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Miss Amelia Roper, indeed, was becoming very cross, and in her ill-temper was playing a game that was tending to create a frightful amount of hot water in Burton Crescent. She was devoting herself to a flirtation with Mr Cradell, not only under the immediate eyes of Johnny Eames, but also under those of Mrs Lupex. John Eames, the blockhead, did not like it.
It has suited me lately to live in lodgings, but there's no knowing whether I mayn't fall lower than that yet, and have " but here she stopped herself, and looking over at Mr Cradell nodded her head. "And have to let them," said Mrs Roper. "I hope you'll be more lucky with your lodgers than I have been with some of mine. Jemima, hand the potatoes to Miss Spruce.
"I have some idea of working on till eight, and having a chop sent in," said Johnny. "Besides I've got somewhere to call, by myself." Then Cradell almost cried. He remained silent for two or three minutes, striving to master his emotion; and at last, when he did speak, had hardly succeeded in doing so. "Oh, Johnny," he said, "I know what that means.
At the first bursting of the shell, when that desperately jealous man was raging in the parlour, incensed by the fumes both of wine and love, Cradell had felt that the affair was disagreeably painful.
I dare say I shall marry some day, because men do; but I've no idea of losing myself about a woman." "I'd lose myself ten times over for " "L. D.," said Cradell. "That I would. And yet I know I shall never have her. I'm a jolly, laughing sort of fellow; and yet, do you know, Caudle, when that girl marries, it will be all up with me. It will, indeed." "Do you mean that you'll cut your throat?"
There's nothing so safe as a little nonsense with a married woman. Of course, it means nothing, you know, between her and me." "I don't suppose it does mean anything. But she's always talking about Lupex being jealous; and if he was to cut up rough, you wouldn't find it pleasant." Cradell, however, seemed to think that there was no danger.
"I found the noble earl pretty well, thank you," said Johnny. It had become plainly understood by all the Roperites that Eames's position was quite altered since he had been honoured with the friendship of Lord De Guest. Mrs Lupex, next to whom he always sat at dinner, with a view to protecting her as it were from the dangerous neighbourhood of Cradell, treated him with a marked courtesy.
Johnny, what a figure that woman has!" he said, one morning, as they were walking to their office. "Yes; she stands well on her pins." "I should think she did. If I understand anything of form," said Cradell, "that woman is nearly perfect. What a torso she has!"
It would seem that an easy way of escape was offered to him; but the lady probably knew that the way as offered by her was not easy to such an one as John Eames. "Amelia," he said, still keeping his seat. "Well, sir?" "You know I love you." "And about L. D.?" "If you choose to believe all the nonsense that Cradell puts into your head, I can't help it.
And then she did contrive to look at him over the edge of the hand which held the handkerchief. "That I wouldn't, I'm sure," said Cradell. "That is to say " And then he paused. He did not wish to get into a scrape about Mrs Lupex. He was by no means anxious to encounter her husband in one of his fits of jealousy.
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