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"For example," he said, "you smoke too much and smoking'll be curtailed." With a quick movement he plucked the cigarette from Richard's mouth and threw it into the grate. A dull red surged over Richard's face as he sprang to his feet. "I warn you " he began, then checked himself at the sudden memory of Cranbourne's words. He was not allowed to put up a fight. "Well, what?" "Oh, nothing.
He could imagine Cranbourne's unbridled enthusiasm, Lord Almont's congratulations in the style of P. G. Wodehouse, and Cassis, that person of dry ashes and parchment, unbending to the greatness of the occasion.
"At ten thirty I was plugging a man in the jaw at St. Pancras Station." Cranbourne sprang to his feet. "Honest?" he cried. "Honest." "And you never went to the Berkeley?" "Nowhere near it." A light of wild enthusiasm leapt into Cranbourne's eyes and he brought his hands together with a loud report. "Got it," he cried. "Got it! Oh, what an idea!" "What's up with you?"
The Manchester hat stuck in Cranbourne's throat a trifle since it widened the circle of enquiry. The porter at the revolving door believed the gentleman had gone toward Piccadilly walking. Yes, he was sure he hadn't taken a cab. Gave him a shilling and five coppers. Cranbourne thanked them and spent the rest of the day passing in and out of every well known grill room in London.
It is not hard to believe that this remark, apparently so irrelevant, did little to calm an already excited situation. The driver loosed his hold upon the reins, seized his whip and slashed it at Cranbourne's head.
Sleep comes very suddenly to the weary like a pistol shot out of the dark. Cranbourne's head pitched forward against his chest and his hands slithered inertly from his knees. He awoke with a start to the sound of smashing glass, a sharp rattle of imprecations and a sense of being turned upside down.
Far on the deep the Spaniards saw, along each southern shire, Cape beyond cape, in endless rage, those twinkling points of fire: The fisher left his skiff to rock on Tamar's glittering waves; The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip's sunless caves. O'er Longleat's towers, o'er Cranbourne's oaks, the fiery herald flew; He roused the Shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulieu.
There was no doubt in their minds but that in time he would be brought to speak, but Cranbourne's unexpected disclosure that the opposition knew of their captive's whereabouts robbed them of their most valuable asset. Time, so to speak, was no longer to be relied upon and they were compelled to resort to a more expeditious method.
"You should know me well enough, Cassis, to realise that when I lose time I lose it purposely. I am waiting for Cranbourne." "Cranbourne's ideas are altogether too fantastic." "We agreed to do nothing until eleven o'clock and it wants ten minutes to the hour." "Not a very substantial margin to find Barraclough's double."
While the inhabitants of Moultrassie Hall thus communicated together upon the purport of Sir Jasper Cranbourne's visit, that worthy knight greatly excited the surprise of Sir Geoffrey Peveril, by reporting the manner in which his embassy had been received. "I took him for a man of other metal," said Sir Geoffrey; "nay, I would have sworn it, had any one asked my testimony.
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