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Some cases do baffle everybody. It's such very delicate work." "You sometimes find you let in a rotter?" said Mr. Purcey, "or, I should say, a rotter lets you in! Ha, ha!" Mrs. Tallents Smallpeace's eyes flew deliciously down his figure. "Not often," she said; and turning rather markedly once more to Stephen: "Have you any special case that you are interested in, Mr. Dallison?"
The girl is not worth your looking after. Turn her over to that Society Mrs. Tallents Smallpeace's thing whatever it's called." At a sound as of mirth Stephen, who was not accustomed to hear his brother laugh, looked round. "Martin," said Hilary, "also wants the case to be treated on strictly hygienic grounds."
Her attitude of mind towards them was, in fact, similar-a sort of pleasurable dread-to that in which she purchased the Westminster Gazette to feel the pulse of social progress. Mrs. Tallents Smallpeace's dark little eyes twinkled. "I hear that Mr. Stone that is your father's name, I think is writing a book which will create quite a sensation when it comes out." Cecilia bit her lips.
Purcey, with his accustomed shrewdness. Stephen gave him the look with which he was accustomed to curdle the blood of persons who gave evidence before Commissions. 'This fellow is impossible, he thought. The little black bees flying below Mrs. Tallents Smallpeace's dark hair, done in the Early Italian fashion, tranquilly sucked honey from Stephen's face.
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