A. E. W. Mason

Name: The Summons — IX: Enter the Heroine in Anything but White Satin
Author: A. E. W. Mason

The Summons — IX: Enter the Heroine in Anything but White Satin (1920)

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“The Summons — IX: Enter the Heroine in Anything but White Satin”, published in 1920, is a work by A. E. W. Mason. It explores elements such as Dennis Brown, Hillyard and Chichester.

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A. E. W. Mason, The Summons — IX: Enter the Heroine in Anything but White Satin (1920)

“ Harold Jupp was a queer-looking person with a long, thin, brown face, and a straight, wide mouth too close to a small pointed chin. Harold Jupp carried about with him a very aura of horses. Horses were his only analogy; he thought in terms of horses; and perhaps, as a consequence, although he could give no reasons for his judgments upon people, those judgments as a rule were conspicuously sound. Jupp shook hands with Hillyard, and turned to the student at the window.
"Well, Joan, how have you lived without us? Aren't you bored with your large, beautiful self?" ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Summons — IX: Enter the Heroine in Anything but White Satin (1920)

“ Harold Jupp shook his head doubtfully.
"Never sure about flat-racing. Jumping's the only thing for the poor and honest backer."
Joan Wentworth looked about her regretfully.
"I understand now why you have all come back so early."
Miranda Brown ran impulsively to her. She was as pretty as a picture, and spoke as a rule in a series of charming explosions. At this moment she was deeply wronged.
"Yes, Joan," she cried. "They would go! And I know that I have backed the winner for the last race."
Dennis Brown contemplated his wife with amazement.
"Miranda, you are crazy," he cried. "He can't win." ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Summons — IX: Enter the Heroine in Anything but White Satin (1920)

“ Dennis Brown was too seriously occupied to waste his time upon Miranda's enthusiasms.
"It's a pity we can't get the evening papers," he said gloomily. "I should dearly like to see the London forecasts for to-morrow."
"I brought some evening papers down with me," said Hillyard, and "Did you?" cried Sir Chichester, and his eyes flashed with interest. But Harold Jupp was already out of the room. He came back from the hall with a bundle of newspapers in his hands, pink and white and yellow and green. He carried them all relentlessly past Sir Chichester to the table in the window. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Summons — IX: Enter the Heroine in Anything but White Satin (1920)

“ Sir Chichester, with larger mother-of-pearl buttons on his fawn-coloured overcoat than ever decorated even a welshing bookmaker on Brighton Downs, led Hillyard up to Lady Splay.
"My wife. Millie, Mr. Hillyard."
Hints of Lady Splay's passion for the last new person had prepared Hillyard for a lady at once gushing and talkative. He was surprised to find himself shaking hands with a pleasant, unassuming woman of distinct good looks. Hillyard was presented to Dennis and Miranda Brown, a young couple two years married, and to Mr. Harold Jupp, a man of Hillyard's age. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Summons — IX: Enter the Heroine in Anything but White Satin (1920)

“ Once more the company laughed at Sir Chichester's apology for his foible.
Lady Splay turned to Hillyard.
"And who is the ingenious man who discovered this way of keeping the peace at Senga?"
Hillyard suddenly hesitated.
"A great friend of mine," he answered with his eyes on Millie Splay's face. "He was with me at Oxford. A Captain Luttrell."
But it was clear almost at once that the name had no associations in Lady Splay's mind. She preferred to entertain her friends in the country than to live in town. She knew little of what gossip might run the streets of London ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Summons — IX: Enter the Heroine in Anything but White Satin (1920)

“ Hillyard. I am Joan Whitworth, and make my home here with my aunt. They are all at Goodwood, of course, but they should be back at any moment."
She rang the bell and ordered tea. Somewhere Hillyard realised he had seen the girl before. She was about eighteen years old, he guessed, very pretty, with a wealth of fair hair deepening into brown, dark blue eyes shaded with long dark lashes and a colour of health abloom in her cheeks.
"You have been in Egypt, uncle tells me."
"In the Sudan," Hillyard corrected. "I have been shooting for eight months." ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Summons — IX: Enter the Heroine in Anything but White Satin (1920)

“ Unless I see my name in real print every morning, I have all day the uncomfortable sensation that I am not properly dressed."
Millie Splay and the others round the table, with the exception of one person, laughed. ”

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