Part 37 (2/2)
”Oh, well,” said Mrs Halliday ”In such a matter, one cannot meddle unless it is certain one's advice would be well received We o Perhaps the Winters do not ”
”I think Jake means to stay until the o until he is ready”
Mrs Halliday frowned ”Ji Sometimes he vexes me, but in a sense it is our duty to protect hio to bed”
CHAPTER IX
JIM IS LEFT OUT
The sun shone on the terrace at Dryhol background for the group about the tea-table A row of dahlias close by hung their heads after a night's frost, a gardener eeping dead leaves frorass, and the beeches round the tarn were nearly bare
Bernard took a cup fro shadows that stretched across the lawn, indicated a sundial on a pillar
”In another few one and it warnsof Latin
”I wonder why they carve such melancholy lines on sundials,” somebody remarked
”Perhaps there is a certain futility about the custo, and we others in the shado our day is done I do not think I a proves the Latin motto true Then it is hardly possible we shall have tea outside again, and we cannot tell if all will gather round the table when suan to talk about a neighbor who had died the day before ”Alan Raine will be lish type,” she said ”Conscientious and public-spirited One could depend on hiraceful speech I have not known his equal for opening a village club or a flower show Then the hunt ball was always a success since he ood ato be rereed and turned to Carrie ”You have heard our notion of an English gentleman's duty What do you think about it?”
”It is not my notion If I were a man, and rich, I should like to leave a deeper mark”
”Ah,” said Bernard, ”you come froht with blizzards on the snowy trail and drive their shafts through ground the sun never land and teach us to hustle by altering the landscape and destroying our old land to be said for the others who carry out quiet duties conscientiously”
”Oh, yes,” said Carrie, with a sparkle in her eyes ”But I'd sooner have cornfields running across a drained ood apologist,” Bernard said to Ji the turn Bernard had given the talk, asked: ”Who will take the otter-hounds?”
”The matter's important and cannot be decided rashly,” Bernard replied with soht fill the post What do you think, Lance?”
”The choice lies between Langrigg and Dryholht to keep the hounds Joseph did so”
”I aoodan idle hed ”Lance's shot was fair When I first ca and I don't see why I shouldn't play now and then” He paused and his look was serious when he resulish custolish fast, but perhaps that is not quite right I begin to feel I a s froot soot the estate”
”I don't know if keeping the hounds is a duty,” Jiame All the same, I think I'd like the job”