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Neither Mr Toots nor Mr Feeder could partake of this or any other snuff, even in the most stinted and moderate degree, without being seized with convulsions of sneezing. Nevertheless it was their great delight to moisten a box-full with cold tea, stir it up on a piece of parchment with a paper-knife, and devote themselves to its consumption then and there.
By the evening the whole town knew that I was ill and had to go into the country. M. de Chavigni said pleasantly at dinner to the doctor, that he should have forbidden me all feminine visitors; and my lame friend, refining on the idea, added that I should above all be debarred access to certain portraits, of which I had a box-full.
"Why not send him a small box-full of the stones and let him experiment on them with the model he has in father's office?" asked Jim, eagerly. "If Polly will give us some I will send them on with a letter of explanation," returned Kenneth. "Of course! Take all you want. Every one is welcome to them," said Polly, breaking off a cluster of fresh stones from the wall.
"You must ride back with these Kurds, but I have no authority over them. They are not my men. They seem to like gold more than most things." So Tugendheim ceased begging for himself and rode away rather despondently in the midst of the Kurds; and we followed about a day and a half behind the German party with their strange box-full of machinery.
"Mr Walter Gerard without his pedigree is a mere flash in the pan; and I defy him to prove anything without the deed of '77." "Well, he has not got that," said Lord de Mowbray. "Safe, of course?" said Mr Hatton. "Certain. I almost wish I had burnt it as well as the whole box-full." "Destroy that deed and the other muniments, and the Earl de Mowbray will never be Baron Valence," said Mr Hatton.
By the evening the whole town knew that I was ill and had to go into the country. M. de Chavigni said pleasantly at dinner to the doctor, that he should have forbidden me all feminine visitors; and my lame friend, refining on the idea, added that I should above all be debarred access to certain portraits, of which I had a box-full.
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