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"I want to prevent old Styles from letting him out. He's of some value, you know, and it would be awkward to lose him." "I am a bit of a dog-fancier myself," said Smith, still gazing hard at his companion from the corner of his eyes. "Perhaps you'll let me have a look at it." "Certainly. But I am afraid it cannot be to-night; I have an appointment. Is that clock right?
Scarcely knowing what to say, I made an observation at random. ‘You show, by your own conduct,’ said I, ‘that there are other things worth following besides dog-fighting. You practise rat-catching and badger-baiting as well.’ The dog-fancier eyed me with supreme contempt. ‘Your friend here,’ said he, ‘might well call you a new one.
Where for generations the dog-fancier has selected for reproduction with reference to the trifling and often injurious features of shape he seeks to attain, he naturally and almost necessarily neglects to choose the creatures in regard to their mental peculiarities.
Recently, too, a difference had sprung up between Arthur and Marky about the Smileys; and Railsford felt that he had not done all he might to smooth over that bitter memory and recover the loyalty and affection of the bereaved dog-fancier.
Toole called Sturk a 'horse doctor, and 'the smuggler' in reference to some affair about French brandy, never made quite clear to me, but in which, I believe, Sturk was really not to blame; and Sturk called him 'that drunken little apothecary' for Toole had a boy who compounded, under the rose, his draughts, pills, and powders in the back parlour and sometimes, 'that smutty little ballad singer, or 'that whiskeyfied dog-fancier, Toole. There was no actual quarrel, however; they met freely told one another the news their mutual disagreeabilities were administered guardedly and, on the whole, they hated one another in a neighbourly way.
Keith looked at him thoughtfully. "You seem to have a curious way of reasoning. What did the man say?" "He promised to engage the services of a dog-fancier friend of his." "You imagined that a dog-fancier would specialize in cats?" Millicent's eyes twinkled, but Mrs. Keith's face was serious and Blake's perfectly grave. "I don't know that I argued the matter out.
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