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Updated: May 12, 2025
Of course such a friendly joke from an incurable joker like Jos Curtenty was all right; but supposing enemies began to joke on similar lines how he might be prejudiced at the polls!
And even mediocre jokes would convulse the room. Jos Curtenty, the renowned card, a jolly old gentleman of sixty, was in the chair, and therefore jollity was assured in advance.
She was in mourning for a distant relative. Black pre-eminently suited her. Consequently her distant relatives died at frequent intervals. The basalt clock on the mantelpiece trembled and burst into the song of six. Clara Curtenty rose swiftly from the easy-chair, and took her seat in front of the tea-tray.
Gordon wished, and has never ceased to wish, either that he had been elected to some other committee, or that his name had begun with some other letter. The gooseherd received the purchase-money like an affront, but when Mr. Curtenty, full of private mirth, said, 'Chuck us your stick in, he give him the stick, and smiled under reservation.
Jos Curtenty had no use for the geese; he could conceive no purpose which they might be made to serve, no smallest corner for them in his universe. Nevertheless, since he had rashly stumbled into a ditch, he determined to emerge from it grandly, impressively, magnificently. He instantaneously formed a plan by which he would snatch victory out of defeat.
That Gordon still worshipped at the shrine did not disturb him; on the contrary, it pleased him. Poor Gordon! 'But, really, Mrs. Curtenty, Gordon was saying 'really, you know I that is really 'To please me! Mrs. Curtenty entreated, with a seductive charm that Jos felt even outside the door. Then there was a pause. 'Very well, said Gordon. Mr. Curtenty tiptoed away and back into the street.
These were the only words uttered by him during a memorable journey. The second disaster was that the deceitful afternoon turned to rain cold, cruel rain, persistent rain, full of sinister significance. Mr. Curtenty ruefully raised the velvet of his Melton. As he did so a brougham rolled into Oldcastle Street, a little in front of him, from the direction of St.
At five past six Josiah Curtenty entered the room, radiant from a hot bath, and happy in dry clothes a fine, if mature, figure of a man. His presence filled the whole room. 'Well, my chuck! he said, and kissed her on the cheek. She gazed at him with a look that might mean anything. Did she raise her cheek to his greeting, or was it fancy that she had endured, rather than accepted, his kiss?
It was a violent, mysterious, agonizing, and sudden death for him, and must have confirmed his theories about the arbitrariness of things. The thirteen passed pitilessly on. Mr. Curtenty freed the gander from the coiling wire, and picked it up, but, finding it far too heavy to carry, he handed it to a Corporation road-sweeper. 'I'll send for it, he said; 'wait here.
And underneath all this brooding dissatisfaction lurked the thought, as the alligator lurks in a muddy river, that 'the Earl wouldn't like it' meaning the geese episode. It was generally felt that the Earl had been badly treated by Jos Curtenty. The town could not explain its sentiments could not argue about them.
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