His Grace — page 229: what you’re looking at

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HLS GRACE. 223 danger-flags; but I should have thought you might at least have told him what you and I overheard the other day. That, surely, would have opened his eyes.” ‘To what, my dear? To the agreeable circumstance that Lady Deverell and Miss St. George had noticed the very thing that he was anxious to force upon their notice, and that you had played the part which he was graciously pleased to assign to you to perfection ? ” ‘““No; only perhaps to the fact that he has treated me as no gentleman ought to treat a friend.” “Ah, that is another matter,” I said. “If you wanted me to mention that to him, you should have said so, and I’m not sure that I shouldn’t have obeyed your instructions. But I understood that you regarded him and his flirtations with absolute indifference.” “That only means that you are vexed with me, as well as with him, and that you won’t stir a finger to help either of us. I thought you were a better friend than that, Phil.” “Tam afriend like another,” I replied rather crossly (for I suppose the truth was that she had drawn a fairly accurate sketch of my mental condition); “only it seems to me that friendship implies some sort of reci- procity. I have told Hurstbourne over and over again that he will be an ass to propose to Miss St. George: what more can I do? If you think I should prove my friendship for you or for him by telling him that, in your opinion and mine, he has behaved very like a cad to you, Iam willing to go that length. It will bea little bit humiliating to have to do it, though.”’ “T daresay it would—and I daresay it wouldn’t an- — swer our purpose either,” agreed Nora, getting up. “All I know is that I, personally, have submitted to as Gomichoo CSG