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Updated: May 19, 2025
Carl Granberry stared insolently across the table. "Pass the buck," he reminded coolly. "And pour yourself some more whiskey. You're only a gentleman when you're drunk, Starrett. You're sober now." Payson and Wherry laughed. Starrett, not yet in the wine-flush of his heavy courtesy, passed the buck with a frown of annoyance.
She observed the wine-flush on his cheek, the wine-glitter in his eye, and she remarked the slight smile on his lips and the cynical assumption of nonchalance with which he fingered the jewel in his ear as he returned her gaze. She beheld now in her son a man more purposeful than she had ever known before.
He had screwed up his little yellow physiognomy into the shape of an ill-conditioned and battered face on a brass knocker. He had his usual afternoon wine-flush upon him; but a feeling of vindictiveness had placed his feelings of incipient intoxication under complete mastery. "So you dined in the ward-room, Mr Rattlin?"
Thus summoned by his name, Theodore, as a man of courage, had no choice. He emerged from his concealment, and presented himself before the Veiled Lady, with the wine-flush, it may be, quite gone out of his cheeks. "What wouldst thou with me?" she inquired, with the same gentle composure that was in her former utterance. "Mysterious creature," replied Theodore, "I would know who and what you are!"
It was again the callous, reckless face of Captain Charlot, rendered a trifle more reckless and a trifle more callous by the wine-flush on his cheeks and the wine-glitter in his eye. "Caron" said he, with a half-smile, "shall we have these ladies in to supper?" "God forbid!" ejaculated La Boulaye. "Nay, but I will," the other insisted, and he moved across to the window.
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