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And then suddenly there came a soft call, "Topham! Topham!" I leaned back and bit my fingers till I knew I wouldn't shriek. The Englishman listened a minute. Then the call came again, and Topham creaked to the door and out. In a twinkling I was out, too, you bet. Mag! He hadn't opened the box at all! There it stood in the middle of the space framed by the three glasses. I pulled at the lid.
This promise which had, in fact, been given was legally impossible of performance, and upon the failure of his attempt the disappointed Topham turned upon the Dean, and maintained that by him, at any rate, he had been promised another place of the value of five guineas per annum, and appropriately known as the "Commissaryship of Pickering and Pocklington." This the Dean denied, and thereupon Dr.
Topham Beauclerk, who had heard of the episode below and wished to hear more. He swore at the duke. "He will be run through some day, and serve him jolly right," said he. "Bet you twenty pounds Charles Fox does it! His Grace knows he has the courage to fight him." "The courage!" I repeated. "Yes. Angelo says the duke has diabolical skill. And then he won't fight fair.
Just when we were all rather despairing, because Dr. Topham said that Jerry mustn't walk for two days more, the very thing happened which we'd been hoping for. Greg came up all the porch steps at once with one bounce, brandishing a square envelope and shouting: "The Bottle Man!"
When I make up my mind about a thing, I'm not easily dismayed. If I could have your help, sir The necessity of making a definite proposal turned Topham pale; he was so afraid of asking too much. Almost in spite of himself, he at length spoke. 'Suppose we say if I reside with you that you pay me a salary of, well, £200 a year? The next moment he inwardly raged.
Now and then he gave himself the satisfaction of finding fault: just to remind Topham that his bread depended on another's goodwill. Congenial indolence grew upon him, but he talked only the more of his ceaseless exertions. Sometimes in the evening he would throw up his arms, yawn wearily, and declare that so much toil with such paltry results was a heart-breaking thing.
He was growing more and more embarrassed. Evidently the man had something he wished to say, something to which he had been leading up by this disclosure of his domestic affairs; but he could not utter his thoughts. Topham tried the commonplaces naturally suggested by the situation; they were received with gratitude, but still Mr. Wigmore hung his head and talked vaguely, with hesitations, pauses.
Topham had come to the door of the cantina, his hand outstretched. "Welcome back, Hunt!" "Paugh!" The Mexican spat. "Where is there one Indio who is able to face Don Cazar on his own ground? The folly of that they learned long ago." Don Cazar smiled. That mask of aloofness was wiped away as if he were ten years younger and twenty years less responsible than he had been only seconds earlier.
Topham ran in with a huge loving-cup, and, drinking all our good healths, it was passed through the company. "When the servant brought it to me, Mr. Manners took it from him, and held it for me himself by both handles, saying "'It is too heavy for your hands; and I drank, he quoting in jest from Hamlet "'Nymph, in thine orisons be all my sins remembered.
"The diamond, the rose diamond!" she shrieked. "It's gone! And the carpenters say that new girl Olden came flying from the direction of my dressing-room. I'll hold you responsible " "Hush-sh!" Obermuller lifted his hands and nodded over toward me. "Olden!" she squealed. "Grab her, Topham. I'll bet she stole that diamond, and she can't have got rid of it yet."
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