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"Well, can't Nash also come to call on Julia? That's just what I want that she should see him." Peter Sherringham came humanely to his kinswoman's assistance. "A better way perhaps will be for them to meet under my auspices at my 'dramatic tea. This will enable me to return one favour for another. If Mr.
"Ars celare artem," Basil Dashwood jocosely dropped. "You must first have the art to hide," said Sherringham, wondering a little why Miriam didn't introduce her young friend to him. She was, however, both then and later perfectly neglectful of such cares, never thinking, never minding how other people got on together.
There was no kissing, but there was cousinship in the air, of a conscious, living kind, as Gabriel Nash doubtless quickly noted, hovering for a moment outside the group. Biddy said nothing to Peter Sherringham, but there was no flatness in a silence which heaved, as it were, with the fairest physiognomic portents.
Explanations, on one side and the other, were demanded and produced; from which it appeared that the two parties had been in some degree at cross-purposes. The day before Lady Agnes and her companions travelled to Paris Sherringham had gone to London for forty-eight hours on private business of the ambassador's, arriving, on his return by the night-train, only early that morning.
"Oh don't tell us that: it's to escape from that!" pleaded Mrs. Rooth. "I'm very sure your daughter will escape from that," Peter Sherringham was moved to interpose. "Oh if you could help her!" said the lady with a world of longing. "She has certainly all the qualities that strike the eye," Peter returned. "You're most kind, sir!" Mrs. Rooth declared, elegantly draping herself.
How, further, shall we exactly measure for him Sherringham felt the discomfort of the advantage Miriam had of him the advantage of her presenting herself in a light that rendered any passion he might entertain an implication of duty as well as of pleasure?
"It's to be supposed that any one Nick brings to lunch with us !" Lady Agnes rather coldly sighed. "Ah Grace, with your tremendous standard!" her son said; while Peter Sherringham explained to his sister that Mr. Nash was Nick's new Mentor or oracle whom, moreover, she should see if she would come and have tea with him.
Five years before Nick Dormer went up to be questioned by the electors of Crockhurst Peter Sherringham had appeared before a board of examiners who let him off much less easily, though there were also some flattering prejudices in his favour; such influences being a part of the copious, light, unembarrassing baggage with which each of the young men began life.
Sherringham said he would see her home he wanted to talk to her and she must walk away with him. "And it's understood then she may come back," he added to Madame Carré. "It's my affair of course. You'll take an interest in her for a month or two; she'll sit at your feet." The old actress had an admirable shrug. "Oh I'll knock her about she seems stout enough!"
"Thank you; I'll try and do better to-morrow," Miriam professed very sweetly. "You do better every minute!" Sherringham returned and he looked at their hostess in support of this declaration. "She's finding her voice," Madame Carré acknowledged. "She's finding a friend!" Mrs. Rooth threw in.
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