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He spent that summer in the west of England, visiting "Bristol, Exeter, Bastable? Bodman, Perin, Foy, Milborow, Saltash, Dartmouth, Absom, Pattnesse, and the most of the gentry in Cornwall and Devonshire, giving them books and maps," and inciting them to help his enterprise.
He spent that summer in the west of England, visiting "Bristol, Exeter, Bastable? Bodman, Perin, Foy, Milborow, Saltash, Dartmouth, Absom, Pattnesse, and the most of the gentry in Cornwall and Devonshire, giving them books and maps," and inciting them to help his enterprise.
When it is, Albert's uncle will only have himself to thank if we are rapidly overpowered, because it will be his fault that we shall have to meet them totally unarmed, and be their almost unresisting prey. It began one morning at breakfast. It was the fifteenth of August the birthday of Napoleon the Great, Oswald Bastable, and another very nice writer.
It was her invariable plan to speak in a sleepy, comfortable voice whenever she was unusually keen about anything; it put people off their guard, and they frequently fell in with her wishes before they had realized that she was really asking for anything. Lady Bastable, however, was not so easily taken unawares; possibly she knew that voice and what it betokened at any rate, she knew Clovis.
"I particularly don't want to take him to the MacGregors', and it will only be for six days." "It will seem longer," said Lady Bastable dismally. "The last time he stayed here for a week " "I know," interrupted the other hastily, "but that was nearly two years ago. He was younger then."
"Of course, I don't know anything about writing books," she said. "Yes?" my tone implied, or I hope it did, that she was an expert on books, and that if she was not it didn't matter. "But I don't think you do your heroines well. Bastable & Kirby, 6s. Satirical. All about Society of which I know less than I know about chicken-farming. Slated by Times and Spectator. "No," I said. "No.
So I suppose rays of remorse penetrated that cold heart, and now perhaps he will be a reformed Bastable. I am sure I hope so, but I believe it is difficult, if not impossible, for a leopard to change his skin. Still, I remember how indelibly black he looked when he came out of the fatal bath-room; and it nearly all wore off.
Lady Bastable was roused from the world of newspaper lore by hearing a Japanese screen in the hall go down with a crash. Then the door leading from the hall flew open and her young guest tore madly through the room, shrieked at her in passing, "The jacquerie! They're on us!" and dashed like an escaping hawk out through the French window.
"If you'll have him here for these six days I'll cancel that outstanding bridge account." It was only for forty-nine shillings, but Lady Bastable loved shillings with a great, strong love. To lose money at bridge and not to have to pay it was one of those rare experiences which gave the card-table a glamour in her eyes which it could never otherwise have possessed. Mrs.
When everyone had had as much tea as they possibly could, the Colonel shook hands with us all, and to Oswald he said 'Well, good-bye, my brave scout. I must mention your name in my dispatches to the War Office. H. O. interrupted him to say, 'His name's Oswald Cecil Bastable, and mine is Horace Octavius. I wish H. O. would learn to hold his tongue.
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