Pramlay received them in the pretty chintz drawing-room, which opened by French windows on the trim garden, with its croquet lawn, its tennis-net in the middle distance, and its remote rose alley lined with smart dahlias and flaming sunflowers. She had tried to shift the subject of conversation away from herself and was even managing successfully until Chen the father addressed her. “But Sir John?” he exclaimed. ” “I began to be afraid you might not come at all. It is always on his person. . He buys his own clothes, chooses his own company, makes his own way of living. After a certain amount of manœuvring, however, he was induced to crawl around, and in a few minutes came to stop again before a tall brightly-painted house, which seemed like an oasis of colour and assertive prosperity in a long dingy row. . This was the body of a man, apparently lifeless, and stretched upon a mattress, with his head bound up in a linen cloth, through which the blood had oosed. “My dear Miss Stanley, when I talked to you the other afternoon of work and politics and such-like things, my mind was all the time resenting it beyond measure. Some of the meetings are wonderful! Such earnest, beautiful women! Such deepbrowed men!. And there," he added, placing in his hands a heavy bag of money, and a pocketbook, "is a sum little short of fifteen thousand pounds.
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