"I shall quite
forget that I set out to make a call if I linger longer in your charming
society."
"But I must ask you to delay your call for the present. I shall greatly
value your company down the road a little way. It is a trifling favor,
and you are a man of delightful courtesy."
Chauvenet twisted his mustache reflectively. His mind had been busy
seeking means of turning the meeting to his own advantage. He had met
Armitage at quite the least imaginable spot in the world for an encounter
between them; and he was not a man who enjoyed surprises. He had taken
care that the exposure of Armitage at Washington should be telegraphed to
every part of the country, and put upon the cables. He had expected
Armitage to leave Washington, but he had no idea that he would turn up at
a fashionable resort greatly affected by Washingtonians and only a
comparatively short distance from the capital. He was at a great
disadvantage in not knowing Armitage's plans and strategy; his own mind
was curiously cunning, and his reasoning powers traversed oblique lines.
He was thus prone to impute similar mental processes to other people;
simplicity and directness he did not understand at all.
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