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They might have their faults, but at least their presence tended to keep the conversation general and prevent it becoming a duologue between Lord Wisbeach and Jimmy on the subject of old times. She was still feeling weak from the reaction consequent upon the slackening of the tension of her emotions on seeing Lord Wisbeach greet Jimmy as an old acquaintance.
'The first is to find out if Captain Hardy has gone back to his ship; and the other is O if you will do it, John! to get me newspapers whenever possible. After this duologue John was absent for a space of three hours, and they thought he had gone back to barracks. He entered, however, at the end of that time, took off his forage-cap, and wiped his forehead.
"She would if she could." "I should so like to have seen her again," said Audrey eagerly. She was so relieved at Madame Piriac's not coming that she felt she could afford to be eager. And Monsieur Foa, a little distance off, threw a sign into the duologue, and called: "You permit me? Your dress ... Exquise! Exquise! And these pigs of French persist in saying that the English lack taste!"
'No doubt she says in the morning, "Would God it were evening," and in the evening, "Would God it were morning," like the disobedient woman in Deuteronomy. Swithin, in the room overhead, had suspended his calculations, for the duologue interested him. 'Is the good man come? asked Nat Chapman. 'No, I see we be here afore him. And how is it with aged women to-night, Mrs. Martin?
He had no wish to see the duologue, and it was only after the loss of much precious time that Jimmy was enabled to tear himself away on the plea of having to dress. He cursed the authority on "Modern America and Its People" freely, as he ran upstairs. While the duologue was in progress, there had been no chance of Sir Thomas taking it into his head to visit his dressing-room.
Still keeping her face hidden, she walked down the slope, followed at an interval by her servant, and curiously watched by the English officer, who said to himself, "Well, I suppose I was mistaken," and consequently discovered that he was in a hobble. A short duologue in their best stilted French ensued between him and Ammiani.
Charteris appeared to be in a somewhat overwrought condition. Rehearsals had turned him into a pessimist, and, now that the actual moment of production had arrived, his nerves were in a thoroughly jumpy condition, especially as the duologue was to begin in two minutes and the obliging person who had undertaken to prompt had disappeared. "Spennie," said Charteris, "where are you off to?"
Yollop jerking the disk first one way and then the other in order to catch the flitting duologue. "His name is Smilk, Cassius Smilk." "Nothing of the sort," said Mrs. Champney sharply. "It's Ernest Wilson, isn't it, Ernest?" "Take off them rings," was the answer she got. "What is this man doing here, Crittenden?" demanded Mrs. Champney, paying no heed to Smilk's command.
Thou art education! Thou art indeed culture!" LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, Now that you have followed my tale up to this point, and that we have made ourselves joint masters of the solitary, remote, and at times abusive duologue of the philosopher and his companion, I sincerely hope that you, like strong swimmers, are ready to proceed on the second half of our journey, especially as I can promise you that a few other marionettes will appear in the puppet-play of my adventure, and that if up to the present you have only been able to do little more than endure what I have been telling you, the waves of my story will now bear you more quickly and easily towards the end.
The hollow spiral, as he knew from old experience, would bring down to his ears the slightest sound from above; and it now revealed to him the words of a duologue in progress at the summit of the tower. 'Mother, what shall I do? a child's voice said. 'Shall I sing? The mother seemed to assent, for the child began 'The robin has fled from the wood To the snug habitation of man.
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