Capitolo 31
fixed look; but he responded with a some small sick-hidden embarrassment:
"Oh, didn't I say me so, didn't it do me? You were well then, a girl, clearly;
a some Miss Clifford. You got in to Chetwood. His/her people they live
in some place down there Tilgate nearby. At least, so I gathered from
what she told me."
Nevitt fixed very hard the eyes of the painter that tried without
the success, to seem unconscious.
"A novel!" he said, slowly, analyzing his/her man with deep interest.
"A novel, I can see. Young, rich, and beautiful. The my dear Cyril,
I only desire me to have had half Your fortune. That that a splendid opportunity and that that
a magnificent introduction! The beauty in anguish! A lady in trouble!
You comfort alone alone her in a tunnel for fifteen hours
to a stretching. Skies, that that a tete-a-tete! It made British convenience
never in front of allows a man such glorious opportunity for chivalrous
the devotion to a lady of family, face and the fortune?"
"Was it beautiful?" Guy asked, while immediately coming down to a more realistic
base.
Cyril hesitated a moment. "Well, yes", he responded, rather skinnily,
after a short break. "You are separately beautiful." And him closed
his/her mouth acute. But he had rather enough said.
When a man says that of a girl and nothing more, in an indifferent
expresses, as if it didn't interest twopence in him, you can perfectly be
sure in Your his/her own mind he is very deeply and seriously tormented.
"Is it young?" Guy continued.
"I should approximately say winds."
"Is it rich over the maximum dreams of the avarice?" Montague Nevitt
puts in, with a smile weakly cynic.
"Well, I don't know that", Cyril really he/she answered. "ME
doesn't have the least idea that she is, also. I and You had the other things
to think, you can be sure of which, it was able to up there so long in that
narrow space, and suffocating for lack of air, that minute investigations
in the genealogical trees of each other."
"We don't have genealogical tree", Guy inserted, with a bitter smile. "Then