable dog which lay on the rug at his feet. "Have you any idea why she's changed her mind?" "Yes," said Ludlow. "I think it's because I helped her with it." "Is she so independent? Or perhaps I am not quite discreet " "Why not? You say she didn't look well?" "She looked worried." He asked, as if it immediately followed, "Mrs.
"If Lauzanne wins it will be Westley's riding; the Hanover colt, The Dutchman, is at his quarter. He'll beat him out, for the Hanovers are all game." "Come on you, Lauzanne!" Even the exotic stephanotis failed to obliterate the harsh, mercenary intensity of the feminine cry at the back of Allis. "He's beat!" a deep discordant voice groaned.
Westley's first Thursday, he made his way to her at once, and asked her if she would give him some tea, with the effect of having had a cup from her the day before. He did not know whether to be pleased or not that she treated their meeting as something uneventful, too, and made a little joke about remembering that he liked his tea without sugar. "I wasn't aware that you knew that," he said.
A flat-topped desk, rows of files, a bookcase filled with books bearing formidable titles, and three straight-backed chairs against the wall gave an impression of severity. Two redeeming things caught John Westley's eye a bowl of blooming narcissi and a painting of Sir Galahad. "I brought that from Paris," explained Barbara Lee.
What he leaves behind will check the fanged legions while he makes good his escape. The pack pours like a hideous flood over the spot where the last act of Nick Westley's tragedy has been played out. A brief but fiendish tumult, and little remains to tell of the sorry drama. The impassive mountains, unmoved spectators, give no sign.
Westley's eyes, which she knew were friendly to both Ludlow and herself, and she told her everything in her impassioned revery: all about that little wretch; all about the first portrait of Charmian and the likeness they had seen in it; all about what had happened since Ludlow began to criticise her work again.
We'll just see what he'll do himself, this trip," he added, addressing Crane. Taking Westley's small-booted foot in his hand, he lifted the lad to Diablo's back, and led the horse out through a gate to the course. The two boys cantered their mounts down to the quarter post carelessly, as though they were going around to the far side.
He did not try to exculpate himself, but he asked, "May I talk with Miss Maybough about it?" Cornelia returned gayly, "It's a free country." He rose from the chair which he had been keeping at her elbow, and looked about over the room. It was very full, and the first of Mrs. Westley's Thursdays was successful beyond question.
Then The Dutchman, with his powerful stride, full of easy motion a tireless gallop that would surely land him the winner, Langdon thought, as he hung with breathless interest on every move of Westley's body. Up in the stand Old Bill was expressing in florid racetrack speech to Mortimer his deductions. "Days a good kid on Larcen. See what he's doin'; he's trailin' 'em.
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