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"Has that fellow renewed his old admiration of you?" he went on in the same tone. "Do not make me desire his old protection," said Fleda, her gentle face roused to a flush of displeasure. "Protection!" said Charlton coming in, "who wants protection? here it is protection from what? my old friend Lewis? what the deuce does this lady want of protection, Mr. Thorn?"
He had found Valentine a very useful tool in sundry intricate transactions of the commercial kind, and he expected his tools to be ready for his service. He was therefore considerably annoyed by Valentine's abrupt departure. "I think young Hawkehurst might have told me he was going out of town," he said. "What the deuce has taken him off in such a hurry?"
"The having charge of a stone valued at fifteen thousand pounds, and intended as a gift for the Queen of England, is a deuce of a responsibility," said he. "I shall borrow a hint from the method adopted in the case of the Koh-i-noor. I intend to hide the stone in my cabin, so as to extinguish all risk, saving, of course, what the insurance people call the acts of God.
"What puzzles me is this," he said, "how the deuce I came, of all places, to come just here! I don't believe, in all my wicked life, I ever made such a fool of myself before and I've made many a fool of myself too!" Receiving no answer, he took another pull at his flask.
The deuce of a lot of expansion had gone on. But it all came back to a cemetery to a name and a date on a tomb. And he thought with a curious pride that he and his family had done little or nothing to help this feverish expansion. Good solid middlemen, they had gone to work with dignity to manage and possess.
I trust you will not blame me, sir, for looking to them, and for a natural anxiety to sustain the honor and prolong the name of my family." "Blame you, sirrah!" said his father, laughing. "Confound me, but you're a trump, and I am proud to hear you express such sentiments. How the deuce did you get such a shrewd notion of the world? But, no matter, attend to me.
The on-lookers ceased talking and prepared to watch, for now came the crucial test of the evening. Faro is to other games as war is to jackstraws. For a time Glenister won steadily till there came a moment when many stacks of chips lay on the deuce. Cherry saw the Kid "flash" to the case-keeper, and the next moment he had "pulled two." The deuce lost.
"You must know I had got into a deuce of a row at Aleppo, about eighteen months ago, and had to take to my heels. Alexandretta is the port of Aleppo and Hamdi is a sort of boss policeman there." "He is very rich." "He ought to be. My interview with him cost me a thousand pounds the bald-headed scoundrel!" "He is a shocking bad man," said Carlotta, gravely. "I'm afraid it is Mr.
I'm in the deuce of a mess, and I want to be helped out." So speaking, Max seated himself upon a porch settee and waited for expressions of sympathy and curiosity from the girls before him. When he had received them, he deigned to give a few details.
'Mr Whelpdale will be bringing us information, no doubt, said Dora, who, as she spoke, thought more of that gentleman's visit than of the event that was to occasion it. 'Really, one can't grieve. There seemed no possibility of his ever earning enough to live decently upon. But why the deuce did he go all the way out there?
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