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'It may be, returned Somerset; 'but what to do with mine is more than I can fancy. Mr. Godall, he added, addressing the salesman, 'you are a man who knows the world: what can a young fellow of reasonable education do with a hundred pounds? 'It depends, replied the salesman, withdrawing his cheroot. 'The power of money is an article of faith in which I profess myself a sceptic.
He avoided the Colonel's appealing looks without ostentation, and selected another cheroot with more than usual care. Indeed, he was now the only man of the party who kept any command over his nerves. The bill was discharged, the Prince giving the whole change of the note to the astonished waiter; and the three drove off in a four- wheeler.
"I fancy you irritate them as much as they irritate you, Bathurst. Well, here we are; now we will have a quiet cheroot and a peg, to quiet our nerves after all that din, before we turn in. Let us get off our coats and collars, and make ourselves comfortable; it is a proof of the bestial stupidity of mankind that they should wear such abominations as dress clothes in a climate like this.
Oddly enough, he appeared to know a good deal about the making of cigars, and his pointed comments gradually elicited a new tone from MacQueen, who was by now talking to him almost as to an equal. Several times Cally detected his eyes upon her, not bored but openly quizzical. "Learning exactly how a cheroot factory ought to be run?" he asked, sotto voce, as they left the second floor.
By two years' steady practice she was esteemed one of the best operatives in the Heth Cheroot Works; but her new passion in life was to learn from Mr. V.V. what it was to be a lady. Dearly as Kern loved beads, pins, buckles, and all that shone and glittered, her particular desire for Christmas had been a Netiquette and Complete Letter Writer, and this Mr.
The figures move quietly and speak softly, and the air is full of the rattle of crickets or cicadas and a pleasant scent of night flowers, and cheroot smoke, with a whiff of old ocean. We wait and chat outside with acquaintances, and some ladies practise curtseys whilst the natives are being received the coloured man first, the white man and his womenfolk when they may!
His attitude and expression were those of the most unmoved composure; he was smoking a cheroot with much enjoyment and deliberation, and on a table by his elbow stood a long glass of some effervescing beverage which diffused an agreeable odour through the room. "Welcome," said he, extending his hand to Colonel Geraldine. "I knew I might count on your exactitude."
Miss Westonhaugh was there in her gray habit and broad hat, and by her side, on foot, Lord Steepleton Kildare was making the most of his time, as he waited for the rest of the players. Mr. Currie Ghyrkins was ambling about on his broad little horse, and John Westonhaugh stood with his hands in his pockets and a large Trichinopoli cheroot between his lips, apparently gazing into space.
"Not the first time by a good many that you've 'shunted off the straight, Seraph?" laughed Cecil, substituting an amber mouth-piece for his half-finished cheroot. "I've been having a good-night look at the King. He'll stay." "Of course he will," chorused half a dozen voices. "With all our pots on him," added the Seraph.
As Shafto made no reply, FitzGerald put down his cheroot, drew his chair closer to the table and, leaning over to his companion, said: "Look here, me boy, you are a thundering good sort, and I'd like to tell you one or two small things and give you a bit of advice that may be useful.
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