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"I'm certainly no Pritchard," returned Elsie coolly, and not without enjoyment, "begging your pardon, Cousin Julia." "Well, of course, I ought to regret it, you being the last of the family; but I'm afraid I don't," returned Miss Pritchard. "You see I rather dreaded your coming as that of a double-dyed Pritchard.
That is they WERE as much so in their way as the others. There were beautiful intentions all round. The Prince's and Charlotte's were beautiful of THAT I had my faith. They WERE I'd go to the stake. Otherwise," she added, "I should have been a wretch. And I've not been a wretch. I've only been a double-dyed donkey." "Ah then," he asked, "what does our muddle make THEM to have been?"
He put Buonaventure's letter into Redgauntlet's hand, and watched his looks closely while he read it. 'Double-dyed infatuation! he muttered, with looks in which sorrow, displeasure, and anxiety were mingled. "Save me from the indiscretion of my friends," says the Spaniard; "I can save myself from the hostility of my enemies."
Guy tore it open in wonder. What on earth could this mean? He trembled as he read. Could Cyril have learnt all? Or had Nevitt, that double-dyed traitor, now trebled his treachery by informing against the man whom he had driven into a crime?
"No, I said cel " "I won't sell one, but I'll give you one," again interposed the other. "Here, take it!" And he added under his breath with an ugly oath, "You double-dyed fool!" Hugh lay still, breathing deeply and heartily wishing the men would go away. He began to fear they would spend the day there in hiding.
"What a fool what a double-dyed fool!" he anathematized himself, as he got the motor ready to start, while Billy still ate apple-pie and cream on the kitchen veranda. In spite of Wisler's catechism he had let Angela accept Carmen's invitation, had even urged her to accept. If anything hideous happened it would be his fault. But no, surely nothing would happen. It was too bad to be true.
"Now, Mr. Goad, you still assert that you never were in California never even crossed the Atlantic. This young lady under my protection don't you be afraid, my dear is the Honorable Erema Castlewood, whom you, in the pay of a murderer, went to fetch, and perhaps to murder. Now, do you acknowledge it? You wrote her description, and ought to know her. You double-dyed villain, out with it!"
I objected politely. You overruled my objections, or tried to. I let you think you had. And for a while after that, you know perfectly well, Biddy, the Set gave me no time to think any thoughts at all, connected with myself." "You poor fellow, you have been a slave!" The soft-hearted angel was caught in the trap set for her pity. "And a martyr. A double-dyed martyr. I deserve a reward.
He displayed a recklessness that brought upon him the assertion by Jack Harvey that he was "a double-dyed little idiot;" and Henry Burns gave him solemn warning that some day he would go over the dam, if he didn't stop taking chances. But they couldn't check Tim's ardour.
Sir Anthony turned to the bell-push by the side of the mantelpiece. "What's the good of talking to this double-dyed scoundrel?" He pointed to the door. "You infamous liar, get out. And if I ever catch you prowling round this house, I'll set the dogs on you." Gedge marched to the door and turned on the threshold and shook his fist. "You'll repent your folly till your dying day!"
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