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His tone was airily defiant. "Well make me out a list of irreproachables, and I'll work them off in rotation between whiles!" The implication of that last subtly made amends: and she had a taste for the minor subtleties of intercourse. "I shall do nothing of the kind! You're perfectly graceless this evening! I suspect all that scribbling goes to your head sometimes.
No doubt you know that little poem of Browning about the lady and gentleman who watched the Seine, and saw Guizot receive Montalembert, who rhymed to "flare"? Of course, the case was hardly on all fours with that of our two irreproachables, but we suspect a point in common.
"One of your irreproachables, Armstrong," said one of the staff, with something half-sneer, half-taunt as he too read and then passed the paper to the judge-advocate of the division. Armstrong turned with his usual deliberation. There was ever about him a quiet dignity of manner that was the delight of his friends and despair of his foes. "What is his name?" he calmly asked.
"You're off, then! That commissary-sergeant caught one of 'em in the act he got wind of it and skipped, and to-day came back in handcuffs." "All of which may be as you say," answered Armstrong, "and still not warrant your reference to him as one of my irreproachables." By this time much of the crowd and most of the vehicles had driven away.
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