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Did he play polo, his most brilliant hits just failed to make the goal. His gravity and his gentleness increased in proportion with his ill-luck. No one ever backed Toffy, and no one believed in his best efforts.
Kitty was talking as lightly as usual, deliberately misunderstanding everything that was said to her, and being as provoking as she ever was; and Toffy was so much in earnest that he did not see Peter and Jane, but continued to talk to the girl beside him. So the two intruders never entered the room at all; but, as they pursued their way still farther, Peter was thinking about Mrs.
Toffy finished reading the letter and groaned. 'Was she never to have a good time! he wondered, thinking of the dull room and the half-finished blouses upon the table, the economical gas jets in the fireplace in lieu of the glow of a bright fire, and the dingy paper on the walls. The whole thing was too hard on her, he thought, and everything in the world seemed to be against her.
Then she turned her head "Lulu! you mustn't eat any more toffy!" and she flung out a mischievous hand and captured a box that was lying on the table, before a girl, who was sitting near it with a book, could abstract from it another square of toffy. "Give it me!" said Lulu, springing up, and making for her assailant.
Neither the mother nor the younger woman knew where was to be found, at the present moment, that hero of adventure who was called the Grinder, and all the police of Wiltshire began to fear that they were about to be outwitted. "You never were at Bullhampton with your husband, I suppose?" asked Mr. Toffy. "Never," said the supposed Grinder's wife; "but what does it matter to you where I was?"
'Life is sweet, perhaps, to some of us, and no doubt the whole crew would have swamped the boat, but 'But, all the same, said Toffy, 'you don't mean to let Purvis-Smith get a very light time of it when you do get him. 'No, I don't, said Dunbar. Ross passed out through the door of the little drawing-room to the corridor, and went to see about some work on the farm.
'Ships sailing for Argentine stop at Lisbon and take up passengers there, said Mr. Semple. 'I have been to Lisbon since I last saw you. Mrs. Ogilvie paid the passage-money for a married couple and a child who sailed from that place in December of the year in which your brother is said to have died. 'I think I 'll go over and see Toffy, said Peter to himself one day in the following week. Mr.
'When will the fraud be discovered? asked Jane. 'Gilbert Carstairs is quite a good sort, but his wife has very little sense of humour. 'Oh, I left a note all right in the coach-house, answered Toffy, 'and I pointed out to Gilbert that he had no right to encourage burglaries by having inefficient locks on his coach-house doors.
We exchanged half-a-dozen blows, whereupon he consented to apologize, and roared, 'Hulloa, pig-iron, sorry if I hurt you. Temple urged me to insist on the rascal's going on his knees for flinging at a girl. 'Why, said Chaunter, 'you were the first to call her pig-iron. Temple declared he was a blackguard if he said that. I made the girl take a piece of toffy.
'I asked her in the morning if my sheets had been aired, and she said that they had not. She further explained that she had taken the precaution of feeling them, and that they had not seemed very wet! 'Oh, hang Mrs. Avory! said Peter inwardly. 'Why has not Toffy got a good wife to look after him?
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