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'He's been dancing pretty constant attendance, hasn't he? 'Ra-ther. He says if I don't write him every day after he buzzes back, he'll stick his head over the parapet and spoil a Hun bullet. 'Those things come easily to Horace. 'Oh, do they? I notice he doesn't go to you to say them. 'No, said Elise with a smile, 'that is so. Think of the thrills I miss. 'Now don't get sarcastic.
She raised her eyebrows a bit, but hesitated. "Oh yes no, I don't suppose he does. Or anyway, mostly about the violin. He played a lot when he was in Yale." Thus was Carl encouraged to be fatuous, and he said, in a manner which quite dismissed Phil Dunleavy: "I don't believe he's very deep. Ra-ther light, I'd say." Her eyebrows had ascended farther. "Do you think so? I'm sorry." "Why sorry?"
No more was the Lady in the Moon. They got rid of each other quickly and skilfully. Afterward, Ena buttonholed me and sat me down on a hard settee in a beastly furnished room like a rathskeller, with price tags on everything, and made me solemnly swear not to split to Rolls." "About your meeting Miss Child?" "Ra-ther! And all the rest of it." "What rest?" "A lot of rubbish.
It's a pretty good step." "Six miles." "Je-hoshaphat!" "Well, it's no use waiting for the 'bus. We should never get places." "Let's take that short cut that Stuart was talking about. She said it saves two miles." "What a brain wave! It's only a quarter past four. We'd be home long before dark. You can walk four miles an hour, can't you?" "Ra-ther!"
"Chummed up with ole Black Whiskers I did, and promised 'im a 'and ternight at twelve o'clock ter do some loadin' on ter the fishin' boats wot's on their way ter Belgium. 'You're a nice-seemin' sort er lad, he tole me after we'd bin chattin' fer ten minutes or so. 'Want ter make a bit of extra money by 'oldin' of your tongue? I was on it like a knife. 'Ra-ther! I ses. 'Orl right, ses 'e.
Margot is ra-ther brown herself, but she has gray hair and black eyes and she's fat and she wears a blue dress, vairee old and clean and faded and a big white apron. Her voice isn't pretty I'm afraid, but her song is. Her song is the oldest song I've evaire heard. There was a Frenchman, Maitre Guerdon, who made it a long time ago.
And then you will come out and down we'll go. It will really be a great favor if you will it's a big house, my house and I'm ra-ther lonely " It wasn't until they were outside in the shadowy, rain-sweet street that Dulcie realized she had been coaxed that far. She drew back. "I've no hat," she whimpered, "It's no use I don't want to go "
The minutes seemed like ages but at length, just as the angry voice was subsiding, the old man straightened victoriously on his pillows. "Check!" he called buoyantly, "Check!" Felicia arose. "You play adroitly," she encouraged him. "And I'm really ra-ther glad I stole your luncheon for here comes your supper. I know you'll be hungry for your supper "
"Very good company." "You insured, Mr. Polly?" "He deserves to be," said Rumbold. "Ra-ther," said Hinks. "Blowed if he don't. Hard lines it would be if there wasn't something for him." "Commercial and General," answered Mr. Polly over his shoulder, still staring out of the window. "Oh! I'm all right." The topic dropped for a time, though manifestly it continued to exercise their minds.
Would you like to hear about it?" "Ra-ther!" Dick and Jerry replied together. So Major Campbell told them the story that they already knew nearly as well as he did himself in fact, Mollie found herself on the point of correcting him upon one or two points. He told it well, better than he had done on that agitating occasion so many years ago, but he did not divulge the mystery.
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