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"There's a good hour till dinner, Christopher, and I must know what he said. How long you've been!" He followed her in and closed the door behind him. The little white-panelled room was so perfect an expression of its owner that at all times Christopher felt a still wonder fall on him to find himself within its confines.
In a very high, white-panelled room, with but little furniture, Lord Valleys greeted his mother-in-law respectfully. "Motored up in nine hours, Ma'am not bad going." "I am glad you came. When is Miltoun's election?" "On the twenty-ninth." "Pity! He should be away from Monkland, with that anonymous woman living there." "Ah! yes; you've heard of her!"
By ten o'clock the white-panelled front door with its brass knocker had opened and shut for the last time, and Austin bolted it, and turned to Sylvia, smiling. "Well, Mrs. Gray," he said, "you're locked in now far from all the sights and sounds that made your youth happy shop-windows, and hotel dining-rooms, the slamming of limousine doors, and the clinking of ice in cocktail-shakers.
He looked particularly tall in the frame of the doorway, so low that his black hair almost touched the lintel; particularly handsome in the shaded, white-panelled room, into which the dark glow of his sunburned skin and brown eyes, bright with exercise, seemed to bring the light and warmth of the summer earth and sky. Milly sprang to meet him.
Looking upon the settlement where he lived, set as it was like a white-and-green jewel in a ring of lush barbaric beauty, his fancy showed him the vista of a spinsterish-looking Main Street lined by dooryards having fences of pointed painted pickets, and behind the pickets, peonies and hollyhocks encroaching upon prim flagged walks which led back to the white-panelled doors of small houses buried almost to their eaves in lilac bushes and golden glow.
Here, in a lofty, white-panelled room, with long windows looking down upon the private gardens of the Castle in which His Excellency and Captain Streatfield, one of the A.D.C.'s, were walking up and down, Mrs. Henniker and I sat talking of the past almost more than we did of the actual present.
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