A. E. W. Mason

Name: The Four Feathers — VIII: Lieutenant Sutch Is Tempted to Lie
Author: A. E. W. Mason

The Four Feathers — VIII: Lieutenant Sutch Is Tempted to Lie (1902)

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“The Four Feathers — VIII: Lieutenant Sutch Is Tempted to Lie”, published in 1902, is a work by A. E. W. Mason. It explores elements such as Durrance, Adair and Sutch.

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — VIII: Lieutenant Sutch Is Tempted to Lie (1902)

“ For there had grown up within him a jealousy on behalf of Harry Feversham as strong as a mother's for a favourite second son. He had nursed with a most pleasurable anticipation a hope that, in the end, Harry would come back to all that he once had owned, like a rethroned king. He stared at Durrance and saw the hope stricken. Durrance looked the man of courage which his record proved him to be, and Lieutenant Sutch had his theory of women. "Brute courage—they make a god of it." ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — VIII: Lieutenant Sutch Is Tempted to Lie (1902)

“ Durrance did not answer that suggestion directly. He watched the carriages drive past, he listened to the chatter and the laughter of the people about him, his eyes were refreshed by the women in their light-coloured frocks; and all the time his slow mind was working toward the lame expression of his philosophy. Mrs. Adair turned to him with a slight impatience in the end.
"Of what are you thinking?" she asked.
"That women suffer much more than men when the world goes wrong with them," he answered, and the answer was rather a question than a definite assertion. "I know very little, of course. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — VIII: Lieutenant Sutch Is Tempted to Lie (1902)

“ Neither the lieutenant's present embarrassment nor his previous hesitation escaped Durrance's notice.
"We met at Broad Place," said he. "I wish you to give me news of my friend Feversham. Why was his engagement with Miss Eustace broken off? Where is he now?"
The lieutenant's eyes gleamed for a moment with satisfaction. He had always been doubtful whether Durrance was aware of Harry's fall into disgrace. Durrance plainly did not know.
"There is only one person in the world, I believe," said Sutch, "who can answer both your questions." ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — VIII: Lieutenant Sutch Is Tempted to Lie (1902)

“ What has become of Harry?"
Mrs. Adair shrugged her shoulders.
"I do not know. I have met no one who does know. I do not think that I have met any one who has even seen him since that time. He must have left England."
Durrance pondered on this mysterious disappearance. It was Harry Feversham, then, whom he had seen upon the pier as the Channel boat cast off. The man with the troubled and despairing face was, after all, his friend.
"And Miss Eustace?" he asked after a pause, with a queer timidity. "She has married since?"
Again Mrs. Adair took her time to reply. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — VIII: Lieutenant Sutch Is Tempted to Lie (1902)

“ But I think women gather up into themselves what they have been through much more than we do. To them what is past becomes a real part of them, as much a part of them as a limb; to us it's always something external, at the best the rung of a ladder, at the worst a weight on the heel. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — VIII: Lieutenant Sutch Is Tempted to Lie (1902)

“ You will find him a broken man. The estates are let, and Ethne is now living with her father in a little mountain village in Donegal."
Mrs. Adair had not looked at Durrance while she spoke. She kept her eyes fixed steadily in front of her, and indeed she spoke without feeling on one side or the other, but rather like a person constraining herself to speech because speech was a necessity. Nor did she turn to look at Durrance when she had done.
"So she has lost everything?" said Durrance.
"She still has a home in Donegal," returned Mrs. Adair. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — VIII: Lieutenant Sutch Is Tempted to Lie (1902)

“ But put it this way: Women look backwards, we look ahead; so misfortune hits them harder, eh?"
Mrs. Adair answered in her own way. She did not expressly agree. But a certain humility became audible in her voice.
"The mountain village at which Ethne is living," she said in a low voice, "is called Glenalla. A track strikes up towards it from the road halfway between Rathmullen and Ramelton." She rose as she finished the sentence and held out her hand. "Shall I see you?"
"You are still in Hill Street?" said Durrance. "I shall be for a time in London."
Mrs. Adair raised her eyebrows. ”

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