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Sir Jacques had been Paul's maternal uncle, and Paul had often wondered if there could have been anything in common between his mother whom he had never known and this smug Pharisee. His father, who had died whilst Paul was at Oxford, had rarely spoken of Paul's mother; but Paul had chanced to overhear an old clubman refer to her as having possessed "the most fascinating ankles in London."
He was not sure whether or not he had approached this particular gentleman before, but Van Bibber conceived an idea of much subtlety, and deceived the Object by again putting his hand in his pocket. "Nothing to eat for twenty-four hours! Dear me!" drawled the clubman, sympathetically. "Haven't you any money, either?" "Not a cent," groaned the Object, "an' I'm just faint for food, sir. S' help me.
"Read it aloud." Harley read as follows: "Before Mr. Smith, at Marlborough Street Police Court, John Edward Bampton was charged with assaulting a well-known clubman in Bond Street on Wednesday evening.
Pedro muttered swiftly to his partner. "Lourenço, see that house with the barred door where the clubman stands guard. Remember where it is." The other swept the loop in one quick glance, located the house, and fell into step without a word, the guarded structure fixed on his brain as clearly as if he had studied it for an hour.
In five minutes he was no longer a busy professional man, but a gentleman of leisure, with hands cleaner than those of any fastidious clubman, and clothes which carried no hint of past usage in other places less chaste than his wife's private living-rooms. "Now I'm ready for you," he announced, returning. "And I'll be hanged if I'll see another interloper to-night.
"Either he misunderstood me or he's distorting the facts," claimed the clubman with an assumption of boldness. "That ought to be easy to prove. We'll make an appointment with him for this afternoon and check up by the dictagraph." Bromfield laughed uneasily. "Is that necessary, Mr. Whitford? Surely my word is good. I have the honor to tell you that I did nothing discreditable."
He evidently did not recognize Van Bibber, and the clubman gave him a half-dollar and walked away, feeling that the man must surely have enough by this time with which to get something to eat, if only a luncheon. This retracing of his footsteps had confused Van Bibber, and he made a complete circuit of the block before he discovered that he had lost his bearings.
He evidently did not recognize Van Bibber, and the clubman gave him a half-dollar and walked away, feeling that the man must surely have enough by this time with which to get something to eat, if only a luncheon. This retracing of his footsteps had confused Van Bibber, and he made a complete circuit of the block before he discovered that he had lost his bearings.
"Eh," said she," I thought it wur th' clubman comin', an' I wur just goin' to tell him that I had nothin' for him." The family was seven in number man, wife, and five children. The husband, as I have said, was lying ill. The wife told me that they had only 6s. a-week coming in for the seven to live upon. My companion was the weekly visitor who relieved them.
She is willing, however, to renounce it for ever, if you, on your side, will make quite a small sacrifice." "Name it, Monsieur." "You have a little passion for baccarat " "Surely, Monsieur," said he blandly, "my wife would not expect me to give up what is the mere recreation of every clubman." "As a recreation pure and simple she would not insist too much, but " I shrugged my shoulders.
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