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"That's what we always have, and then everybody dances a Sir Roger de Coverly you should see Uncle Phil and Aunt Maria dancing and afterwards we have supper." They had a picnic tea at six o'clock in the sitting-room as the maids were arranging the supper-table in the dining-room, and then came the fun of dressing.
Very well ... having laid the telephone trap in your ante-room did our man hurry away and make the call in person, which brought Coverly to the 'phone? or did he remain watching the house and give the signal to some one else to do it?" "I cannot imagine, Gatton. Nor does the point strike me as important." "No?" said Gatton, smiling triumphantly. "Then I must explain.
I have said so, and I am not accustomed to have my word doubted." "My dear Coverly," said I, "you must be perfectly well aware that sooner or later you will have to relinquish this heroic pose. Will you allow no one to advise you?
"These were my only discoveries, and very wretched and dissatisfied I tramped back to my chambers wondering what the visit of Marcus Coverly to this apparently empty house could mean and why he had remained there, but particularly wondering why the voice had told me this part-truth which had turned me into a spy unavailingly.
Addison gives a specimen of this ribaldry, in Number 383 of The Spectator, when Sir Roger de Coverly and he are going to Spring-garden . Johnson was once eminently successful in this species of contest; a fellow having attacked him with some coarse raillery, Johnson answered him thus, "Sir, your wife, under pretence of keeping a bawdy-house, is a receiver of stolen goods ." One evening when he and Mr.
The New Girls were cheered to the echo by the School, and the party which was voted a great success ended with cake and lemonade and a delightful Sir Roger de Coverly in which every one took part. Judith, dancing with Bob Cratchit, felt supremely happy, and her cup was filled to overflowing by Miss Meredith's words as she said good-night.
"Do you mean, Gatton," I said, looking hard at him, "that by professing to have established the innocence of Eric Coverly, you hoped to draw down upon him the renewed activities of his enemies?" Gatton looked rather guilty, but: "I do admit it!" he said. "Nevertheless he did not fall a victim to this trap which I had laid for him in his own best interests.
His step was springy, his lips were puckered, he was whistling blithely when he emerged, for at last those vaguely outlined plans that had been at the back of his mind had assumed form and pattern. His luck had turned, he had made a new start. Mallow was indeed a crook, and Gray blessed the prompt good fortune that had thrown both him and Coverly in his way.
Whilst I had been delivering myself of this somewhat priggish speech designed, I may add, in self-defense, to spur Coverly to a rejoinder which might throw some light upon the mystery he had regarded me with an expression of ever increasing dislike. I noted that there were shadows under his eyes, and that he was in a highly nervous and excited condition.
The deeper to complicate the issue, Nahémah carried out the whole of the negotiations over the telephone, and hers was the "voice" afterwards rendered notorious by the press, which issued the directions culminating in the death of Marcus Coverly.
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