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Up, and after being trimmed, alone by water to Erith, all the way with my song book singing of Mr. Lawes's long recitative song in the beginning of his book.
One can never tell, never trust anybody what with one thing and another and the Alsatian border so close and those German-Swiss always to be suspected and often impossible to distinguish with their pig-eyes and bushy flat-backed heads from the genuine Boche. ... Would Miss Erith like to have our little dinner served out here in the garden?" Miss Erith was delightfully sure she would.
"I am so glad that you are better," she said with an effort made doubly difficult in the consciousness of the bright blush on her cheeks. Without moving he replied in what must have once been an agreeable voice: "Thank you. I suppose you are Miss Erith." "Yes." "Then I am very grateful for what you have done." "It was so fortunate " "Would you be seated if you please?"
At night the Swiss camp-fires glimmered on the rocks of Mount Terrible while, fireless, McKay and Miss Erith lay in their blankets under heaps of dead leaves on the knees of Thusis, cold as the moon that silvered their forest beds.
But it was being at sea! homeward bound too! There was no wish of mine, engendered by my hideous loneliness on the ice, by my abhorred association with the Frenchman, that I could not refer to as, down to this moment, gratified. My heart bounded; my spirits could not have been higher had this ocean been the Thames, and yonder dark flowing hills of water the banks of Erith and the Gravesend shore.
The audience promised well for future things, and the emotion that was stirred nearly bowled myself over. In some of the hushes that came one could hear men crying. The Scott Gattys and a few of my own friends came to "stand by," and we all drove down to Erith in motor-cars, and returned to supper with the Vickers at 10.30.
Stormonth's English Dictionary!" "By ginger!" he said. "I believe it's the code-book! Where is your cipher letter, Miss Erith!" The girl produced it with hands that trembled a trifle, spread it out under the light. Then she drew from her pocket a little pad and a pencil. "Quick," she said, "look for page 17!" "Yes, I have it!" "First column!" "Yes." "Now try the twentieth word from the top!"
The consequence was that all these ladies, all their daughters, all the relations and connexions of this life, thought it incumbent upon them to 'blow' our friend Puff proclaim how infamously he had behaved all because he had danced three supper dances with one girl, brought another a fine bouquet from Covent Garden, walked a third away from her party at a picnic at Erith, begged the mamma of a fourth to take her to a Woolwich ball, sent a fifth a ticket for a Toxophilite meeting, and dangled about the carriage of the sixth at a review at the Scrubbs.
"We'll pay 'em," I replied, "both of 'em, if you break your bail. Come," but he would not. "Frank, if I were not in Oakley Street to-night Willie would tell the police." "Your brother?" I cried. "Yes," he said, "Willie." "Good God!" I exclaimed; "but let him tell. I have not mentioned Erith or the steam yacht to a soul.
To the office again after dinner and there late writing letters, and then about 8 at night set out from my office and fitting myself at my lodgings intended to have gone this night in a Ketch down to the Fleete, but calling in my way at Sir J. Minnes's, who is come up from Erith about something about the prizes, they persuaded me not to go till the morning, it being a horrible darke and a windy night.
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