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I only asked for the kettle, Mr. Cudmore." "The devil a more," said Cud, with a sneer. "Well, then, of course" "Well, then, I'll tell you, of course," said he, repeating her words; "the sorrow taste of the kettle, I'll give you. Call you own skip Blue Pether there damn me, if I'll be your skip any longer."
Mrs. Clanfrizzle screamed the old ladies accompanied her the young ones tittered the men laughed and, in a word, poor Cudmore, perfectly unconscious of any thing extraordinary, felt himself the admired of all admirers, very little, it is true, to his own satisfaction.
Cudmore senior, with the faintest possible bow. "Our client, Major Bromham, is not returning until late this afternoon by the four-forty train, in fact. I myself dictated the letter in reply to yours, and fancied I had made it explicit." "Oh, quite. I called merely in the hope that you would give me some further information about my brother's will; since, apart from this legacy, I know nothing."
Cudmore wrote I wasn't even aware of an illness." Mrs. Flood's eyes seemed to answer, if such a thing could be said in a ladylike way, that he might tell that to the Marines. But, without relenting their hostility, she took occasion to mop them. "It was a cruel will," she murmured. "My husband and I had differences; in fact, we have lived apart for many years. Still " She broke off.
Clanfrizzle, nothing but an olive-coloured deposit of soft matter, closely analogous in appearance and chemical property to the residuary precipitate in a drained fish-pond; she put down the lid with a gentle sigh and turning towards the fire bestowed one of her very blandest and most captivating looks on Mr. Cudmore, saying as plainly as looks could say "Cudmore, you're wanting."
"Well, then, upon my conscience, you are impudent," said Cudmore, with his face crimsoned to the ears, and his eyes flashing fire. "Why, Mr. Cudmore," began the lady, "why, really, this is so strange. Why sir, what can you mean?" "Just that," said the imperturbable jib, who now that his courage was up, dared every thing. "But sir, you must surely have misunderstood me.
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