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"I have the honour to wish madame a bonsoir," said he, but the lady was still sulky and vouchsafed no answer. We were soon out in the street. "Do you know," said De Kock slowly, lighting a cigar and looking up at the house, "Do you know, I thought something had happened." "And don't you now." "I am not sure," answered my friend. We were pardonably curious to see the papers next morning.
He was benevolently martial, to the extent of paternal, in thinking his girl, of whom he deigned to think now as his countess, pardonably foolish. Woman for woman, she was of a pattern superior to the world's ordinary, and might run the world's elect a race. But she was pitifully woman-like in her increase of dissatisfaction with the more she got. Women are happier enslaved.
And we may believe that your dressmakers knew just as little of the poor woman who had used to be the friend of the Small People. But the truth remains that, in the press of your many pleasures, you were pardonably twenty-four hours late in ordering the gown in which you were to appear an angel.
It is a choice town, and we made satisfactory use of the hour allowed us, in roaming it over, though the weather was rainier than necessary. WE added several passengers to our list, at La Crosse; among others an old gentleman who had come to this north-western region with the early settlers, and was familiar with every part of it. Pardonably proud of it, too. He said
If, however, you tire of your all-night vigil, you can at once obtain release by crying at the top of your voices 'So die all Christians. Thus you will hang yourselves, and so remove some responsibility from my perhaps overladen conscience. The hanging is a device of my own, of which I am perhaps pardonably proud, and it pleases me that it is to be first tried on so worthy an assemblage.
Hastily the bonds were loosed, and the gag removed, and the groaning Cabinet Minister led, half carried to the Zaire. He recovered sufficiently to take dinner that night, was full of his adventures, inclined perhaps to exaggerate his peril, pardonably exasperated against the man who had led him through so many dangers, real and imaginary. But, above all things, he was grateful to Sanders.
Reassuring as he had found the sentinel's extemporized yarn, proof positive that the fellow had had no more right to prohibit a trespass than Kirkwood to commit one, at the same time he found himself pardonably a prey to emotions of the utmost consternation and alarm.
She was impressed. She knew not what to say. "But, Priam " "He's paid me five hundred to-day for that picture I've just finished." "Five hund " Priam snatched the notes from his pocket, and with a gesture pardonably dramatic he bade her count them. "Count them," he repeated, when she hesitated. "Is it right?" he asked when she had finished. "Oh, it's right enough," she agreed.
Behold me now speeding northwards on the wings of love, ballasted by Mr. Romaine. But, indeed, that worthy man climbed into the calèche with something less than his habitual gravity. He was obviously and pardonably flushed with triumph. I observed that now and again he smiled to himself in the twilight, or drew in his breath and emitted it with a martial pouf!
She had, unfortunately, neglected to wait until the gentleman playing ahead of her had progressed more than fifteen yards down the fairway, and her ball, traveling at a velocity of 1675 f.s., has caught the gentleman squarely in the half-pint bottle. It is, however, nothing so serious as you will pardonably suppose.
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