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"I know I don't deserve it, but it would make such a deuce of a difference if she would you know what Horatio is I I'd give anything to prevent him knowing what a mess I've made of everything," he added boyishly. They were both looking at Gladys now, Jimmy and Christine, and for a moment she stood irresolute, then she turned to Jimmy's wife.
That impressionistic chap I can't think of his name that had that exhibition at the Palsifer galleries." "Does he sell?" Caroline asked. "No, they say he's awfully poor, refuses to paint down to the public taste. What the deuce is his name oh! I know, Collier Pratt do you know him, Nancy? Lived in Paris always till the war. He'll appreciate Ritz cooking at Riggs' prices if anybody will."
Graham," he continued, as the young man hastened to greet him, "you are as welcome as a leave of absence. We have had no whist since you left us, and we are nearly an hour behind time to-night. Mrs. Mayburn, your humble servant. Excuse me for not rising. Why the deuce my gout should trouble me again just now I can't see.
I myself have just come into an earldom, and twenty thousand a-year; and if, under these circumstances, I mayn't make that woman a handsome present, why then the deuce is in it, you know. Sam, my boy, your hand. Jim, your hand, my lad. May you be as good a soldier as your father." "Ah!" said Jim. "So you're an earl are you? What does it feel like, eh?
A week later, Hogan-Yale received an extraordinary letter from some one who signed himself "Secretary, Charity and Zeal, 3709, E. C.," and asked for "the return of our skeleton which we have reason to believe is in your possession." "Who the deuce is this lunatic who trades in bones?" said Hogan-Yale.
"What a sly old chap you are," said he; "really, I shall have to go back to the inn and watch you." "What the deuce do you mean?" I demanded. He looked me over in well-bred astonishment and replied: "Hang me, Crocker, if I can make you out. You seem to know the world pretty well, and yet when a fellow twits you on a little flirtation you act as though you were going to black his eyes."
'Rot it! roared Jack, jumping up, 'don't ride over a fellow that way! When, shaking himself to try whether any limbs were broken, he found he was in his dress clothes instead of in the roomy garments of the Flat Hat Hunt. 'Who are you? where am I? what the deuce do you mean by breaking my specs? he exclaimed, squinting frightfully at his host. 'My dear sir, exclaimed Mr.
Simpkins was alone at the moment, and he ran over the letters carelessly until he came to one addressed to Brander in Mrs. Athelstone's writing. The blue card of the palace car company was in a corner of the envelope. "Why the deuce is she writing that skunk before she's well out of town?" he thought, scanning the envelope with jealous eyes.
Zeb," she said, turning to a bold looking young man, "tell them to quit." "Here," he commanded, "we've got enough of this, so let's start on something else. Let's play old Sister Phoebe. Why the deuce won't they let us dance?"
"Certainly, pulsatilla!" muttered the homoeopathist, and ensconcing himself in his own corner, he also sought to sleep. But after vain efforts, accompanied by restless gestures and movements, he suddenly started up, and again extracted his phial-book. "What the deuce are they to me?" he muttered. "Morbid sensibility of character coffee? No! accompanied by vivacity and violence nux!"
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