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My! my! if some folks I know could see you now, Gertie, they'd.... Ahem! Well, never mind. She looks as if she was expectin' company and had rigged up for it, doesn't she, Serena?" Gertrude paid little attention to this rather strained attempt at a joke. She merely smiled and turned away. But her mother appeared to suspect a hidden meaning in the words. She leaned forward and gazed at her husband.
"I am going out for a moment, Dorothy just over to the doctor's. How de do, Mr. Nisbet? Wretched weather, isn't it? Natalie's with your father, my dear, and I'll be back almost immediately. Er ahem!" Mrs. Rathbawne went through a kind of rudimentary calisthenic exercise, which consisted of squaring her shoulders and drawing in her chin.
"H'm, er ahem!" said the Mayor. "You mean that little joke of mine; of course that was a joke." "I do not joke," said the Piper very quietly; "my thousand guineas, if you please." "Oh, come, now," said the Mayor, "you know very well it wasn't worth sixpence to play a little tune like that; call it one guinea, and let it go at that."
I had heard a great deal about the big Indian village at Thorntown, and was vastly disappointed in what I found. I am quite romantic, Miss ahem! quite romantic by nature, having read and listened to tales of thrilling adventures among the redskins, as we call them down my way, until I could scarce contain myself.
"Ahem," said I, still intent on the "Comic Almanac." This would not do; I resolved to wait a little longer, just a quarter of an hour by the clock, and see whether he would not have the common civility to speak to me. What a long quarter of an hour it was! The hand reached it at last it passed it I gave him another five minutes. It was getting painful.
I have always understood that swearing was taking the name of the Almighty in vain?" "Well, it isn't ahem refined," said the doctor, winking at Miss Oliver. "No, doctor, dear, the devil and the Kaiser if so be that they are really two different people are not refined. And you cannot refer to them in a refined way.
"You will observe, Miss Brewster, that he carries a dirk in his belt, a ahem a most unusual thing for a ship's officer to do. While really very estimable, Mr. Van Weyden is sometimes how shall I say? er quarrelsome, and harsh measures are necessary. He is quite reasonable and fair in his calm moments, and as he is calm now he will not deny that only yesterday he threatened my life."
But John Paul's greatest triumph was yet to come. For presently Mr. Marmaduke arrived from White's, and when he had greeted me with effusion he levelled his glass at the corner of the room. "Ahem!" he exclaimed. "Pray, my dear, whom have you invited to-day?"
"Alan wasn't the name of the people Sir Harry's let to." "Nonsense, Freddy! You know nothing about it." "Nonsense yourself! I've this minute seen him. He said to me: 'Ahem! Honeychurch," Freddy was an indifferent mimic "'ahem! ahem! I have at last procured really dee-sire-rebel tenants. I said, 'ooray, old boy! and slapped him on the back." "Exactly. The Miss Alans?" "Rather not.
He would have said more, but 'Bias turned roughly from him to demand of the women "Well, what did he say? . . . Did he say it in your hearin', ma'am?" "Ahem! er partially so," owned Mrs Bosenna. "It's no use you're askin' what he said," added Dinah; "for no decent woman could tell it.
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