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"It'll be lang or ye fill that chair, Cossie, my man!" she said at length, but not with the smile of play, rather with the look of admonition, as if it was the boy's first duty to grow in breadth in order to fill the chair, and restore the symmetry of the world.

"Come now, Sandy, none of that!" angrily protested the victim. "You are a sensible fellow, though you do play the ass; and must know as well as I do myself that you are talking through your hat. I swear on my word of honour, I have never made love to Cossie, I'd as soon think of making love to the parrot next door, and I have not the remotest idea of marrying her.

She implored him to write to her, and remained "his devoted till death, Cossie." Shafto thrust his devoted-till-death Cossie's letter into the waste-paper basket, with a gesture of excommunication, and barred the doors of his memory upon her round fat face. Preparations for departure proceeded satisfactorily. He received a number of good wishes and not a few gifts.

I have to pay for my passage and outfit, and this unexpected windfall is a wonderful bit of luck. If I hadn't got it, I never could have accepted the post, or made a new start." "And when do you leave?" "In a week." "So soon," she exclaimed cheerfully; "I wonder what Cossie will say?" "It is not of the slightest consequence what Cossie says; she has nothing to do with my plans."

The prospect filled him with despair; life would become intolerable. A vivid imagination painted the picture of Cossie, helpless and plaintive, appealing for information and advice, coming to him to patch up disputes between her and her employer, to take her on the lakes, to the gymkhana, or the theatre on her days out. And what would Sophy Leigh think when she saw him accompanied by Mrs.

After one or two preliminary sentences, Shafto's eyes fell upon these lines: "By this you will have heard that our Cossie will be afloat; she has been very restless and unsettled for a long time almost ever since you left; nothing seems to please her. First she took up nursing and soon dropped that; then she took up typing and soon dropped that.

"Cossie won't think so, and when she hears you have been promoted and are off to Burma, she will stick to you like a burr." "But, my dear mother, what is the use of her sticking to me?" protested Douglas. "I haven't the faintest intention of being engaged to Cossie. If she imagines that I am in love with her, she is making the greatest mistake in her life."

So-and-So's European nurse? Putting her absurd partiality for him on one side, Cossie in her normal condition was a good-natured, amiable creature, and, of course, when she arrived in Burma he, as her only relative in the country, would be bound to look after her and show her attention; probably all the world would believe that they were engaged!

The "go-as-you-please" atmosphere, late hours, breakfast in bed, and casual meals, recalled old, and not unhappy times. Mrs. Larcher, who had never been a beauty, was now a fat woman past fifty, lazy, good-natured, and absolutely governed by her children. Besides Sandy, the dandy, she had two daughters, Delia and Cossie.

"I'm not for it, and that's certain," declared the other, with an emphasis that was almost violent. "I like Cossie right enough as a cousin, but I'm not a scrap in love. Why, we've not one single taste in common bar tennis and walnut pickles! I hate saying all this to you, old man it seems monstrously caddish, and really "

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