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Are those wretched accounts annoying you?’ Valeria would ask sympathetically, suppressing her desire to laugh. ‘These fellows keep their books so deucedly queerly. What does this mean “1
Deucedly mean of Reeves, you know, if he has backed out of it, for she was an uncommonly nice girl." "I've seen her," I said; "but I don't know her name." "She is a Miss Northcott, and lives with an old aunt of hers in Abercrombie Place. Nobody knows anything about her people, or where she comes from. Anyhow, she is about the most unlucky girl in the world, poor soul!" "Why unlucky?"
"I need to be with all this hot blood about me. Young Townsend indeed is cool; I must allow him that merit." "I can't judge him," Mrs. Almond answered; "but I am not at all surprised at Catherine." "I confess I am a little; she must have been so deucedly divided and bothered." "Say it amuses you outright! I don't see why it should be such a joke that your daughter adores you."
'But, cried Lady Durwent, whose easily roused theatrical instinct gave her the delightful sensation of presiding at a meeting of the Cabinet, 'what have we to do with Austria and Servia? 'Hear, hear, said the bland youth. 'Let 'em hop aboard each other if they like. I think it would be deucedly splendid for us to have another war; we're all fed up aren't we? with just enjoying ourselves.
But you go to see Hay when he invites you, and make yourself agreeable, especially to Mrs. Krill." "Am I likely to meet her?" asked Paul, with repugnance. "Yes, I fancy so. After all, you are engaged to the daughter of the dead man, and Mrs. Krill I don't count Maud, who is a tool is a deucedly clever woman. She will keep her eye on you and Miss Norman." "Why?
"I do regret it, though, more than I can tell, and I haven't any excuse for myself; only things did look so deucedly queer there for a while, don't you know?" "Well," said Scott, pleasantly, "we are not out of the woods yet, and there is no telling what developments may arise. Things might 'look queer' again, you know." "That's all right.
I know what lofty ideas you have just now of consecrating yourself to the work of refining and elevating the Wallencampers. I know how coolly you can fix your eyes on a certain goal, and stumble indiscriminately over everything that comes in your way. I know what a deucedly superior state of mind you've gotten into.
If there had been one word out of place it would have been fatal." "Do you hear that?" said Sir Hugo, looking at the husband. "Yes," said Grandcourt, without change of countenance. "It's a deucedly hard thing to keep up, though."
"Yes; it is Valmai's red hood; she wears it sometimes, and sometimes a broad-brimmed white hat." Ellis looked at his watch. "Too late to go back now; it is close upon one o'clock." "Deucedly provoking!" said Cardo; "we will try again after dinner." But after dinner they seemed to be no more successful, although they found their way into the very field where they had seen the red hood.
This surprised us all a good deal, but our wonderment was lost on the Don, who got up from his seat, and in his linen garment, which was deucedly laconic, made his formal bow, wished us goodnight, and presenting the reverse of his medal, which was extremely picturesque, he vanished through the door.
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