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Jack fired but without result and then Frank fired again. There was another scream. "Either got the other one, or the same one again," said Frank. They waited some moments in silence, but no further shots came from the foe. "By Jove!" said Jack, "you must have got them both. Let's go and have a look." Slowly, Frank started the hydroplane and they bore down on the enemy.
Here," he commanded one of the gymnasium rubbers who had appeared, "lend a hand here with some water." The clubmen crowded about, all talking at once. "You're a wonder, my friend," said one. "By Jove, he's hardly breathing fast after all that rushing," said a second. "So you didn't think one punch like that would hurt him," quoted another with good-natured sarcasm. "No," said Orde, simply.
Spillikins was saying, with quite a quaver in his voice, "By Jove! yes, I'm awfully lucky; I never thought for a moment that she'd have me, you know a woman like her, with so much attention and everything. I can't imagine what she sees in me." Which was just as well. And then Mr.
"Harry," she said, when he joined her, chuckling at having come top dog out of the recent blaze, "you'd better go straight to bed now. We're going to be up early in the morning, you know." "Just what I was thinking," he answered. "By Jove, you've given me a corking good evening. The best of my young life. You ... you certainly are, well, I don't know how to do you justice. I'd have to be a poet."
The Doctor made his acknowledgments and filled his glass, and looked through the wine between him and the window. "Ha, ha! see there, your port, Sir Bale, gives a fellow such habits looking for the beeswing, by Jove. It isn't easy, in one sense at least, to get your port out of a fellow's head when once he has tasted it."
"The other shoe went flying unto the devil-god of that river. I thought, 'By Jove! it's all over. We are too late; he has vanished the gift has vanished, by means of some spear, arrow, or club. I will never hear that chap speak after all, and my sorrow had a startling extravagance of emotion, even such as I had noticed in the howling sorrow of these savages in the bush.
What with that Piegan and the wolf business and all, you are done right up. So am I and by Jove! That reminds me, I am dead famished." No better word could he have spoken. "You poor boy," she cried. "I'll have supper ready by the time you come in. I am silly, but now it's all over. I shall go in and face the Inspector and dare him to arrest you, no matter what you have done."
'How are you, Levison? responded our hero in an easy voice. 'Any news? Mr. Levison shrugged his shoulders, as he murmured, 'Times is very bad, Captin. 'Oh! I dare say, said Ferdinand; 'I wish they were as well with me as with you. By Jove, Levison, you must be making an immense fortune. Mr. Levison shook his head, as he groaned out, 'I work hard, Captin; but times is terrible. 'Fiddlededee!
And meanwhile what new and dolorous truths had Lady Kitty been learning as to her mother's history and her mother's position? By Jove! it was hard upon the girl. Darrell was right. Why not leave her to her French friends and relations? or relinquish her to Lady Grosville? Madame d'Estrées had seen little or nothing of her for years.
Lonsdale's testimony, together with the statement of the physician who was called, would seem to leave little doubt that it was merely a case of heart." Mr. Ford was nodding his head. "So it would," he said. "Yes, so it would." He stopped nodding, and sat there an instant, as if he were thinking of something else. "If that's the case," he broke out, "what a rotter, by Jove! that woman was!"
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