. The voice in the rice . w^ LORD NAIRN LEAVES HISCHAIR AT HOME i \\Vlii. XV. Sir Peter and I started home at once,but Mr. Santee Moore remained withLord Nairn to send out messages toMr. Shirleys friends and relatives andto make a first disposition of the had not gone far when I found thatmy mind had changed materially on twopoints. I was upset almost to the pointof nausea to think that I had killed aman, and I no longer thought of SirPeter as the fiend incarnate. I pitiedhim rather, he was so terribly agitatedand horrorstruck. And it was not un-til I had got him home that he was ablet
. The voice in the rice . w^ LORD NAIRN LEAVES HISCHAIR AT HOME i \\Vlii. XV. Sir Peter and I started home at once,but Mr. Santee Moore remained withLord Nairn to send out messages toMr. Shirleys friends and relatives andto make a first disposition of the had not gone far when I found thatmy mind had changed materially on twopoints. I was upset almost to the pointof nausea to think that I had killed aman, and I no longer thought of SirPeter as the fiend incarnate. I pitiedhim rather, he was so terribly agitatedand horrorstruck. And it was not un-til I had got him home that he was ableto think and speak lucidly. Here, how-ever, he pulled himself together, dranka brandy-and-water, talked privatelywith Lady Moore for a quarter of anhour, and at last called me into hisstudy. What has happened, Richard, hesaid, has more beneath than the first place, we must exonerateShirley in our own minds. Not entirely,but in this way: we must remember thathe was weak, a lover, and, I have oftenthought, more under Lord Nairns in-[io8] I J^i LORD NAIRNS CHAIR
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