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This is one, for example, in which he upbraids "the merchantis of renown" for allowing "Edinburgh their nobil town" to remain in the state in which he describes it: "May nane pass through your principall gates For stink of haddocks and of skates, For cryin' of carlines and debates, For fensome flytings of defame. Think ye not shame Before strangers of all estates That sic dishonour hurt your name?
A month ago he had read how Captain Fensome, of Lady Durwent's house-party, had been killed trying to rescue his servant in No Man's Land. The sight of Dick Durwent and Johnston Smyth marching away had been only a spur to more intensive writing. Then why should that haltingly worded sentence lie like ice against his heart? A sharp pain shot through his head.
But I don't see how we can intrude into those blighters' little show. 'Exactly, said Selwyn; 'it's an isolated incident in European affairs. In what possible way can it lead to a rupture between Britain and Germany, as Captain Fensome here predicts? The officer referred to shrugged his shoulders. 'It's fairly simple, he said.
'Balkan quarrels always are, said the youth amiably. In a chorus of quick questions and answers, in which surmise and conjecture played ducks and drakes with fact, the party divided into two camps, the majority taking the stand that it was a local affair and would lead to nothing; the minority, led by a retired army captain called Fensome, reading a dark augury for the future.
Ah, tough luck, Fensome, old son; it's tails. 'Then let's begin the thousand years with some tennis, cried Elise, whose eyes were sparkling, 'immediately after breakfast. 'Shall us? Let's, cried the talkative Maynard. 'So lay on, comrades the victuals are waiting and "damned be he that first cries, 'Hold, enough!"
Here' Maynard ran the knife down the side of the column. 'Now then, old Fensome has promised to get the thing out of the Post, and to tell Lord Durwent before he goes to town. But he mustn't hear of it this way, and those women are not to know a word about it while they're in the house.
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