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"Don't you remember hailing me, sir, when I was on sentry-go?" "No." "Nor me telling you to mind the crocs didn't try to come aboard your boat?" "No. What are you talking about?" "Oh, my word!" sighed Peter. "Here's a pretty go! Talk about a poor fellow being off his chump!" Then aloud, as he felt the lad's hand feebly feeling for his, "It was like this 'ere, sir.
"You despise me anyhow!" "Oh!" ejaculated Seaton as a sudden light came to his groping mind. "Oh, I see! What a chump you are, old man! Of course, I despise the kind of life you've led, but I blame Minetta Lane for that, not you.
Chump, who had heard that there was a new man in the house, now entered the room, prepared to conquer him. As thus, after a short form of introduction: "D'ye do, sir! and ye're Mr. Paricles. Oh! but ye're a Sultan, they say. Not in morr'ls, sir. And vary pleasant to wander on the Cont'nent with a lot o' lacqueys at your heels. It's what a bachelor can do.
"Then you knew she was a married woman, Dave?" "No; but Belle did." "How, I -wonder?" "She saw the wedding ring on Mrs. Henshaw's left hand." Dan Dalzell looked the picture of amazement. Then he whistled in consternation. "By the great Dewey!" he groaned hoarsely. "I never thought of that!" "No; but you should have done so." "Dave, I'm the biggest chump in the world.
Again rose the cry, not so weird now that its nature was known. "Hee-haw! Hee-haw!" And from the camp came a disgusted complaint from some sleepy trooper as he shouted: "The chump who tied that mule so he could wander ought to be made to go get him!" There was laughter at this, for many had been awakened by the braying of the animal.
Perspiration started from every pore, and in my agony I said, "Break, G. A. Ahr.," Holy Smoke! how he did fly off at that, and how those other three chaps did grin at my discomfiture. "Call your chief operator over here," and with that he refused to work with me any more. Clarke came over and that blasted chump at "HO" said,
"And how'll I sleep?" "By shutting my eye peeps," as I used to tell my old nurse," said Adela; and Mrs. "I'll sit with you till you do sleep," said Arabella. "Suppose," Mrs. Chump moaned, "suppose I'm too poor aver to repay ye? If I'm a bankrup'? oh!" Arabella smiled. "Whatever I may do is certainly not done for a remuneration, and such a service as this, at least, you need not speak of." Mrs.
And just at that moment, wallowing through the snow, with the air of having come from the North Pole there arrived a great car and drew up to the door, and Laurie Shafton jumped anxiously out and flung open the door for his passengers. "Aw Gee! That Fish! Whadde wantta come here for? The great chump! Don't he know he ain't in it?"
Chump wantonly sought to prevent him. Each was burdened with serious matter; but they might have struck hands here, had not this petty accidental opposition interposed. "Makes me feel confident..." Wilfrid resumed. "And Pole's promos, Mr. Wilfrud; ye're forgettin' that." "Confident, ma'am." "He was the first to be soft." "I say, ma'am, for his sake " "An' it's for his sake.
And if that was his object, he was paid for it. A great thick kiss was planted on his cheek, with the motto: "Harm to them that thinks ut." Wilfrid bore the salute like a man who presumes that he is flattered. "And it's you!" said Mrs. Chump. "I was just off. I'm packed, and bonnutted, and ready for a start; becas, my dear, where there's none but women, I don't think it natural to stop.
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