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Finks stays, but only on condition that dinner shall last no more than ten minutes. After dining he sits for some five minutes on the sofa and thinks of the cracked wall, then resolutely lays his head on the cushion and fills the room with a shrill whistling through his nose.
It doesn't altogether compensate that the prison happens to be a palace." For a time neither spoke, then Bristow went on. "At the age of five, Cara stood before a mirror and critically surveyed herself. At the end of the scrutiny she turned away with a satisfied sigh. 'I finks I'm lovely, she announced. At five one is frank.
"She is all right, thank you." "Ah. . . . Well, run along." After losing two roubles Finks remembers the high school and is horrified. "Holy Saints, why it's three o'clock already. How I have been staying on. Good-bye, I must run. . . ." "Have dinner with me, and then go," says Lyashkevsky. "You have plenty of time."
I finks every night when I'm in bed about it. He'll knock at my door sudden, and I'll say, "Come in." And then I'll see him! He gave a little wriggle of ecstasy as he spoke. 'He'll take me straight away. P'raps a cab will be at the door, or a motor, and we'll go off to the countries over the sea. Me and Nobbles lie very quiet and listen for the knock when we're in bed.
'I have always been told that it is people's own fault if they are left outside. 'I want to be certain sure I'll get inside the gates, repeated Bobby, distress in his brown eyes. 'Me and Nobbles means to be there. I finks my father will help me get in. 'I'm sure he will, said Lady Isobel, cheerfully. 'Now would you like to come round my garden with me?
The native hears this abuse distinctly, but, judging from the appearance of his crumpled little figure, it does not affect him. Apparently he has long ago grown as used to it as to the buzzing of the flies, and feels it superfluous to protest. At every visit Finks has to listen to a tirade on the subject of the lazy good-for-nothing aborigines, and every time exactly the same one.
"I told yer I'd do it for yer." "Mrs. Rainham is waiting for me to do it, Eliza. I'm sorry." "Ow!" Eliza's expression and her tilted nose spoke volumes. "Suppose she finks I wouldn't clean 'er old silver proper. Silver, indeed! 'lectrer-plyte, an' common at that.
Thanks to them the town bank is going smash!" "I was at Yegorov's yesterday," Finks interrupts the Pole, anxious to change the conversation, "and only fancy, I won six roubles and a half from him at picquet." "I believe I still owe you something at picquet," Lyashkevsky recollects, "I ought to win it back. Wouldn't you like one game?" "Perhaps just one," Finks assents.
The first game is followed by a second, the second by a third. . . . Finks loses, and by degrees works himself up into a gambling fever and forgets all about the cracking walls of the high school cellar. As Lyashkevsky plays he keeps looking at the aborigines.
"He took off his cap and scratched his head. "Well, McCann, I hope you're contented," I said. "Mr. Crocker," said he, "and it's that thankful I am for you that the gent ain't here. But with him cutting high finks up at Mr. Cooke's house with a valet, and him coming on the yacht with yese, and the whole country in that state about him, begorra," said McCann, "and it's domned strange!
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