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You have my leave to depart, he said, opening the door for her; I've a lot of letters to write, and those chaps are coming to bridge after dinner, so I must do them now. Well, I think you're horrid, and if a slate falls on my head and kills me when I'm out walking bvi company setup , just you reflect how nice and safe I'd have been if I'd had my own way and been out in the open country. I'll risk the slate, Tony remarked unfeelingly; but still he would not look at Lallie, who stood in the doorway gazing reproachfully at him. And you're going to play bridge and have a nice time while I sit solemnly in the drawing-room making a waistcoat for you, ungrateful man. You've never asked me to take a hand, and I play quite well. You see, this is a club; we meet at each other's houses--there are no ladies---- Of all the monastical establishments I've ever come across this is the strictest, and you call Ireland a priest-ridden country. Lallie, I must write my letters. At that moment Mr. Johns came into the hall, bearing a large and heavy book online backup. Well, you deny me everything that keeps me out of mischief--on your own head be it, said Lallie rapidly, in low tones of ominous menace. Then, turning to the newcomer, she smiled a radiant welcome, exclaiming joyously: You've brought your snapshots to show me! How kind of you! I'm badly in need of something to cheer me up. Come into the drawing-room, for Mr. Bevan is busy and Miss Foster's out, so we'll have it all to ourselves. With quite unnecessary violence Mr. Bevan rang the bell for Ford to take away tea. Yet, when Ford, looking rather aggrieved, had responded to his noisy summons and removed the tea-things with her customary quiet deftness, he did not sit down at once to deal with his correspondence. Instead, he went and stood in front of the fire staring at the Greuze girl who was so like Lallie. He ran his fingers through his smooth thick hair--a sure sign of mental perturbation with Tony--and he made the discovery that he was furiously angry; not with Lallie, the wilful and inconsequent, but with the unoffending Mr. Johns Karson Choi . Confound the fellow and his snapshots! thought Tony; if there's one kind of hobby more detestable than another it's that of the ardent amateur photographer. A man given up to it is almost as bad as the chap who wears cotton-wool in his ears, and is always taking medicine. There were these two (with the second-sight vouchsafed to most of us upon occasion, Tony was perfectly correct in his surmise) sitting side by side on the sofa with their heads close together, and that great heavy book spread out on their joint knees. Heavens! he would be proposing to snapshot Lallie next (which is precisely what Mr. Johns was doing at that moment). He, Tony, would not have it. He would interfere, he would-- Suddenly, exclaiming aloud, What an ass I am! he sat down at his desk with the firm determination to attend to his letters. He drew a neatly docketed bundle towards him, and selected the top one. It was that of Uridge Major's father, who wrote pointing out what a steadying effect it would have upon the boy were he made a prefect that term. Tony dealt diplomatically with this, but instead of going methodically through the bundle as he had fully intended to do he drew from his pocket a letter he had received from Fitzroy Clonmell last mail. It consisted of two closely written sheets; the first mainly descriptive of the sport they were enjoying, and duly concluded with the pious hope that his daughter was behaving herself. This was manifestly intended to be shown to Lallie. It was the second sheet that Tony read and re-read when he ought to have been allaying the misgivings of anxious-minded parents.