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Updated: June 27, 2025
He had an outside pocket to his dress coat, and a handkerchief which you could have plugged your tooth with. He had just said to Lucy, "I'm so glad to see you. It's more than a week since we met and I want your advice " when Crewdson, like a priest, announced Sir Matthew and Lady Bliss.
Still the youthful element occasionally managed to extract some humor out of the very circumstances which the older and more serious members held to be grounds for forebodings of evil. One morning after we had left camp, a favorite cow was missing from the drove. "Jack" Aston and Major Crewdson, both young fellows, rode back in search of the stray.
This worthy man left our service to become a partner in an engineering concern in Ireland; and though he richly deserved his promotion, he left us to our very great regret. The last of our foremen to whom I shall refer was worthy Thomas Crewdson. He entered our service as a smith, in which pursuit he displayed great skill.
James never seemed to care for anything done by anybody except Crewdson. Sometimes he seemed to resent it. "Have we no servants then?" the eyeglass seemed to inquire. She wondered if James knew for how much his eyeglass was answerable. How could one like to be kissed, with that glaring disk coming nearer and nearer?
Is he going to give secret orders to Crewdson not to admit Mr. ? As they do in plays at the St. James's? Oh, James, do tell me whom you darkly suspect? Cæsar's wife! My dear and injured man " James writhed, but he was in the trap. You may be too trenchant, it would seem, and your cleaver stick fast in the block. It behooved him to take a strong line. This kind of raillery must be stopped.
She came forth finally to see Crewdson and her own chauffeur grouped with Urquhart. The bonnet was open; shining coils, mighty cylinders were in view, and a great copper feed-pipe like a burnished boa-constrictor. The chauffeur, a beady-eyed Swiss, stared approval; Crewdson, rubbing his chin, offered a deft blend of the deferential butler and the wary man of the world.
For most of us this was a first introduction to one of the yellow race. He was evidently the camp cook. Major Crewdson approached the Celestial with the salutation: "Hello, John." "Belly good," was the reply.
Having already heard it said that the invariable result of an untutored Chinaman's effort to pronounce any word containing an "r" produced the sound of "l" instead, we thought little of that error in the attempt of this one to say "Very," but believed that his substitution for the initial letter of that word was inexcusable. "What is the name of this place?" continued Crewdson.
She kept the best face she could upon the miserable affair, but was determined that she would force a crisis at home, come what might. Arrived at Onslow Square, James strode into the library and shut the door behind him. When Crewdson was disposed of on his numerous affairs, Lucy followed her lord. He turned, he stared, and waited for her to speak.
He knew that it was done in the highest places, but he knew his own place best. "We are not what you call the smart set," he said. "We are not Park Lane or Brook Street. But we are solid the professions the land and the church. No jinks in this house. And small tables is jinks. Not a dinner, but a kick-up." So Crewdson thought, and so he looked, but his master was flint.
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