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I wanted to hear something about your own affairs, which don't seem to be flourishing. But I'll wait till Miss Dora's at home. 'Sit down, sit down again! cried Lomax angrily, catching him by the arm. 'I'll not meddle with you. Yes, we're in a bad way, a deuced bad way, if you listen to Dora. If it weren't for her I'd have walked myself off long ago and let the devil take the creditors.
It's not the stink I mind, nor being waked up; it's the deuced awful risk of hurting somebody. Besides look how I spoilt that tiger's mask! The skins I've always admired at home had been shot where it didn't show so badly." There was not even the symptom of a smile on Cunningham's face. He looked straight into Mahommed Gunga's eyes, and spoke as one man talking calm common sense to another.
There's Lupex off again in one of his fits of jealousy." "But it's not your fault, I suppose?" "Well; I can't just say. I am fond of her, and that's the long and the short of it; deuced fond of her." "But, my dear Caudle, you know she's that man's wife." "Oh, yes, I know all about it. I'm not going to defend myself. It's wrong, I know, pleasant, but wrong. But what's a fellow to do?
When he had as carefully lit it, he said callously: "That's your business, of course. I shouldn't venture to interfere with any plan of that kind. So you'd sneak out of it, eh, Orme? Sneak out of it, and leave that young fellow to bear the brunt? Well, I'm sorry for him! He seems the right sort deuced good-looking and high-class yes, I'm d d sorry for him!"
No doubt, however, she had long since changed her ambitions. Sir Charles calculated her age. Resilda Mardale must be twenty-five years old and a deuced fine woman into the bargain. Sir Charles took a glance at his figure in his cheval-glass.
"It's none of your business, Harry but still, I don't mind saying that Miss Emory wrote me and said that if I was still oh! I say!" he roared, turning suddenly and poking a finger into my ribs, "if you haven't got on one of my waistcoats!" "The one with pink stripes," said I still icily, "and deuced bad ones they all are. And these clothes I borrowed from my China boy. But then "
What with that trip to Lost Canyon to-morrow, and to the mountains Friday, I'm afraid the lace will continue to suffer. What do you think of a round-up, Sir Redmond?" "It's deuced nasty," said he. "Such a lot of dust and noise. I fancy the workmen don't find it pleasant." "Yes, they do; they like it," she declared. "Dick says a cowboy is never satisfied off the range.
It was quickly, nobly done, and I could have hugged the fellow. "Well, good luck to you, Major, and a pleasant ride. Remember me to Brennan. Deuced queer, though, why he failed to show up on such an occasion as this." "He was unfortunate enough to be sent out in the other direction with despatches good-night, gentlemen."
He is even said to have managed a smile when his passengers returned. "I have it," exclaimed his lordship now. "Deuced good plan go to that Ruggles place for a jolly fat tea. No end of a spree, what, what!"
Her little nose, and her fresh colour, and her silly but not unmalicious laugh, were called enchanting; and all irregularities of feature and faults of shape were absolutely turned into merits by that odd commendation, so common with us "A deuced fine girl; none of your regular beauties."
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