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'Pray go on, then, I said; 'I will see you safe there, though somewhat pressed for time. We walked side by side, and after awhile she said in a low tone, and with still downcast eyes: 'My mother lived servant in your family once, sir. 'The deuce! Your name is Ransome, then, I suspect. 'Yes, sir Mary Ransome. A sad sigh accompanied these words.
"Yes," said Joel. "They couldn't wait, my friend," observed Bingley sarcastically, "for people of such trifling consequence, as you and I." "The deuce! you here, Bingley?" exclaimed Dobbs, in his natural voice, and trying to get his head up. "Oh, you are coming to, are you?" said Bingley carelessly.
On the 21st of August Lord Lambeth received a telegram from his mother, requesting him to return immediately to England; his father had been taken ill, and it was his filial duty to come to him. The young Englishman was visibly annoyed. "What the deuce does it mean?" he asked of his kinsman. "What am I to do?"
Then he leaned back, excited, triumphant. "There you are!" he said; "only, of course, it makes no sense." He examined it in silence, and gradually a hopeless expression effaced the animation. "How the deuce am I going to separate that mass of letters into words?" he muttered.
"Weel, weel, the deuce, gin ye like it better," said he. "An' he was gaun to question him where the treasure was, but he had eneuch to do to get him laid without deaving him wi' questions, for a' the deils cam' about him, like bees biggin' out o' a byke.
The majesty of Joyce's attitude toward the change in the child, was the only thing that saved the occasion. "Is it hungry?" he asked with the same dense stupidity he had displayed before. "Oh, no!" Joyce laughed gleefully. "Don't you see, he he knows me. He he does like me he's going to stay, and he takes this heavenly way to show it." "The deuce he does!" and now Gaston laughed.
The circumstances must excuse me. The fact is, my cousin Richard got married to a dairymaid this morning, and I wanted to know whether it held in law." It was amusing to watch the manly coolness with which the announcement was taken. Nothing was heard more energetic than, "Deuce he has!" and, "A dairymaid!" "I thought it better to let the ladies dine in peace," Adrian continued.
But as for being in love with her any more, after what had occurred, that was a different question. Well, come what would, he was determined still to continue doing his duty by her; but as she was whisked away the deuce knew whither, how could he do anything? So he resigned himself to the fact that she was thus whisked away.
"But what the deuce is all this?" demanded the other. "Why a very foolish affair," answered Lord Orville; "your Helen first refused this coxcomb, and then-danced with me. This is all I can gather of it." "O, Orville," returned he, "you are a happy man!-But ill-bred? -I can never believe it! And she looks too sensible to be ignorant."
Don't you know me by this time?" he said, laughing. "Discretion is my lot." Jules showed him the letter. "You must read me this letter, addressed to my wife." "The deuce! the deuce! a bad business!" said Jacquet, examining the letter as a usurer examines a note to be negotiated. "Ha! that's a gridiron letter! Wait a minute." He left Jules alone for a moment, but returned immediately.
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