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"Once more I congratulate you," Bernadine continued. "In the old days you were shrewd and successful in your small undertakings, but you were, after all, little more than a policeman. To-day you stand for other things." "Monsieur le Comte talks in enigmas," Peter murmured. Bernadine smiled. "Cautious as ever!" he exclaimed.
The public prosecutor was called in; and together with Monsieur Auffray the notary, Pierrette's relation, and Monsieur Martener, a cautious consultation was held in the utmost secrecy as to the proper course to follow. Monsieur Martener agreed to advise Pierrette's grandmother to apply to the courts to have Auffray appointed guardian to his young relation.
Perhaps his presence after what had just passed between herself and Fletcher made her nervous, or perhaps her thoughts were elsewhere and she forgot to be cautious. Whatever the cause, she took up the kettle carelessly and knocked it against the spirit-lamp with some force.
These postulants of fortune in their half-visible state once more bore some resemblance to the young ladies who had stood in decorum answering compliments between the figures of the dance the night before. On cautious shoe leather the march began. One voice, two voices, and finally a low chorus intoned and repeated,
'Pancks? said Doyce, tilting up his hat at the back, and nodding with an air of confidence. 'Aye, aye, aye! That's a cautious fellow. 'He is a very cautious fellow indeed, returned Arthur. 'Quite a specimen of caution. They both appeared to derive a larger amount of satisfaction from the cautious character of Mr Pancks, than was quite intelligible, judged by the surface of their conversation.
Instead of starting up to investigate, I pretended to sleep, and partly opening one eye, saw to my surprise that Bimbo was on his knees near my feet, and working with cautious energy upon a board which he was endeavoring to remove. The instrument he was operating with was an old knife, with notches on the blade, made to resemble a saw.
It were well to love them a little, as babies, and not to discuss them so much as "questions." It were well if there were a little more individual charity; a good deal less of the kind described by Boyle O'Reilly as conducted "in the name of a cautious statistical Christ."
It seems to me that, on a survey of all the facts of the case, only a very cautious and hypothetical judgment is justifiable.
Even those who did go with him, on account of his having unlimited spending money, always kept a cautious eye out for treachery. "Oh, you're going to get it where the chicken did in the neck!" he replied cheerfully, with a grin that told of secret pleasure, for he liked to see others suffer. "No kidding now, but tell me the truth for once. Is Ralph West the wonder they make out?
Bryany went on offering to Edward Henry, in a suitably lowered voice, his views on the great questions of investment and speculation, and Edward Henry made cautious replies. "And even when there is a good thing going at home," Mr. Bryany said, in a wounded tone, "what Englishman'd look at it?" "I would," said Edward Henry with a blandness that was only skin-deep.
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