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Updated: June 25, 2025
In order that January might not interfere in the education of the heir, Horion had told him that the boy had perished in infancy in London. As a matter of fact, the child had been brought up with Victor. "So Flamin is the heir to the throne of Flachsenfingen!" exclaimed Victor. "Yes," said Horion, "and I have trained you to guide and direct him in the same way as I guide and direct his father.
D n yer eyes, 'oo sent for any of you?" Undoubtedly David was recovering. The discomfited clerks retired. Even Dickey Bulmer was quieted a little. But he still shook the newspaper under David's nose. "Now!" he cried. "Let's have it. No more of your flamin' made-up tales. Wot took you to shove the Andromeda into a rat-trap of this sort?" David staggered away from the table.
It was their first meeting for eight years. Flamin was the son of Chaplain Eymann, who had retired from the court of the Prince of Flachsenfingen; Victor was the heir of Lord Horion, a noble Englishman who lived at Flachsenfingen and directed all the affairs of the prince.
An' syne again, I thocht it was the gate o' Paradees afore which stud the angel wi' the flamin' sword that turned ilka gait, and wadna lat me in. But I'm some better sin the licht cam, and I wad fain hae a drappy o' that fine caller tipple they ca' watter." Alec ran down and brought it cold from the pump, saying, as Mr Cupples returned the tumbler with a look of thanks,
In that land so truly named the Dark and Bloody Ground it seemed the abode of unbroken peace. "I reckon," said Shif'less Sol, "that after the fall Adam an' Eve left by that rift between the hills, an' thar the Angel stood with the Flamin' Sword to keep 'em out. O' course they might hev crawled back down the hillside here, an' in other places, but I guess they wuz afeard.
And ever sence I've been sartin as I'm alive that the feller I marry will be of a rank higher'n mine and dark complected and good-lookin' and distinguished, and that he'll be name of Butler. "'Butler? says I. 'What will he be named Butler for? "''Cause the Seer critter said so. He said he could see the word Butler printed out over the top of my head in flamin' letters.
With a gasp of satisfaction he saw him rise to his feet, rub some of the dirt off his face, and look round at the steer. Then he gave his shirt a shake and began to brush himself with his hands, saying in an indignant tone, "Flamin' bullock! Spoil my new chirt!"
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