I suppose we may say that Melfort has got off
easily, said thelawyer. Disillusion came in the first year of marriage.
Then had come a final recklessness, sowild that she
was afraid to approach her husband again. And knows no pageant save the pipes and
shawmsOf his proud spirit. I could imagine neat Horatian tagscoming ripely from his
lips.
God knows how he ever came to be attracted by
her!
Nigel would never permit himself to be carried
bythe nurse up those stairs.
She paid in the cheque and had once again an easy
mind. For a second I felt an oppression as of something tobe resisted.
A fourth man joined the group in the corner. The
newsboys shouting was loud in Pall Mall. Adam felt himselfsmirched and grubby,
fallen suddenly out of a clean world into themire.
She was neat-handed and tookpains with the forgery,
and when it was done she breathed freely. A fourth man joined the group in the
corner. All the grace had faded from the Cotswoldvalleys.
He drops out of His Majestys service and his life
isruined. She gave her evidence ina voice like music and wept most becomingly. The
old man, who had not listened very closely, took up his tale. And now thishappy
activity, this happier companionship, was gone for ever. And now thishappy activity,
this happier companionship, was gone for ever. The house was too well-bred
anddisdainful to seek to captivate.
I daresay Camilla mayhave outrun the
constable.
But now he found that by some happy magic the two
memories hadintertwined themselves. The newsboys shouting was loud in Pall Mall. If
only she had not meddledwith the wretched cheque!
He had settled a largepart of his income on
Camilla, but he had enough left to supportexistence. The house was too well-bred
anddisdainful to seek to captivate. It was a chapel, but, I swear, a more paganplace
than when it had been workroom or smoking-room.
He put the thought ofthe place from him in
distaste, for it awoke an unavailingbitterness.
He must have been an uncommon cleverfellow. It was
like avolcanic eruption in ground where no volcano had ever been dreamedof. Leithen
washis counsel, and I believe did his best to get him to change
hismind.
Years, no doubt, turn our eyes inward and abate
ourheroics, but not a trifle of two or three. I was roused by Giffens voice
discoursing of his books.
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