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For what king or kaiser, against the implacable wind " Ferdie rose and pawed at his ears with both hands. "For the love of the merciful angels! Can the drivel and cut the drool!" "Those are very good words, Sedgwick," said Mr. Thompson approvingly. "The word I had on my tongue was balderdash. But your thought was happier. Balderdash is a vague and shapeless term. It conjures up no definite vision.
And up to this minute my chances of gettin' inside Cedarholm gates had been null and void, or even worse. But now say, I wanted to be real kind to Ferdie! "One or two old friends of Marjorie's are to be there," he goes on dreamy. "They are?" says I. "Then that's diff'rent. You got to go, of course." "But but," says he, "only a moment ago you "
Aware of herself, chiefly, not as a cause of happiness, but as a cause of embarrassment and uncertainty and trouble to three people, her father, her mother and Ferdie, just as they were causes of embarrassment and trouble and uncertainty to her. They lived in a sort of violent mystery that she, incomprehensibly, was mixed up with.
"Never waste time wonderin'," says I. "Take a chance. Here, sign your name to that; then we'll go hunt up Marjorie and tell her the glad news." Ferdie was still in a daze when we found the other three-quarters of the sketch, and Marjorie was some set back herself when I springs the scheme.
She thought: Seeing things had not made poor Ferdie happy; and Veronica in her innermost life was happy. She had been happy when she came back from Germany, before she could have known that Nicky cared for her, before Nicky knew it himself. Supposing she had known it all the time? But that, Frances said to herself, was nonsense.
A slight wound kept him in hospital throughout the greater part of the siege, and he had missed the sortie of his squadron and the taking of the guns for which Ferdie Cameron got his promotion and his D.S.O. He had come back in the middle of the war with nothing but a bullet wound in his left leg to prove that he had taken part in it. The part he had taken had not sobered Maurice.
Dorothy rode my bike stridelegs coming back, so that I could sit in the dog-cart. She said she'd get a jolly wigging if she was seen. We shan't know till Monday. You know, Mummy, that kid Ronny's having a rotten time, what with Bartie being such a beast and Vera chumming up with Ferdie and going off to country houses where he is. I really think she'd better come to us for the holidays.
Ferdie will try one joke too many, one of these days, and then Now, look here, Elsie," Sally interrupted her tirade to state with deadly deliberation, "unless that man goes home before dinner, as a man of any spirit would do, I'm going over to Mary Bevis's, and you can make whatever apologies you like!" "Of course he won't go," said Elsie, with spirit.
"You and Miss Vee take the limousine; we will go in the roadster. If Marjorie and Ferdie wish to come along, they can join us in their car." "How about a dominie?" says I. "Do I pick up one casual along the road?" "Oh, I forgot the Reverend Percy," says Mr. Robert. "He's consented to quit that East Side settlement work of his for a day. You'll have to take him along. Now, how soon may we start?
So Frances fought her fear. She had known that Ferdie Cameron was good, as she put it, "in spite of everything"; but she had not seen Lawrence Stephen, and she did not know that he had sensibilities and prejudices and scruples like her own, and that he and Vera distinguished very carefully between the people who would be good for Michael and Nicholas and Dorothy, and the people who would not.
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