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But I mustn't let on that I've guessed the riddle, for I don't understand why they're at daggers' points what has Owen done why did he skip down the river without even his gun? H'm, there's lots to unravel even here, and perhaps I'd better get Chum Owen to confide in me before I go any further."
Seeing my look of surprise, he added, "I don't count old Duncan, her husband; for he's half-witted, and only serves to break the plates. Does it surprise you to learn that, barring him, Elspeth is my only retainer?" "H'm," said I, considerably puzzled I must explain why.
Buck Tom looked at the sleeping figure for a few moments. "H'm! well, I might guide him," he said, with something of a grim smile, "but I'm travelling too fast for comfort. He might hamper me.
You never thought of asking him till she tried to coerce you into it." "I am not going to be coerced by any woman, much less by that man in petticoats," said Colonel Bellairs wrathfully. "But she will be here directly. H'm! What on earth am I to say to her if I don't ask him?... She will be here directly."
I believe, first, that neither a leader nor any decisive action can come out of the dregs of a people. Now, if you ask me what are the dregs of a people h'm it would take too long to tell. You would be surprised at the variety of ingredients that for me go to the making up of these dregs of that which ought, must remain at the bottom. Moreover, such a statement might be subject to discussion.
Presently the door of the room opened with a jerk, and a tallish man wearing a silk hat looked in. "H'm!" he said brusquely. "Beg pardon!" And he was gone. I learned afterwards that the room belonged to him, and that he came direct from a conference of newspaper pundits called together at Westminster by the Home Secretary.
"Isn't Bles developing splendidly?" she said to Miss Smith one afternoon. There was an unmistakable note of enthusiasm in her voice. Miss Smith slowly closed her letter-file but did not look up. "Yes," she said crisply. "He's eighteen now quite a man." "And most interesting to talk with." "H'm very" drily. Mary was busy with her own thoughts, and she did not notice the other woman's manner.
Then I will do it to-night if you tell what happens." Exhibiting a sort of eager impatience the man displayed a bunch of official-looking documents. "I give him these," he explained, "and my work is done." "H'm," said Zahara. "He must not know that it is I who have shown him to you. To-night he will be here at nine o'clock, and I shall dance. You understand?"
And if you care to smoke in the garden, you'll find the girls on the lawn, I dare say." That was why the girls had never married, so people said. They could have married anybody. But they had too good a time at home. They were too happy together, the girls and Charlotte. H'm, h'm! Well, well. Perhaps so...
They walked along the edge of the green until they came to it a low wooden bunk which had been built into one wall of the ditch. "H'm. Jolly view." Bill laughed. "Nobody sits there. It's just for keeping things out of the rain." They finished their circuit of the green "Just in case anybody's in the ditch," said Antony and then sat down on the bench. "Now then," said Bill, "We are alone.
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