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The Chair looked from one gentleman to the other in perplexity, mysteriously winking at Mr. Leech and nodding at Mr. O'Fake as if to call the attention of the one to the fact that the other was already addressing the council. These repeated gestures having produced no other effect than to draw another "Mr. Cheerman!" from Mr. Leech, the dwarf was moved to inquire, "Vell, Duffer, vot's hup?"
It took those police officers but the twinkling of an eye to have the two burglars handcuffed and cowed at the point of their revolvers, and to hear the whole story of the rescued doctor. "But who's this little duffer?" asked the inspector, gazing at Buck. "Why, look at his knees and feet! They're dripping blood!"
"I declare I think he means to deceive us," whispered Clara to her friend, Mrs. Duffer, when all the good tea had been consumed before the young man appeared. "I don't suppose he cares much for tea," said Mrs. Duffer; "they don't now-a-days." "It isn't just for the tea that a man is expected to come," said Clara, indignantly.
I want to wipe out those obligations. If I could do that, the next time I saw him I'd hand him over." "You're a sentimental duffer, Crawffy," said the artist, smiling. "And I shouldn't love him at all if he wasn't," the wife defended. "But this Webb affair doesn't add up right," said Killigrew morosely. "There's th' hull game," declared Haggerty.
Not for all the world would I be your wife, loving you as I do, unless the organization would forget or forgive Esme and me. And that I can't fancy they'll ever do, till the millenium. I shall be past the marrying age then! Oh, Duffer, I almost wish you had fallen in love with Monny as I wanted you to do "Honest Injun, you really wanted that to happen?"
The tall man walked about the cabin and sniffed. He was angered at the crudeness of the rescue, and his shrinking clothes made him feel too large. He contemplated his unhappy state. Suddenly, he broke out. "I won't stand this, I tell you! Heavens and earth, look at the say, what in the blazes did you want to get me in this thing for, anyhow? You're a fine old duffer, you are! Look at that ham!"
"Yes," added Valentine. "It would be precious risky work firing bullets about in this garden with a muzzle-loader." "Pooh! you're a nice chap to think of being a soldier, if you're afraid of letting off a gun!" "Val knows a lot more about guns than you do," broke in Jack. "I suppose you think a thorn hedge and a bit of board would stop a bullet, you duffer!"
"'No, ye duffer, the Mainland o' Orkney, to be sure, says the pilot. 'What other Mainland is there?" As I sat on my low stool by the fire, my mother and Jessie being in the inner room, I took the viking's charm from my pocket and examined it.
"I want to talk about you. Anybody else is irrelevant." "Clever Duffer! Your friend is a secret." "Not he! But if there's a secret anywhere, it's only a dull, dusty sort of secret. You wouldn't be interested." "Women never are, in secrets. Well, I'm glad somebody else besides myself has a mystery to hide." "You're very quick." "I'm Irish! But I'm merciful.
But my prospects were done for, and I had to ship 'fore the mast. "'You're a navigator, of course. Bring your dunnage into the first mate's room and take his place. Put his dunnage into the second mate's room, and make that duffer in the scuppers bundle his traps into the forecastle. I want no weaklings aft with me.
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