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She then put into his hand the end of a brass tube about an inch in diameter and a foot long, and said: “Give be the tibe of your birth as dear as possible.” This was done, and the following brief dialogue ensued:— “Was you bord id the bording?” “I really don’t remember.” “Do you have beddy dreabs?” “I do not dream much.” “Thed you dod’t have bad dreabs?” “No.”
Judge Volney Bording, ornament to the legal profession, was a hearty eater, and it was not long before he sent his plate for a second helping, and again Clarissa heard from the closed lips of Leadbury, in a voice that seemed to float up from his very feet: "Next. Next. You're next, Miss Bording. What'll it be?"
But though Miss Bording gave a courteous and interested attention and laughed at the anecdotes of the dog, she irked at the necessity of silence, which the garrulity of her host placed her under and was desirous of having the conversation become general and of a more entertaining, elevated and instructive character.
In the midst of a pause where he was occupied in putting his soup-spoon into his mouth, Miss Bording remarked: "Please do not talk about commonplace American subjects, Mr. Leadbury. Tell us of your foreign life. Tell us of Algeria. What sort of a country is Algeria?"
Upon his death, James Leadbury left his entire property' but," said Leadbury, looking up, "I have previously covered that point." "But tell us of your weapons," interposed Miss Bording.
Having ceased his disquisition at this accident, so disconcerting to the judge, Miss Bording very prettily and promptly thanked him for his information and saying that she now had a clear understanding of the principal facts pertaining to Algeria, abruptly changed the subject by asking him if he had heard anything more concerning his second cousin, the barber. "There is nothing more to be heard.
"Oh, yes," said Leadbury, gaily, responding to a remark of Miss Bording, as they entered the room and saw the uncertain shape of a large chair vaguely looming in the gloom; "I secured the fauteuil of Ab del Kader after we had stormed the last stronghold of that unfortunate prince.
He has already devoured, since this bording, in wild prodigality, two francs and ninety-five centibes." And Grantaire began again: "Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?" Bossuet, though very drunk, preserved his equanimity.
Clarissa preceded the others as they slowly descended, with all her ears open to hear whatsoever William Leadbury might say to Eulalia Bording, and it was so that she noted a strange little creaking above them, and looking up, saw poised upon the edge of the balustrade in the upper hall, impending over the head of William Leadbury and ready to fall, the great barber chair!
Clarissa could have fallen at his feet, he looked so handsome and grand, and she could have scratched out the eyes of Eulalia Bording, whose gaze betrayed an admiration equal to her own. Asbury Fuller, yet not wearing quite his wonted appearance, for the luxuriant locks of auburn had gone and his head was covered with a short, though thick crop of chestnut. "You exposed yourself.
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