” “You don’t. ’ She looked up again and smiled sweetly. Gerald watched her perambulations in silence, his heart wrung. A smile flickered upon her lips as she glanced towards Brendon, who was very serious indeed. Nigel Ennison was he. He was a civil servant of some standing, and after a previous conversation upon aesthetics of a sententious, nebulous, and sympathetic character, he had sent her a small volume, which he described as the fruits of his leisure and which was as a matter of fact rather carefully finished verse. "You can generally understand that language. And as he gave back the portfolio to Sir Rowland he contrived, unobserved, to slip the precious document into his sleeve, and from thence into his pocket. Even the love of a mother does not sway him. It was rude and disrespectful to raise her eyes to him, her mother had warned. How clever she was, to fool everybody so easily! Not yet had any one suspected the truth: that she was, in a certain worldly sense, only four weeks old, that her every act had been written down on paper beforehand, and that her success lay in rigidly observing the rules which she herself had drafted to govern her conduct. In fact, the whole face had undergone a transformation. ‘But my poor Jacques is wounded and—’ ‘All taken care of,’ interrupted Hilary. She seemed just as stiff and shy as a girl ought to be, Lady Palsworthy thought, neither garrulous nor unready, and free from nearly all the heavy aggressiveness, the overgrown, overblown quality, the egotism and want of consideration of the typical modern girl. Pistols and pictures? Now it fair goes agin’ me nature to act rough with a lady, but you’ll come along of me at once.
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