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"Deuced clever of you, I call it, to think of coming up here. How did you know that Black fellow wouldn't come?" "He's too fat to climb," said Bobby. "He doesn't even like to walk." "Thought he was quite keen about it from the way he walked with us every evening. A decent chap would not intrude." "That's funny!" said Bobby, with twinkling eyes.
Jolly old boy, though deuced fond of him ha! there's Haynes! Over yonder! Fellow driving the phaeton with the black-a-moor in the rumble." "You mean the man in the bright green coat?" "Yes. Call him 'Pea-green Haynes' one of your second-rate, ultra dandies. Twig his vasty whiskers, will you! Takes his fellow hours to curl 'em. And then his cravat, b'gad!"
"I mean," he explained, "that those men who meet at Brodonowski's are very good fellows, and deuced clever, and all that; but I doubt if they are the sort of men it is well to get too much mixed up with. They are rather outré, you know; though, of course, they are awfully good fellows in their way." "Precisely!" said Rainham, "you are becoming a very Solomon, Dick!"
I hope I have not disturbed you. I fancy er Berkeley must have taken his case with him after all." When he had gone I shut the door carefully. Then I turned to Jeeves. The man was putting my evening things out on a chair. "Er Jeeves!" "Sir?" "Oh, nothing." It was deuced difficult to know how to begin. "Er Jeeves!" "Sir?" "Did you Was there Have you by chance "
Ellerton?" "Oh, awfully. What sort of a fellow is he?" "Splendid!" "Isn't it a deuced queer thing?" "Most extraordinary. And when we told one another we never thought ." "How could we?" "Well, no, we couldn't, of course." A pause followed. Then Charlie observed: "I suppose there's nothing to be done." "Nothing to be done, Mr. Ellerton! Why if I were a man I'd leave for England tonight."
"I wish I was sure that Vernon was good enough for her." Frank looked up quickly. "I don't think anybody is quite good enough for Jean; but Lucas Vernon is really a deuced fine fellow." Mr. Walkingshaw still seemed doubtful. "A bit lazy, I'm afraid." "I assure you he's not," said Frank. "He works, sir, like the very dickens." "He can't sell his pictures," replied his father.
"Yes, and he tells me that we haven't a leg to stand upon." "No, we've got to stand on our heads, as men of intellect should. But Lawley knows nothing about the case." "He thinks he knows it all," said Anstey. "Most fools do," retorted Thorndyke. "They arrive at their knowledge by intuition a deuced easy road and cheap travelling too. We reserve our defence I suppose you agree to that?"
Before I enter into this thing I want an understanding; you are not going to come it over me as you have on former occasions." "Why, Lawrence, I don't want to come it over you. It seems to me you are deuced suspicious, all at once. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll give you one half, to be divided between you and Dick Eagle.
"Ole man," said Kerns reproachfully, "there's one thing you have been deuced careful not to mention, and that is about what happened to you three years ago " "Steady!" said Harren; "there is nothing to tell, Tommy." "Nothing?" "Nothing. I never saw her again. I never shall."
This is not perhaps of very much consequence, since everybody has a great deal too much to do to permit them to read it; but how full of sighs, and groans, and passionate bewailings it is! And also how deuced difficult! It is almost as inarticulate as an Æolian harp, and quite as melancholy. There are one or two exceptions, of course, as in the case of Mr. Calverley and Mr.
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