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The question recalled an old hot-headed time when, exalted to a frolicsome zone by the discovery of Lady Honoria Pomfret's love for him, he planned the famous jest which he and the mad Earl of Pevensey perpetrated upon Umfraville. This masquerade won quick applause.
One unforeseen result of Mrs. Pomfret's arrangement was that the first eleven rows were vacant, with the exception of one old man and five or six schoolboys. Such is the courage of humanity in general!
"I spent two valuable hours with that reporter givin' him material and statistics, and I can't find that he's used a word of it." "Never you mind about that," Mr. Tooting replied. "The more advertising you get, the better, and this shows that the right people are behind you. Mrs. Pomfret's a smart woman, all right. She knows her job.
He would have turned away and taken himself off in disappointment, but that the clank of the gate had attracted attention, and he had no choice but to move forward. The strangers proved to be Mrs. Pomfret's brother and his daughter; they had been spending half a year in the south of France, and were here for a day or two before returning to their home at Bath.
Mr. Crewe was a little late. Important matters, he said, had detained him at the last moment, and he particularly enjoined Mrs. Pomfret's butler to listen carefully for the telephone, and twice during lunch it was announced that Mr. Crewe was wanted.
I've got a stock on." "I said the Queen had. Besides, when you put your face up to mine just now " "Hush! Besides, you were looking me in the eyes all the time, so " "And, if I was, do you blame me?" "I'm not in the witness-box now, counsel." "No, but you're sitting on Pomfret's rug, and Pomfret is but the " She began to laugh helplessly. "Come along, Alice," I said. "'Yet so God made me.
"I spent two valuable hours with that reporter givin' him material and statistics, and I can't find that he's used a word of it." "Never you mind about that," Mr. Tooting replied. "The more advertising you get, the better, and this shows that the right people are behind you. Mrs. Pomfret's a smart woman, all right. She knows her job.
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