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They alone exist." "It's vehy serious!" protested Miss Ingate. "It's vehy serious!" "We shall go to London to-morrow, shan't we, Winnie?" said Audrey across the table to her. "Yes," agreed Miss Ingate. "I think we ought. We're as free as birds. When the police have broken our arms we can come back to Paris to recover.
He straightened his shoulders, and kept them straight. He paced the floor with a tread that was martial, and once he stopped before the door with his right hand thrust under his breast-pocket, and with wrinkling brow studied the hills. It was a new man with the water in his blood changed to wine who turned suddenly on Flitter Bill Richmond: "I can collect a vehy large force in a vehy few days."
It is true, suh, these estates were no longer in his name, but that had no bearin' on the events that followed; he ought to have owned them, and would have done so but for some vehy ungentlemanly fo'closure proceedin's which occurred immediately after the war.
Subscription books close. . . . . Promoters reserve the right to advance prices without further notice. "There, Major, is a prospectus that caarries conviction on its vehy face," said the colonel, reaching for the document. I complimented the eminent financier on his skill, and was about to ask him what it all meant, when the colonel, who had been studying it carefully, broke in with:
Fitzpatrick was called suddenly away to attend to some business connected with my railroad, and left his vehy kindest regards for you, and his apologies for not seein' you befo' he left." Fitz had said nothing that resembled this, so far as my memory served me, but it was what he ought to have done, and the colonel always corrected such little slips of courtesy by supplying them himself.
I shan't feel comfortable until I've been and had my arm broken it's vehy serious." "What does she say? What is it that she says?" from the host. More interpretation. More laughter, but this time an impressed laughter. And Audrey perceived that just as she was regarding the Polish woman as romantic, so the whole company was regarding herself and Miss Ingate as romantic.
"'As Ah have told you once befoh, young man, he says, a-lookin' at the tickets. 'Ah can not blame you greatly, because you are paht of yoh times. This is the excuse Ah find foh you in thinking Ah would value money moh than the spohtsmanship of a gentleman. Yoh times are bad, young man! he says. 'They have succeeded in staining the puhple and white at the vehy end.
His face was preoccupied and overcast, but as soon as he realised that Miss Ingate was on the stairs it instantly brightened into a warm and rather wistful smile. "Good morning, Miss Ingate," he greeted her with deferential cordiality. "I'm so glad to see you back." "Good morning, good morning, Mr. Moze," responded Miss Ingate. "Vehy nice of you. Vehy nice of you."
No sooner had this man taken possession than he began to be exclusive, suh, and to put on airs. The vehy fust air he put on was to build a fence in his office and compel our people to transact their business through a hole. This in itself was vehy gallin', suh, for up to that time the mail had always been dumped out on the table in the stage office and every gentleman had he'ped himself.
"Father wouldn't let me read about it in the paper," said Audrey, still reserved. "He never will, you know. But I did!" "Oh! But you didn't read about me playing the barrel organ all the way down Regent Street, because that wasn't in any of the papers." "You didn't!" Audrey protested, with a sudden dark smile. "Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Yes, I did. And vehy tiring it was. Vehy tiring indeed.
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