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CHAPTER FOUR
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"Tell me all," said Hamilton Beamish.
George told him all. The unfortunate young man was still looking licked to a splinter. For several hours he had been wandering distractedly through the streets of New York, and now he had crawled into Hamilton Beamish's apartment in the hope that a keener mind than his own might be able to detect in the encompassing1 clouds a silver lining3 which he himself had missed altogether.
"Let me get this clear," said Hamilton Beamish. "You called at the house?"
"Yes."
"And the butler refused to admit you?"
"Yes."
Hamilton Beamish regarded his stricken friend compassionately4.
"My poor cloth-headed George," he said, "you appear to have made a complete mess of things. By being impetuous you have ruined everything. Why could you not have waited and let me introduce you into this house in a normal and straightforward6 fashion, in my capacity of an old friend of the family? I would have started you right. As things are, you have allowed yourself to take on the semblance7 of an outcast."
"But when old Waddington invited me to dinner—actually invited me to dinner...."
"You should have kicked him in the eye and made good your escape," said Hamilton Beamish firmly. "Surely, after all that I said to you about Sigsbee H. Waddington, you were under no illusion that his patronage8 would make you popular in the home? Sigsbee H. Waddington is one of those men who have only to express a liking9 for anybody to cause their wives to look on him as something out of the Underworld. Sigsbee H. Waddington could not bring the Prince of Wales home to dinner and get away with it. And when he drags in and lays on the mat a specimen—I use the word in the kindliest spirit—like you, and does so, moreover, five minutes before the start of a formal dinner-party, thus upsetting the seating arrangements and leading to black thoughts in the kitchen, can you blame his wife for not
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