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I could tell, though I was sitting right in front. I knew what their faces were like, and what they were thinking." "One must do right, Nollie, and not mind." "Yes; but what is right? It's not right for me to hurt you, and I'm not going to." Pierson understood all at once that it was useless to try and move her. "What are you going to do, then?" "I suppose I shall go to Kestrel to-morrow.
Your Dad forgot that he's a public figure, and must expect to be damned accordingly. But though you've cut and run, he'll resign all the same, Nollie." "Oh, no!" cried Noel. George shook his head. "Yes, he'll resign, you'll see, he's got no worldly sense; not a grain." "Then I shall have spoiled his life, just as if oh, no!" "Let's sit down here. I must be back at eleven."
The words, in that delicate spurning voice, absolutely staggered George; but he said quickly: "Out of the question, Nollie; impossible! What are you thinking of?" "Daddy." The words: "D n Daddy!" rose to his teeth; he bit them off, and said: "Bless him! We shall have to see to all that. Do you really want to keep it from him?
"I know; but Daddy was getting bored, weren't you, dear? This is Cyril Morland." Pierson shook the young man's hand. "Daddy, your nose is burnt!" "My dear; I know." "I can give you some white stuff for it. You have to sleep with it on all night. Uncle and Auntie both use it." "Nollie!" "Well, Eve says so. If you're going to bathe, Cyril, look out for that current!"
The day after that silent outburst of emotion in the drawing-room was a Sunday. And, obeying the longing awakened overnight to be as good as she could to her father; Noel said to him: "Would you like me to come to Church?" "Of course, Nollie." How could he have answered otherwise?
They might just as well not be." "They mean pensions, as a rule," said Thirza calmly. "Thirza, that is cynical; besides, it doesn't affect this case. I can't bear to think of my little Nollie giving herself for a moment which may come to nothing, or may turn out the beginning of an unhappy marriage. Who is this boy what is he? I know nothing of him. How can I give her to him it's impossible!
"I couldn't bear to think of Nollie giving herself hastily, like that; they had only known each other three weeks. It was very hard for me, Leila. And then suddenly he was sent to the front." Resentment welled up in Leila. The kill-Joys! As if life didn't kill joy fast enough!
But personally I don't think she can make good on her own." Gratian, whose Pragmatism was not yet fully baked, responded doubtfully: "No, I don't think she can. And if she could I'm not sure. But isn't Pragmatism a perfectly beastly word, George? It has no sense of humour in it at all." "It is a bit thick, and in the hands of the young, deuced likely to become Prigmatism; but not with Nollie."
I don't think it's much to ask, when perhaps I'll never have any more of him again." Thirza slipped her hand through the girl's arm. "I understand," she said. "Only, Nollie, suppose, when all this is over, and we breathe and live naturally once more, you found you'd made a mistake?" Noel shook her head. "I haven't."
The loud popping of a cork roused him. "What are you doing, Nollie?" Noel rose with a flushed face, holding in one hand a glass of champagne, in the other a biscuit. "You're to take this; and I'm going to have some myself." "My dear," said Pierson bewildered; "it's not yours." "Drink it; Daddy! Don't you know that Leila would never forgive me if I let you go home looking like that.
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