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There's Rachel and Cicely got no children; and Val's out there that chap his father will get hold of all he can. And somebody'll pick up Imogen, I shouldn't wonder." Soames listened vaguely he had heard all this before. Whish-whish! went the brushes. "If that's all!" said Emily. "All!" cried James; "it's nothing. I'm coming to that." And again his eyes strained pitifully at Soames.
And with that summing-up of the effect of beauty on human nature, he was silent, watching his son with eyes doubting as a bird's. Soames, too, was silent. Whish-whish went the brushes. "Come, James! Soames knows best. It's his 'business." "Ah!" said James, and the word came from deep down; "but there's all my money, and there's his who's it to go to? And when he dies the name goes out."
There's Rachel and Cicely got no children; and Val's out there that chap his father will get hold of all he can. And somebody'll pick up Imogen, I shouldn't wonder." Soames listened vaguely he had heard all this before. Whish-whish! went the brushes. "If that's all!" said Emily. "All!" cried James; "it's nothing. I'm coming to that." And again his eyes strained pitifully at Soames.
There was no sign of any enemy; no telling where the bullets came from. "Such a lot of them, one must surely get me!" Peterkin thought. Whish-whish! Th-ipp-whing! The refrain gripped his imagination with an unseen hand. He seemed to be suffocating. He wanted to throw himself down and hold his hands in front of his head.
His eye had the steely gleam of his rifle sight and the liver patch on his cheek was a deeper hue as he sought to avenge Eugene's death. Drowned by the racket of their own fire, not even Peterkin was hearing the whish-whish of the bullets from Dellarme's company now.
And with that summing-up of the effect of beauty on human nature, he was silent, watching his son with eyes doubting as a bird's. Soames, too, was silent. Whish-whish went the brushes. "Come, James! Soames knows best. It's his 'business." "Ah!" said James, and the word came from deep down; "but there's all my money, and there's his who's it to go to? And when he dies the name goes out."
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