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That was a bad joke on Alic!" "Since you air so solicitous about France and the Emperor, may I ask you how your own country is getting along?" sed Jerome, in a pleasant voice. "It's mixed," I sed. But I think we shall cum out all right." "Columbus, when he diskivered this magnificent continent, could hav had no idee of the grandeur it would one day assoom," sed the Prints.
"If the latter's no absolutely certain, it's very likely." "You have answered only half my question." Mrs. Nairn smiled. "Alic," she explained, "is reserved by nature; but if ye're anxious for an answer, I might tell ye." "Anxious hardly describes it." "Then we'll say curious.
"I'm thinking ye'll no see so much of Jessy for the next few weeks," Nairn remarked dryly. "Has she shown ye any of yon knickknacks when she has finished them?" His wife shook her head at him reproachfully. "Alic," she admonished, "ye're now and then hasty in jumping at conclusions." "Maybe. I'm no infallible, but the fault ye mention is no common in the land where we were born.
"It's no unlikely. The reason may serve for the want of a better." Then she changed her tone. "Ye'll away up to Alic; he told me to send ye." Vane went out of the room, but he left Jessy in a thoughtful mood. She had seen his start at the mention of Evelyn, and it struck her as significant, for she had heard that he had spent some time with the Chisholms.
"Weel," replied Nairn resignedly; "I can no deny the thing, if ye look at it like that." Carroll changed the subject; but some time later Mrs. Nairn sat down near him in the temporary absence of her husband and Evelyn. "We will no be disturbed for two or three minutes," she said. "Ye answered Alic like a Scotsman before supper and put him off the track, though that's no so easy done."
"I had ye shown in here, because this room is mine, and I can smoke when I like. The rest of the house is Mrs. Nairn's, and it seems that her friends do not appreciate the smell of my cigars. I'm no sure that I can blame them." Mrs. Nairn smiled placidly. "Alic," she explained, "leaves them lying everywhere, and I do not like the stubs of them on the stairs.
"I'd have kept to weather of the bark, where we'd have had room to luff, if I'd expected that burst of wind," he explained. "Did you hurt yourself against the coaming, Mrs. Nairn?" The lady smiled reassuringly. "It's no worth mentioning, and I'm no altogether unused to it. Alic once kept a boat and would have me out with him."
This pleased Jerome, and he took me warmly by the hand. "Alexander the Grate was punkins," I continnered, "but Napoleon was punkinser! Alic wept becaws there was no more worlds to scoop, and then took to drinkin. He drowndid his sorrers in the flowin bole, and the flowin bole was too much for him. It ginerally is. He undertook to give a snake exhibition in his boots, but it killed him.
A moment or two later her hostess entered hastily. "It's a message from Alic," she cried. "He's heard from the wharf Vane's sloop's crossing the harbor. I'll away down to see Carroll brings him here." Evelyn turned to follow her, but Mrs. Nairn waved her back. "No," she said firmly; "ye'll bide where ye are.
"On the other hand, I hardly think that even one of your suppers would quite have put right the defect in my appearance you mentioned. You see, the cause of it has been at work for some time." Mrs. Nairn regarded him with half-amused compassion. "If ye'll come over every evening, we'll soon cure that. I would have been down sooner if Alic had not kept me.
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