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How jolly!" exclaimed Louise, clasping her hands. "Ye-as. Ain't it? Jest," Cap'n Abe said. "Ahem! your father never spoke of Cap'n Am'zon?". "I don't believe daddy-prof even knew there was such a person." "Mebbe not. Mebbe not," Cap'n Abe agreed hastily. "And not to be wondered at. You see, Am'zon went to sea when he was only jest a boy." "Did he?" "Yep.
"That will do, I say," I repeated, somewhat testily. "Do you hear, sir?" "Yes, sir," he responded. "That will do, you says." "Ahem! I ahem!" "What's this you have here." "Shoes, sir." "I see, I see. Let me have them." He handed me my own. "The others, if you please," I said, disdaining the number tens. "May I inquire, sir, where you are taking these?" I had the Countess's pumps in my hands.
He shuddered, then he sighed, and then he said ahem! and gave himself the look of a man of affairs. On men who stared at him he retorted with a frown of austere inquiry, not aware that they were merely noticing how handsome he was.
"The governor's brains are in the head of the secretary," thought I; "and their place in his own head is taken by vanity." "I remember," returned La Chatre. "And I added, did I not, that ahem, that " "That the finding of this Huguenot nuisance ought to be made the particular duty of one chosen person, who should have all to gain by success, or, better still, all to lose by failure."
Next, I have done my last little odd job in this world," yelled the now infuriated factotum, bouncing up to his feet in brief fury. "Of two things one: either Jacintha quits those aristos, or I leave Jacin eh? ah! oh! ahem! How 'ow d'ye do, Jacintha?"
As we walked away he asked my name and profession, and I thought he smiled with peculiar satisfaction when I said I was a student of medicine. "Oh, indeed!" he said; "well we shall see. But here we are. This is the house of my good friend Dobson. City man capital fellow, like all City men ahem! He has put his house at my disposal at this very trying period of my existence."
"Come in, Gus, my dear boy," he chirped, "and rest your face and hands." He turned to the stenographer. "That will be all, my dear, for the present. I can't dictate business secrets in the presence of this ahem harumph-h-h! er " His desk telephone rang. Cappy took down the receiver and grunted. "J. O. Heyfuss & Co. are calling you, Mr. Ricks," his private exchange operator announced.
"You must feel his loss, Captain Desborough," said Alice. "I am very sorry for you." "Ahem! my dear young lady, you don't seem to know how this ends." "Why, no," said Alice, looking up wonderingly; "I do not."
"There was not much chance to save on a salary of four hundred dollars a year," said Herbert, soberly, "after supporting a family of three." "Ahem!" said the squire, sagely; "where there's a will there's a way. Improvidence is the great fault of the lower classes." "We don't belong to the lower classes," said Herbert, flushing with indignation.
Thompson was pushed by the devil of his rancour to continue reading: "This Case is too well known to require more than a partial summary of particulars"... "Ahem! we will skip the particulars, however partial," said Mr. Thompson. "Ah! what do you mean here, sir, but enough! I think we may be excused your Legal Considerations on such a Case. This is how you employ your law-studies, sir!
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