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"Well, very wild, ain't he drinks, gambles, and hetceteras, don't he?" "Why, as to that, sir," answered Mr. Brimberly, dexterously performing on the syphon, "I should answer you, drink 'e may, gamble 'e do, hetceteras I won't answer for, 'im being the very hacme of respectability though 'e is a millionaire and young." "And when might you expect 'im back?" "Why, there's no telling, Mr. Stevens."
"Why, I ain't begun yet, you blinkin', fat-faced, owl-eyed piece o' sooet " "Your speech, sir," continued Mr. Brimberly with calm austerity and making the most of whiskers and waistcoat, "your speech is redolent of slums and back halleys. I don't know you. I don't want to know you! You are a feller! Go away, feller!" "Feller?" snarled the Old Un, "why you " "I repeat," said Mr.
"Next, sir, in Italy we find your ancient Roman villa, sir halabaster pillows and columns, sir very historical though a trifle wore with wars and centuries of centoorians, sir, wherefore I would humbly suggest a coat or two of paint, sir, applied beneath your very own eye, sir " "No, Brimberly," murmured Young R., "paint might have attractions Italy, none!" "Certingly not, sir, cer-tingly not!
"They'll do. Now the hat and muffler." "All 'ere, sir the 'at's got its brim broke, sir." "Couldn't be better, Brimberly!" So saying, Mr. Ravenslee took up the clothes and turned toward the door. "Now I'll trouble you to keep an eye on er young America here while I get into these." "Sir," said Mr.
"Really," sighed Young R., "these are quite fool questions for one of your hard-headed common sense! If I knew exactly 'what' and 'where', I'd go and find it myself at least, I might!" "But 'ow in the world, sir begging your parding I'm sure, but 'ow am I to go a-finding hobjex as I've never seen nor 'eard of?" "Brimberly, I pass!
Brimberly alternately beat the tempo with a plump white finger and sipped his master's champagne until, having emptied his glass, he turned to the bottle on the table beside him, found that empty also, crossed to the two bottles on the mantel, found them likewise void and had tried the two upon the piano with no better success, when, the song being ended, Mr.
I don't agree with you, Brimberly." "Stevens, sir!" "Ah! And you showed him my pictures, did you?" "Yes, sir, I did take that liberty no offence, sir, I " "Hum! Did he like 'em?" "Like them, sir! 'E were fair overpowered, sir! Brandy and soda, sir?" "Thanks! Did he like that, too?" "Why, sir I indeed " "Oh, never mind to-night is an occasion, anyway just a splash of soda!
"Now I wonder," he sighed plaintively, "I wonder what under the blue expandment of 'oly 'eaven you might be, because if you 'appen to be the washing " "I am not!" "Or the cannybal missions " "No sech thing!" "Oh!" said Mr. Brimberly, and his gaze wandered to the elbows. "Why, then, let me hinform you " "Ann Angelina Trapes is me name." "Why then, ma'am, you've took the wrong turning.
But if you manage it in say a week, I'll double your wages and give you a er a bonus into the bargain; think it over." "I I will, sir indeed, sir!" "Very well; you may go." "Certingly, sir." Mr. Brimberly bowed and crossed to the door but, being there, paused. "Double me wages I think it were, sir, and a bonus? Very 'andsome, very 'andsome indeed, sir thank you, sir." Saying which, Mr.
But Mr. Brimberly, somewhat shaken with his late interview and feeling the need of a stimulant, had just refilled the long glass when, hearing a rustle behind him, he turned and beheld a tall woman, elderly and angular, especially as to chin and elbows, which last obtruded themselves quite unpleasantly; at least, as he eyed them there was manifest disapprobation in every hair of his whiskers.
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