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The meeting took place on Bootle Sands, and, to show Major Brooks's temper, on Captain Carmichael firing in the air, he exclaimed: "D it, why don't you fire at me we did not come here for child's play!" In those days duelling was very prevalent, and small words brought out pistols and coffins for two.
"My remarks were strictly confined to the question of your marriage. I know you far too well, Iris, to permit you to go back to Bootle to be lectured and browbeaten by your uncle. I have never seen him, but, from all accounts, he is a rather remarkable person. He likes to have his own way, irrespective of other folks' feelings. I am a good guesser, Iris.
But you told me I could kiss you! And I tell you again now. I believe it is usual for men to kiss their sisters-in-law? Bootle. Alice, then you are mine, after all. Alice. James! Now I am quite, quite happy. And James you WILL remember in future that I am Miss ALICE Prendergast? My dear, I shall only be able to remember that you are The Future Mrs Bootle!
If she is not an actress of sufficient calibre to ensure this, she must do the best she can by starting abruptly and putting her hand to her throat. Mr Bootle! In love with Jane! Jane. My dear! The man who took me down to dinner! Well! What will you say? Well, really I this is Mr Bootle! Fancy! Was that a ring? I know his ring, I mean I know Dear, I think I will go and lie down. I have a headache.
"Yes, on board the steamer. We sailed from Southampton, and had little else to talk of during the voyage. But, of course, you cannot understand. Among my fellow-passengers were your uncle and Mr. Bulmer." Iris had long relinquished any hope of communicating with Bootle until the present deadlock in the operations of the two armies was a thing of the past.
"For just exactly the sime reason," cried the excited Moses, hammering on the table with both hands, "for just exactly the sime reason that he should communicate with Messrs. 'Anbury and Bootle of Paternoster Row and with Miss Gridley's 'igh class Academy at 'Endon, and with old Lady Bullingdon who lives at Penge."
You're the best dressed, an' best lookin', an' best eddicated girl i' Bootle to-day thanks to me. When your mother kem 'ere ten year ago, an' said her lit'rary gent of a 'usband was dead, neither of you 'ad 'ad a square meal for weeks remember that, will you? It isn't my fault you've got to marry Bulmer. It's just a bit of infernal bad luck the same for both of us, if it comes to that.
Towards the close of the evening Captain Waldegrave came to me with Mr. Bootle Wilbraham, who has been alternately Wilbraham Bootle and Bootle Wilbraham, till nobody knows how to call him: no matter for me, he came to say he was at our service and our most devoted humble servant to show us the Millbank Penitentiary whenever we pleased.
You've bin lyin' ever since she disappeared from Bootle. Show me 'er letters an' their envelopes, an' I'll find the money. But, of course, you can't. They don't exist. Now, own up as man to man, an' I'll see if this affair can be settled without the lawyers. You know wot it means once they take hold." Then David set down the untasted wine and told the truth. Not all that was not to be dreamed of.
To one of her temperament, it seemed incredible that a number of inoffensive strangers should be slaughtered because a South American republic could not agree in choosing a president. Such a thing was unheard of in her previous experience, built on no more solid foundation than the humdrum existence of Brussels and Bootle.
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