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Go and tell him you're very sorry, and shake hands." "Ah! you don't understand our ways here, Brigley. He wouldn't take the apology. He don't like me going there to practice, because it was all through young Smithson, for he hates him like poison." "Yes, or he wouldn't have said what he did," cried Jerry. "It was too bad."
It's the cat out of the bag, and no mistake!" "One moment, colonel," cried Lacey firmly. "Brigley never drinks. Look here, my man, you said foul play. Do you know who was likely to injure Smithson?" "Smithson!" cried Jerry in contemptuous tones. "I don't care; I will speak now. Smithson do I know? Yes, sir, I do; and I ought to have spoke before, when he was missing first."
Smithson should prosper in his wooing it would be better for her, Lady Kirkbank, who would have a claim upon his kindness ever after. 'What can be your motive in refusing one of the very best matches of the season or of ever so many seasons?
And he continued, as the girl opened her notebook and poised the pencil: "Be sure to have Smithson post a copy of it conspicuously in all the girls' dressing-rooms, and in the reading-room, and in the lunch-rooms, and in the assembly-room."
Now, you go out and take a look round for her. And go to the cab-stand at the corner of the Moot Hall, and just find out if she's taken a taxi from them, and if so, where she wanted to be driven to. And then come back and tell me and when you come back, stay inside the house with Smithson."
I don't know whether that condition of mind means happiness. I should call it an intermediate state. 'Why do you make silly jokes about serious questions? Do you think Lesbia means to accept this Mr. Smithson? 'All London thinks so. 'And is he a good man? 'Good for a hundred thousand pounds at half an hour's notice. 'Is he worthy of your sister?
Yes, great God, the men at the Squadron Club are staking their money upon my sister's character even monkeys that she bolts with Montesma five to three against the marriage with Smithson ever coming off. 'Is this true. 'It is as true as your marriage with Molly, as true as your loyalty to me.
Smithson, on the evening of his friend's return, "and if you keep quiet and do as I tell you she'll begin to see it too. As I said before, she can't name the day till you ask her." Mr. Clarkson agreed, and the following morning, when he called upon Mrs. Phipps at her request, his manner was so distant that she attributed it to ill-health following business worries and the atmosphere of London.
"But Miss Smithson said perhaps she could hire the Indian costumes." Mrs. Procter's expression lightened. "Well, perhaps she can," she said. "And if she can't, mother?" Suzanna breathlessly awaited the answer. "Well, we'll manage some way." And Suzanna was satisfied. A week later Mr. Procter returned home, carrying a mysterious looking parcel. "For you, Suzanna," he said, his eyes sparkling.
Smithson's money, backed by the Maulevrier influence, would go a long way. My grandmother would move heaven and earth in a case of that kind. You had better take pity on Smithson. Lesbia laughed. That idea of a possible peerage elevated Smithson in her eyes. She knew nothing of his political career, as she lived in a set which ignored politics altogether. Mr.
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