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"But we're apt to be careless about hundred-pound notes in this district. I daresay that's why I always carry one." "But it's burnt!" "Only just the edge. Not enough to harm it. If any bank in England refuses it, return it to me and I'll give you a couple more in exchange. Is that talking?" "Well, I'm dashed!" Mr. Bryany attempted to rise, and then subsided back into his chair.
Edward Henry had often been to Longshaw, but, like every visitor from Bursley, he instinctively regarded it as a foolish and unnecessary place. "As I was saying," resumed Mr. Bryany, quite unintimidated, "I'm an Englishman. But I've lived eighteen years in America, and it seems to me the bottom will soon be knocked out of pretty nearly all the markets in England. Look at the Five Towns!"
Bryany, did their best, each in his own way, to make him feel at home. "Take this chair, Machin," said Stirling, indicating a chair at the front. "Oh! I can't take the front chair!" Edward Henry protested. "Of course you can, my dear Machin!" said Brindley, sharply. "The front chair in a stage-box is the one proper seat in the house for you. Do as your doctor prescribes."
Bryany was innocent of this deception, which had been accomplished by Robert Brindley, but that was a detail which did not trouble Edward Henry, who lumped his grievances together for convenience.
Bryany provided cigarettes and whisky, Edward Henry was providing only cigarettes and Vichy water. Mr. Seven Sachs had said that he never took whisky; and though Edward Henry's passion for Vichy water was not quite ungovernable, he thought well to give rein to it on the present occasion, having read somewhere that Vichy water placated the stomach. Joseph had been instructed to retire.
England one day America the next." I couldn't keep a proper eye on an affair of that kind." Edward Henry laughed: "And could I?" "Chance for you to go a bit oftener to London," said Mr. Bryany, laughing too. Then, with extreme and convincing seriousness, "You're the very man for a thing of that kind. And you know it!" Edward Henry was not displeased by this flattery. "How much?" "How much?
"No, don't, Mr. Bryany!" said Brindley. "Don't go to extremes!" "Personally, I don't mind looking at the Five Towns," said Edward Henry. "What of it?" "Well, did you ever see such people for looking twice at a five-pound note?" Edward Henry most certainly did not like this aspersion on his native district. He gazed in silence at Mr.
Bryany did tell me," Edward Henry admitted sternly. "But if Mr. Bryany can make a mistake in the day of the week he might make a mistake in a few noughts at the end of a sum of money." Suddenly Mr. Seven Sachs startled them all by emerging from his silence with the words: "The figure is O.K." Instinctively Edward Henry waited for more; but no more came. Mr.
He himself was a celebrity. A certain quality in the attitude of each of his guests showed clearly that they considered him a celebrity, and not only a celebrity but a card Bryany must have been talking and the conviction of this rendered him happy. His magnificent hunger rendered him still happier. And the reflection that Brindley owed him half-a-crown put a top on his bliss!
Long's Muzzling Order, as cited by his infant son, an odd case of rabies should have lingered in the British Isles, and supposing that Carlo had been infected ...! Not impossible ...! Was it providential that Dr. Stirling was in the auditorium? "You know two of them?" said Mr. Dakins. "Yes." "Well, the third's a Mr. Bryany. He's manager to Mr. Seven Sachs." Mr. Dakins' tone was respectful.
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