Street Called
章节目录
共 79 题- THE STREET CALLED STRAIGHT
- A NOVEL
- BY
- BASIL KING
- Published by Arrangement with Harper & Brothers
- THE STREET CALLED STRAIGHT
- II
- III
- IV
- She nodded. "I think I've heard so."
- Guion looked up sharply. "Has _she_ got anything to do with it?"
- VI
- She raised her eyebrows in some surprise. "You don't see--?"
- She handed him his cup. "Isn't that a very queer way to lend money?"
- VII
- The question took him unawares. "I--I don't remember."
- VIII
- He raised himself stiffly into a sitting posture. "Would _you_?"
- Olivia kept on writing. "How long have you known?"
- Olivia wrote energetically. "What's he doing?"
- IX
- She confronted him with one of her imperious looks. "Why?"
- She opened her eyes innocently. "I'm sure I can't imagine."
- She looked at him wonderingly. "Let--who--go to the deuce?"
- XI
- He nodded thoughtfully. "I see."
- He jumped to his feet. "Their ways and traditions be--!"
- XII
- XIII
- She colored hotly. "That you--what?"
- He laughed. "That won't matter. It's how it'll look."
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- She looked at him mildly. "What did she say about him?"
- She astonished him by saying, simply: "I think so, too."
- Ashley bounded. "Who? That--that cowboy!"
- He pretended to laugh. "What a pretty distinction!"
- His lip curled. "So distant as to be out of sight."
- Ashley nodded again. "You have no objection, I presume, to that?"
- XVII
- Temple let that pass. "Been up to look at the great man?"
- Peter nodded. "Just come from there."
- Davenant turned away. "I wasn't in a hurry."
- Peter looked blank. "Olivia and--_me_?"
- OLIVIA GUION.
- XVIII
- She delivered her message, to which he replied, "He can come."
- The question startled her. "Marry him? Who?"
- Ashley was startled. "Chance? What chance? Who?"
- XIX
- Ashley turned quickly. "Off? Where?"
- XX
- She looked at him hardly. "And what has it all got to do with me?"
- She was startled. "Who? I? En voilà une idée!"
- He hedged. "Miss Guion likes him."
- He colored. "I had to--about something."
- He tried to take this humorously. "Oh no, madame--"
- XXI
- Ashley looked blank. "I haven't noticed it--"
- Olivia braced herself to say, "And I hope it's not with me."
- XXII
- Olivia looked up. "He didn't tell you? Who?"
- He looked mystified. "But he's out there in Michigan--"
- XXIII
- She replied, still absently: "I'm not sure that I do."
- Again some minutes went by before she said: "Is it as bad as all that?"
- He shook his head, still without looking up. "Thanks; no."
- His face brightened. "Did he, by Jove?"
- He jumped up. "I say! You're a good pal. I shall never forget it."
- Drusilla tried to laugh. "Eh, bien? as she'd say herself."
- Olivia's eyes were still lifted to Davenant's. "Is that true?"
- XXIV
- There was a smile on his lips as he said: "Don't you infer anything?"
- She shook her head. "Not to me."
- XXV
- Again he almost jumped from his chair. "Going, too? Going where?"
- THE END
- End of Project Gutenberg's The Street Called Straight, by Basil King