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ust at the centre," she interrupted, "that you keep remarkably still, and only in the suburbs that you feel the rage? I count on dear Theign's doing nothing in the least foolish--!" "Ah, but he can't have chucked everything for nothing," Lord John sharply returned; "and wherever you place him in the rumpus he can't not meet somehow, hang it, such an assault on his character as a great nobleman and good citizen." "It's his luck to have become with the public of the newspapers the scapegoat-in-chief: for the sins, so-called, of a lot of people!" Lady Sandgate inconclusively sighed. "Yes," Lord John concluded for her, "the mercenary millions on whose traffic in their trumpery values--when they're so lucky as to have any!--_this_ isn't a patch!" "Oh, there are cases _and_ cases: situations and responsibilities so intensely differ!"--that appeared on the whole, for her ladyship, the moral to be gathered. "Of course everything differs, all round, from everything," Lord John went on; "and who in the world knows anything of his own case but the victim of circumstances exposing himself, for the highest and purest motives, to be literally torn to pieces?" "Well," said Lady Sandgate as, in her strained suspense, she freshly consulted her bracelet watch, "I hope he isn't already torn--if you tell me you've been to Kitty's." "Oh, he was all right so far: he had arrived and gone out again," the young man explained, "as Lady Imber hadn't been at home." "Ah cool Kitty!" his hostess sighed again--but diverted, as she spoke, by the reappearance of her butler, this time positively preceding Lord Theign, whom she met, when he presently stood before her, his garb of travel exchanged for consummate afternoon dress, with yearning tenderness and compassionate curiosity. "At last, dearest friend--what a joy! But with Kitty not at home to receive you?" That young woman's parent made light of it for the indulged creature's sake. "Oh I knew my Kitty! I dressed and I find her at five-thirty." To which he added as he only took in further, without expression, Lord John: "But Bender, who came there before my arrival--he hasn't tried for me here?" It was a point on which Lord John himself could at least be expressive. "I met him at the club at luncheon; he had had your letter--but for which chance, my dear man, I should have known nothing. You'll see him all right at this house; but I'm glad, if I may say so, Theign," the speaker
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