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Raby smiled, and shook his head. "That won't do. Young ladies and gentlemen of the present day don't believe in omens." "But you do know better, sir. I have heard father say you were going into Hillsborough with him one day, and a magpie flew across, and father persuaded you to turn back." "That is true; he was going in to buy some merino sheep, and I to deposit my rents in Carrington's bank.
Carrington's in about four minutes. As they hauled Wiggins along the garden path, the Terror, said to Erebus: "You bolt home as hard as you can go. You must be awfully wet and cold; and if you don't want to be laid up, the sooner you take some quinine and get to bed the better."
So powerful is self-deception, that he almost succeeded in persuading himself that he had no part in Carrington's plots that he did not know at what he was aiming and that he was, personally, absolved from any share in the crime that was being perpetrated, if crime there was; but that there was, he even affected himself to doubt.
At Miss Johnson's open flouting, Cicily had flushed painfully. Now, however, she was ready with a retort to Mrs. Carrington's implied criticism: "Oh, on the contrary!" she exclaimed. "Why, I was chief rooter of the Pi Iota Gammas, when I went to boarding-school at Briarcliff."
At his age, and to ladies of Miss Carrington's age, men unhappily do not plunge head-foremost, or Miss Carrington would have had him long before. But he was at least in for it half a leg; and a desperate maiden, on the criminal side of thirty, may make much of that. Previous to the visit of the Countess de Saldar, Mr.
Ratcliffe's object had been to settle for his own satisfaction the question of Carrington's hostility, for he knew the man well enough to feel sure that in any event he would act a perfectly straightforward part. If he accepted, he would at least be true to his chief. If he refused, as Ratcliffe expected, it would be a proof that some means must be found of getting him out of the way.
George was for accompanying them, till the line of Miss Carrington's back gave him her unmistakeable opinion of such a course of conduct, and he had to dally and fret by her side. Andrew's arm was tightly grasped by the Countess. The rivals were crossing the second field, Laxley a little a-head. 'He 's holding in the black mare that fellow! said Mr. George. 'Gad, it looks like going at the fence.
"And I've got rid of that pheasant. I sold it to Mr. Carrington's cook as I came through the village. I thought it was better out of the way." "Then that's all right. We only want about another half-crown," said Erebus. Mr. Carrington found Mr.
Its ugly apparition and the sharp amazing painfulness of its bite were too much for Mr. Carrington's equilibrium. He felt himself going, and yelled aloud. Over he toppled, face foremost, splash! into the pool. The boy saw him vanish, and heard the splashing of his struggle in the water.
It had flashed on him that he might just catch Mr. Carrington at his office. Mr. Flexen did find Mr. Carrington at his office, and Mr. Carrington's first words were: "Well, have you found the mysterious woman?" "I've found the mysterious woman, and she's now Mrs. Herbert Manley," said Mr. Flexen. Mr. Carrington stared at him, then he said softly: "Well, I'm damned!"
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