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But she could see enough she could see the bent and ill-clad figure of Nicky Viner, as she remembered him, an old, gray-bearded man, wringing his hands in groveling misery, while the mumbling voice, now whining and pleading, now servile, now plucking up courage to indulge in abuse, kept on without even, it seemed, a pause for breath.
"I could bear it, Veronica, if I hadn't made him go. I came to him, here, in this room, and bullied him till he went. I said horrible things to him that he must have remembered. "He wasn't like Nicky it was infinitely worse for him. And I was cruel to him. I had no pity. I drove him out to be killed. "And I simply cannot bear it." "But he didn't go then. He waited till till he was free.
She knew, and Nicky knew that, if a little boy could establish the fact of earache, he was absolved from all social and family obligations for as long as his affliction lasted. He wouldn't have to stand still and pretend he liked it while he was being kissed at. Frances kept her mouth shut when she smiled, as if she were trying not to. It was her upper lip that got the better of her.
You see my Nicky how black and mad-looking he is even when he's glad; well, just so " "Now, mother!" "Just so beautiful and fierce and red was my other beautiful baby. You didn't know, Ada, that a piece of my heart, the red of my blood, I left lying out there. Nicky she didn't know "
"Because then, my dear Nicky, you wouldn't have to pay so stiff a price." "I don't care," said Nicky, "how stiff the price is. I shall pay it." And Vera replied that Desmond, in her own queer way, really was a rather distinguished painter. "Pay her," she said. "Pay her for goodness sake and have done with it. And if she wants to give you things don't let her."
And that second she screamed at me: "You lie, Nicky Stretton; you, and that girl! He's not Hutton he's Macartney!" But Macartney fired full in my face. It was Marcia's flying jump that made him miss me. Even though his very cartridge was one of hers that she always carried in her pockets, and must have been given to him the first thing, I don't think she had been prepared to see me killed.
In the second month inquiries would be made and the results communicated to Captain Drayton. In the third month the War Office knew nothing of the matter referred to by Captain Drayton. Drayton hadn't a hope. "We can't get it back, Nicky," he said. "I can," said Nicky, "I can get it back out of my head."
I never thought that would happen, anyway." "There was me." I was stung unbearably. "You must have known ever since the night I first came here that there was always me!" "Y-you," she stumbled oddly on it. "I couldn't tell you! Can't you see I was afraid, Nicky, that you might get killed for me, too?"
Frances listened and thought: "What children what babies they are, after all." If only this minute could be stretched out farther. "I mustn't," Nicky said. "I should spend hours in dalliance; and if a shell got him it would ruin my morale." Timmy, unhooked from Nicky's shoulder, lay limp in his arms. He lay on his back, in ecstasy, his legs apart, showing the soft, cream-white fur of his stomach.
At Cheltenham he had been home on leave; and it was not until this year that he had got his job at Woolwich teaching gunnery, while he waited for a bigger job in the Ordnance Department. Ferdie Cameron had always said that Frank Drayton would be worth watching. He would be part of the brains of the Army some day. Nicky watched him.
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