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Go through, an' make straight for a clump of cedars on top of a little hill. There mayn't be much of a path, but that's it. It's reelly a short cut to the Easton gate on the London road." Yet who could guess what a snare for an artist's feet lay in those few words?

Can't you see what a miserable sham the thing is a cheap, tawdry imitation of the splendid classic type? Why, by merely exhibiting such a thing, you're vitiating public taste, sir corrupting it." Leander did not quite follow this rebuke, which he thought was probably based upon the goddess's antecedents. "Was she reelly as bad as that, sir?" he said.

"Gentle-folks, sir, rich folks like you an' m'lud. 'I'd gillertine the lot, if I'd my way, he says, 'like the Frenchies did in Ninety-three, 'e says. But 'e wouldn't reelly o'course, for Nick's very tender-hearted, though 'e don't like it known. So we 're pals, we are, and I often drop in to smoke a pipe wiv 'im " "What! Do you smoke, Imp?"

And to emphasize the fact, she sniffed scornfully. "To be sure! An' a fine, handsome nose it is, Mrs. Gammit!" replied the woodsman, diplomatically. "But what you don't appear to know about skunks is that when they're up to mischief is jest the time when you don't smell 'em. Ye got to bear that in mind!" Mrs. Gammit looked at him with suspicion. "Be that reelly so?" demanded she, sternly.

He remembered it, the funny little word that summed up her evasiveness, her reluctance, her absurdity. She was still standing by the doorstep, stroking the sham porphyry pillar with her childish hand, as if she wanted to see what it was made of. "It isn't reelly marble," Ransome said. She gazed at him, wondering. "What isn't?" "That pillar."

Why, to be sure, didn't I know a lady, a widow of a clergyman: he was a postermost child, and afore his birth that women read nothin' but Blair's 'Grave' over and over again, from the end to the beginnin'; that's a serious book! very hard readin'! and at four years of age that child that come of it reelly was the piousest infant! he was like a little curate. His eyes was up; he talked so solemn."

"There's a row," said Fancy, and told about the sale of the parrot. "That Mrs Bosenna's at the bottom of it, as I've said all along," she concluded. "Do you reelly think the bird has been talking?" "I don't think: I know." Mrs Bowldler pondered a moment. "Ho! well she's a widow."

If I hadn't been there that night she couldn't have gone, Ranny. She wouldn't have left the children. She wouldn't, reelly. And I hadn't the sense to see it then." "I'm glad you hadn't." "Oh, why?" "Because then you wouldn't have been there. I knew you were trying to keep it all together. But it was bound to go. It couldn't have lasted. She'd have gone anyhow.

Caroline Smith tells me that she knows nothing at all, seen nothing, been nowhere. Bad-tempered I should think." "Dear, dear," said Mr. Thurston with a gratified sigh, "is it so reelly?" Martin looked across at his sister indignantly. "Trust one woman about another," he said. "Just because she doesn't chatter like a magpie you concluded she's got nothing to say.

"You don't seem to get much of a crowd down here. Rum old place, ain't it?" Already Joanna was beginning to notice a difference between his outlook and Martin's. "What d'you do with yourself out here all day?" he continued. "I've plenty to do." "Well, it seems to agree with you I never saw anyone look finer. You're reelly a wonder, old thing."