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"One only, but he talks of his wife in a revolting way.
"One only, but he talks of his wife in a revolting way.
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She'll think I mean some one else.
Now she's going out. What a thoroughly objectionable couple she and The
Dancing Master make! Which reminds me. Do you suppose they'll ever dance
together? "
"Wait and see. I don't envy her the conversation of The Dancing
Master--loathly man. His wife ought to be up here before long. "
"Do you know anything about him? "
"Only what he told me. It may be all a fiction. He married a girl bred
in the country, I think, and, being an honorable, chivalrous soul, told
me that he repented his bargain and sent her to her mother as often as
possible--a person who has lived in the Doon since the memory of man
and goes to Mussoorie when other people go Home. The wife is with her at
present. So he says. "
'Babies?
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"One only, but he talks of his wife in a revolting way. I hated him for
it. He thought he was being epigrammatic and brilliant. "
"That is a vice peculiar to men. I dislike him because he is generally
in the wake of some girl, disappointing the Eligibles. He will persecute
May Holt no more, unless I am much mistaken. "
"No. I think Mrs. Delville may occupy his attention for a while. "
"Do you suppose she knows that he is the head of a family? "
"Not from his lips. He swore me to eternal secrecy. Wherefore I tell
you. Don't you know that type of man? "
"Not intimately, thank goodness! As a general rule, when a man begins to
abuse his wife to me, I find that the Lord gives me wherewith to answer
him according to his folly; and we part with a coolness between us.
Now she's going out. What a thoroughly objectionable couple she and The
Dancing Master make! Which reminds me. Do you suppose they'll ever dance
together? "
"Wait and see. I don't envy her the conversation of The Dancing
Master--loathly man. His wife ought to be up here before long. "
"Do you know anything about him? "
"Only what he told me. It may be all a fiction. He married a girl bred
in the country, I think, and, being an honorable, chivalrous soul, told
me that he repented his bargain and sent her to her mother as often as
possible--a person who has lived in the Doon since the memory of man
and goes to Mussoorie when other people go Home. The wife is with her at
present. So he says. "
'Babies?
'
"One only, but he talks of his wife in a revolting way. I hated him for
it. He thought he was being epigrammatic and brilliant. "
"That is a vice peculiar to men. I dislike him because he is generally
in the wake of some girl, disappointing the Eligibles. He will persecute
May Holt no more, unless I am much mistaken. "
"No. I think Mrs. Delville may occupy his attention for a while. "
"Do you suppose she knows that he is the head of a family? "
"Not from his lips. He swore me to eternal secrecy. Wherefore I tell
you. Don't you know that type of man? "
"Not intimately, thank goodness! As a general rule, when a man begins to
abuse his wife to me, I find that the Lord gives me wherewith to answer
him according to his folly; and we part with a coolness between us.
