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"Miss Gilder you're sure she hasn't the slightest suspicion?" "As sure as a man can be of anything about a woman." "You aren't trying to evade the question, Duffer?" "On my word, I'm not. I feel morally certain Miss Gilder labours under the impression that you're as brown as you're painted.
She fumbled her dress and glanced nervously across the table as if afraid to ask more. Unable to wait for him to speak, she cried nervously at last: "Well well what else did he say?" "That he took the little duffer to New York and raised him." "RAISED him?" She fairly screamed the words, springing to her feet trembling from head to foot.
What d'you take me for, you old duffer?" "Well," said Will, good-humoredly, "whom do you expect to catch?" "Is your head so taken up with scientific musings that you haven't noticed how, lately, Will Hen Baizley has taken to going home this way every afternoon, instead of by the short cut over the back road?
Robert took in a long breath, as one does who expects to receive a blow of some sort which can not be warded off, and asked: "Who is it?" Nancy married? What was the world coming to, anyhow? "Charlie Henderson," timidly. Then Robert, who had been expecting nothing less than an English duke, let loose the flaming ions of his righteous wrath. "Chuck Henderson? that duffer?" Robert, Mr.
"Jing! but this is a great place of yours, Freddy!" said Dan, as they turned back to the ship house. "We could not have found a better." "That's all you know," scoffed the lordly Dud. "I mean to keep on the right side of the old duffer," he added sotto voce, "and get over to Beach Cliff in that tub of his whenever I can.
Jacko did as he was bid, and worked hard, but still grumbled at having been called a duffer. The animals were quickly led over, the logs were replaced, and the two were again galloping through the forest. "I thought you were making for the wool-shed," said Jacko. "We're eight miles beyond the wool-shed," said Harry.
There is too much hard work for him, and the training required to put one in condition, fraught with all that is called self-denial, he could never endure. The musty old duffer, too, looks upon the game in the light of a deadly sin, which can never be associated in his mind with anything short of idiocy and the most virulent fanaticism.
"All that would be verra unpleasant, Tonald," said Dougall, with a humorous glance from the corners of his small grey eyes, "but I duffer with ye in opeenion." "You would duffer in opeenion with the Apostle Paul if he wass here," said the other, rising, as his pipe was by that time well alight, and resuming his work, "but we'll better obey Muster Lumley's orders than argufy about him."
"It wouldn't do at all for you to marry Prescott, Katie. He's a likeable enough fellow, but with it all something of a duffer." "Just what kind of man," asked Katie demurely, "would you say I had better marry?" He sat down in a chair nearer her. "Just what kind of man would you like to marry?" "How do you know," she asked, still demurely, "that I would like to marry any?"
Twice Lord Hampstead had come down in an omnibus from Islington; on which occasion it was remarked that as he did not come on Saturday there must be something wrong. A clerk, with Saturday half-holidays, ought not to be away from his work on Mondays and Tuesdays. Mrs. Duffer, who was regarded in Paradise Row as being very inferior to Mrs.
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