‘You will not guess again?’
‘No, no, I am quite out of ideas. And as these things
should always be treated as matters of business, I'll just draw up a memorandum
of our arrangement. He had been for months without music of the character he loved—and he
dared not play any of it!
McClintock, after the music began, left the piano and sat in a corner just beyond
the circle of light cast by the lamp. ‘She means thanks to you, General,’ Gerald translated automatically, forgetful
of his old commander’s fiery temper. “You are of the genus obstinate,” he said. And that’s why I’m at your service. ”
“Is it necessary,” he said, “for me to tell you——”
“Stop, please,” she said firmly. So that as she saw
him she remarked to herself very faintly but definitely, “Oh, golly!” and set up a
campaign of avoidance that Mr. It was as if she had grown right past her father into
something older and of infinitely wider outlook, as if he had always been
unsuspectedly a flattened figure, and now she had discovered him from the other
side. ”
“It seems so—so unworthy”—she picked among her phrases “of the noble
love you give—”
She stopped, through the difficulty she found in expressing herself. Then her fingers moved. “If they matter to you, they
matter. The
necessity of defending herself and assuming a confident and secure tone did
much to dispell the sense of being exposed and indefensible in a huge dingy
world that abounded in sinister possibilities. "
"Very interesting," said the Chinaman, with a wave of his tapering hand toward
the roofs.
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