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"I shouldn't recommend it to everybody." "And it's horribly selfish," put in Olga. "My dear child, don't be so frightfully moral!" protested Violet. "I can't rise to it. Nick, why doesn't it always answer to take what one wants?" "Because one doesn't always succeed in keeping it," said Nick.
Just as we started, we crossed the first true stream which we had met, but during the balance of the journey we crossed one or two others. Soon, leaving the main road, we bore off to the left, and found several bad spots of stiff black mud, into which our poor animals sank frightfully.
"Louis," she said quickly, "That night at Naples when you were naughty. You talked French to me. I don't know what you said, but the schoolmaster looked shocked." He flushed. "Yes, I've been told that before. I always do talk French if I meet a girl when I'm boozy. I used to, to Violet, and she was oh frightfully disgusted. And once I did to my sister! She, unfortunately, understands French.
I've been frightfully hard-worked. My health has given way " "Since yesterday?" Fleetwood forced a smile. "My dear fellow, what a slave-driver you are! Hasn't a man the right to take a rest?" "Not a soldier on the eve of battle. You have never failed me before." "I don't want to fail you now. But it isn't the eve of battle you're in, and that's the main thing."
Here's my card. Blunt's my name. Spennie Blunt. Is your address on your card? I can't remember. Oh, by Jove, I've got it in my hand all the time." The gurgling laugh came into action again, freshened and strengthened by its rest. "Savoy Mansions, eh? I'll come round to-morrow. Thanks, frightfully, again old chap. I don't know what I should have done."
It was, moreover, delightful to be told by Pauline how wonderful she found all these things in him, and how unexpected. This, she explained, was nothing personal. "But I often wondered if I should ever meet a man like you." "Darling," he answered humbly, "I don't think I am that sort of man; really, I'm awfully and frightfully ordinary."
Without seeming to be aware of what it was that he was doing he disposed of the better half of the one I gave him at a draught. Putting his glass upon the table, he dropped his head upon his hands, and groaned. 'What would Marjorie think of me if she saw me now? 'Think? nothing. Why should she think of a man like you, when she has so much better fish to fry? 'I'm feeling frightfully ill!
"That's the sort of insolent things people say, I suppose, behind his back. It's all very unfortunate in my opinion, Estelle." "It's frightfully unfortunate Ray leaving us, because, after he's married, he must have a house of his own; but it isn't unfortunate his marrying Sabina, I'm sure." "I'm not sure at all," confessed her father.
Frank, who had just re-bandaged the injured limb, asked her what she meant. "I've seen Aunt Juliet," she said, "and I find that she's quite dropped Christian Science and is frightfully keen on Woman's Suffrage. That's always the way with her. When she's done with a thing she simply hoofs it without a word of apology to anyone. It was the same with the uric acid.
It had just dawned on his consciousness that he had been blundering frightfully, and his mind stood still for a moment, as a man halts suddenly, when he finds himself in a totally wrong road. To turn short about is not always the best way of getting off a wrong road, though it may be the quickest way.
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