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O no, it was Drummond. Drummond knows her people, I think. 'What story, eh? 'Why, she was to have married a Member of Parliament; what the deuce was his name? Something that reminded me of a race-horse, I remember. Was it Blair? No Athel! That's the name. 'Why didn't it come off, then? 'Oh, the honourable member found somebody he liked better.
I felt what a forlorn little chap Timothy was, with no one to say a word for him, and I became his champion and hinted something about teething, but withdrew it when it seemed too surprising, and tried to get on to safer ground, such as bibs and general intelligence, but the painter fellow was so willing to let me have my say, and knew so much more about babies than is fitting for men to know, that I paled before him and wondered why the deuce he was listening to me so attentively.
"A man who makes an unjust will, and leaves everything to his wife," said Sir Wilfrid, calmly. "It's played the deuce in this family, and will go on doing it." Whereupon the late Lord Coryston's executor produced an outline of the family history up to date for the benefit of Lady Coryston's future son-in-law.
'What business have you in the day-room? he said. 'You've got studies of your own. 'If it comes to that, said Monk, 'so have you. We've got as much business here as you. What the deuce are you doing here?
One morning he descended the stairs, a sort of dressing-case in hand, and yelled to an urchin at the door: "Here, you son of a sea-calf, take this down to the waterside for me!" "Will he understand you?" I said. "Bound to," Mr. Crabapple replied; "never talk to them any other way, anyhow. 'Tis their business to understand. Ta, ta deuce of a hurry." "Where are you going, may I ask?"
"If I were you," she said to the Professor one morning, when he was most astonished at his contradictory results, "I would test it on a hawk. If I dare venture on a suggestion, I believe you will find that hawks recover." "The deuce they do!" Sebastian cried. However, he had such confidence in Nurse Wade's judgment that he bought a couple of hawks and tried the treatment on them.
I'll go and tell Jeeves." I tottered down the passage to Jeeves's lair. The man was reading the evening paper as if he hadn't a care in the world. "Jeeves," I said, "we want some tea." "Very good, sir." "I say, Jeeves, this is a bit thick, what?" I wanted sympathy, don't you know sympathy and kindness. The old nerve centres had had the deuce of a shock.
But when his eyes fell upon me he dropped the pen on to the chart, and he sprang up with a look in his pale face which struck me cold. 'What the deuce are you doing here? he shouted. When he was angry he had a voice like a peacock. 'I have the honour to report to you, sire, said I, 'that I have delivered your despatch safely to the King of Spain.
Not thinking of the furniture, I looked around the room strangely bewildered. "Ha! Ha! what perplexes you, Captain?" asked Clayley. "Nothing." "Ah! the girls you spoke of the nymphs of the pond; but where the deuce are they?" "Ay, where?" I asked, with a strange sense of uneasiness. "Girls! what girls?" inquired the major, who had not yet learned the exact nature of our aquatic adventure.
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