The Outcry

elcome and both hands out, she had at once gone

that has to expand and revolve before

showed, to accommodate. “Ah,

rankly interested in the place and its contents that his friend could only have taken

too much

at any rate my man did. I like to do business before —” But his seque

ked it up. “Before

nsely genial, but a queer, quaint, rough-edged

pent itself on his large high person as he consented, with less of demonstration but more of attention, to

elicity, nature, the perverse or interfering old fairy at his cradle-side — whatever the ministering power might have been — had simply overlooked and neglected his vast wholly-shaven face, which thus showed not so much for perfunctorily scamped as for not treated, as for neither formed nor fondled nor finished, at all. Nothing seemed to have been done for it but what the razor and the sponge, the tooth-brush and the looking-glass could officiously do; it had in short resisted any possibly finer attrition at the hands of fifty years of offered experience. It had developed on the lines, if lines they could be called, of the mere scoure

n of her time and the greatest of all Lawrences, no matter whose;

e familiar fact of his being “made up to” had never had such specia

ch’ for her? Well, Mr. Bender,” she smilingly

riminated —“do you want

so much so that your telegram made me at onc

d kind even while, turning his back upon her, he moved off to look at one of the several, the famous Dedborough pictures — stray specimens, by every presumption, lost a little in the whole bright bigness. “

rity —“and you must really understand that you can’t ha

re. “I guess it’s a bogus Cuyp — but I know

an, and as solid as he’s proud; so that if you came down under a different impression —!” Well, she could only exhale the fo

on an understanding that I should find my friend Lord John, and that Lord Theign would, on his intro

she quickly interpos

rmed you were here, and struck with the coincidence of my being myself presently due,”

to anguish,” she almost passionately prote

that was worth a scene with so charming and so hungry a woman. “Well, if it’s a questi

he only yearns for interviews, and you may have,” Lad

t be there t

oon as I r

st him little to say —

he vow. “Only meanwhile t

t where all this time,” Mr.

e and simply dressed, whose brow showed clear even under the heavy shade of a large hat surmounted with big black bows and feathers. Her eyes had vaguely questioned those of her elder, who at once replied t

she returned, “and whom I’m glad to see. Lord John,” she explained to his waiting friend, “is detained a moment in the park, open today

wasn’t the man to take precipitately; though his big useful smi

less humour perhaps, but more play. “We

ny rate persisted. “With a b

es,” Lady Sandgate said as to foresta

ea?” he pursued, almo

ratively candid and literal. “

l, Lady Grace, I’m after pictures, but I ta

andgate at once said, “

dded to Mr. Bender; “take your ease and your time. Everything’s open and visib

” But present to him was the richest corner of the pasture, which he could

tive opened, the quarter of the saloon to which we have

rty in a row, hey?” And he was already off