I tell you what, Thames," he added, flinging himself carelessly into a chair, "I'd give my right hand,—and that's no light offer for a carpenter's 'prentice,—if that little minx were half as fond of me as she is of you. ” He made a step toward her. ’ ‘What if she goes back to Charvill?’ demanded Roding. “She’s going to have some sort of meal with the Widgetts down the Avenue, and go up with them. He pictured himself visiting the girl in this shabby little home of her aunt’s—she had told him that it was shabby—and he recalled that delicious little smile with which she would surely greet him, a smile which seemed to be a matter of the eyes as well as the lips. Here was a poor half-naked creature, with a straw crown on his head, and a wooden sceptre in his hand, seated on the ground with all the dignity of a monarch on his throne. She glanced at the soft-ticking clock with the exposed brass pendulum upon the white marble mantel, and made a rapid calculation. Since Mary predeceased Jarvis, Nicholas could scarcely argue himself to be my brother’s next of kin. One’s sense of proportion, battered out of all shape in the daily life of cities, reasserts itself.
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