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"It does seem hard for you," said Frank. "See what she says." "H'm! `So sorry not to be able to speak to you yesterday. Come to my rooms for an hour before the reception this afternoon. I long to see you, my dear boy." Andrew handed back the letter with a sigh. "Lucky you, Frank. I say, don't repeat what I said about yesterday." "Of course not." "That's right.
Medallion joined the Little Chemist in his shop door and watched the habitants scatter, till only Parpon and the stranger were left, and these two faced each other, and, without a word, passed into the hotel together. "H'm, h'm!" said Medallion into space, drumming the door-jamb with his fingers; "which is it, my Parpon a dauphin, or a fool?"
Surely Major Duplay mistook your figures?" "Unless he mentioned fifty thousand, he did," said Harry firmly. "H'm, I did you injustice, Major with some excuse, though. Surely, Mr Sloyd ?" He turned away from Harry as he spoke. "I beg pardon," interrupted Harry. "Am I to talk to Major Duplay?" Iver looked at him curiously. "Well, I'd rather talk to you, Harry," he said.
"I looked out of the window, dear, while you went for your hanky and peeped into dining-room and boudoir, didn't you? There they were on the lawn, and they kissed each other. So I said to myself: 'Dear Susan has got him! Perseverance rewarded!" "H'm. Only a guess of yours. Or did Susan tell you?" "No, dear, she said nothing. But Susan was always secretive."
Here are six bottles of wine to Mrs Natly, the railway porter's wife, at three-and-six one pound one not provided for in your estimate. Any more physic, I wonder? H'm, subscription for coals to the poor. Half-a-guinea no head for charities in your estimate, I suppose?"
"H'm!" said Jim, looking at her. He went into the dining-room, returning a minute later with a glass of wine. "You're to have this," he said authoritatively, "and then I'm going to put you to " He broke off, looking at her with a little smile on his tired face. Norah had put her head down on the arm of the big chair, and was fast asleep.
"If you're sore because I been foolin' round with that little wart of a Donahue " She turned wise eyes up to him, trying to make them limpid in the darkness. "What do I care who you run with?" "Don't you care, Buzz?" The words were soft but there was a steel edge to her utterance. "No." "Oh, Buzz, I'm batty about you. I can't help it, can I? H'm?
"How is he?" inquired Brown, the keenest anxiety in his utterance. "H'm! he'd do well enough if he had the right treatment. I cal'late he's better now, even as 'tis; but, when a person has to lay and hear over and over again that what ails 'em is nothin' but imagination, it ain't to be wondered at that they get mad.
That it had reached her at all, said a good deal for Mrs Gildea's fame as a freely paragraphed newspaper correspondent. The telegram was phrased thus: SORRY IMPOSSIBLE NO FUNDS OTHER REASONS WRITING BIDDY Mrs Gildea's illuminative 'H'm! implied that her two inductions had been correct. No funds and other reasons meaning a MAN. She scented instantly another of Biddy's tempestuous love-affairs.
"No quarrelling, please!" he commanded, and resumed, "As I was sayin', ladies and gentlemen or as I was about to say the handlin' of a small boat demands certain gifts or, er, qualities; and these gifts and, er, qualities bein' the gifts and h'm qualities what made England such as we see her to-day, a sea-farin' nation an' foremost at that, it follows that we cannot despise them if we wish her to occupy the same position in the futur' which to my mind is education in a nutshell."
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