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It leaped out at her suddenly, like a grin out of the dark, that they had often called England so little "such a confoundedly hard place to get lost in." A confoundedly hard place to get lost in! That had been her husband's phrase. In the fortnight since Boyne's disappearance there had been no word of him, no trace of his movements.
It was confoundedly cold; but I thought there was something worth diving for, so down I went, and contrived to keep myself long enough under water to hook one end of a case, by which means we broke it out and got it up.
"He really is an awfully fine little beggar. I swear I believe he's musical! And he's confoundedly clever. Why, he said " Mrs. Houghton could have wept with the pitifulness of it! For Maurice went on, like any proud young father, with a story of how his little boy had said this or done that. "But he's fresh, sometimes, and he's the kind that, if he got fresh, ought to be licked.
'I I believe he did, some of it; but I warned him, I did, upon my honour! Now, tell him, did I not warn you, my dear lieutenant, not to thwallow, interposed little Puddock, who began to grow confoundedly agitated; but Sturk, who rather liked shocking and frightening people, and had a knack of making bad worse, and an alacrity in waxing savage without adequate cause, silenced him with
"And you won't marry me?" "No, I can't marry you." "Then that's finished." He spoke brusquely. "I shan't ask you again, so you needn't worry. Come along, we'll get back to the hotel. If we're going to watch the sunrise to-morrow, we'd better turn in early. And this air makes one confoundedly sleepy. I believe I could sleep the clock round."
"I was so confoundedly artful about Potter," he thought bitterly, "that they'll never believe now I haven't warned him!" At every sound outside he shook like a leaf; the quarters, as they sounded from the church clock, sank like cold weights upon his heart. "If only Venus would come back first!" he moaned; but the statue never returned.
"I say, Curzon, you'll be confoundedly jealous though, for he is to play with Fanny." "I rather think not," said Curzon, who was a little tipsy. "Oh, yes," said Frazer, "Hepton is right.
Now, to change them 'ere splendid white water-lillies of Connecticut and Rhode Island for the yaller crocusses of Illanoy, is what we don't like. It goes most confoundedly agin the grain, I tell you.
"Oh, I see you've done that, old boy. Congrat " "Pooh! wait a minute," said Dacres, interrupting him. "Well, you know, she wasn't my wife at all." At this Hawbury stood utterly aghast. "What's that?" "She wasn't my wife at all. She looks confoundedly like what my wife was at her best, but she's another person.
Yes; and if I were not so confoundedly low-spirited and lazy, I could do a thousand other things too. But now, don't say a word about it to Moodie." I made no promise; but my respect for him was not increased by his cowardly fear of reproof from Moodie, who treated him with a kindness and consideration which he did not deserve.
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