"First Captain
Tremayne - "
"Now don't be after blaming old Ireland for Tremayne's shortcomings.
Tremayne's just a clumsy mannered Englishman."
"I am glad to know there is a distinction. Indeed I might have
perceived it for myself. In motives, of course, that distinction
is great indeed, and I hope that I am not slow to discover it, and
in your case to excuse it. I quite understand and even sympathise
with your feelings, General."
"I am glad of that now," said Sir Terence, who had understood
nothing of all this.
"Naturally," the Count pursued on a smooth, level note of amiability,
"when a man, himself no longer young, commits the folly of taking a
young and charming wife, he is to be forgiven when a natural anxiety
drives him to lengths which in another might be resented." He bowed
before the empurpling Sir Terence.
"Ye're a damned coxcomb, it seems," was the answering roar.
"Of course you would assume it. It was to be expected. I condone
it with the rest. And because I condone it, because I sympathise
with what in a man of your age and temperament must amount to an
affliction, I hasten to assure you upon my honour that so far as
I am concerned there are no grounds for your anxiety.
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