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He rang the bell hurriedly, lest his purpose should weaken. "Oh, Mrs. Wilson," he said carelessly, "I am going away for a few days." "Visiting at some gentleman's seat to shoot the gamebirds, I make no doubt," answered the landlady. "Why, no; not precisely that," said Mr. Clarkson. "The fact is, Mr.
But I looked round the room for the ink, noting in my search the big fireplace, simple, wooden, unornamented, but generous, and the plain plaster walls of the lodge, whereon hung two or three old prints of gamebirds; and all the while I saw John out of the corner of my eye, looking at me. He spoke first. "Your friend has given his word to a lady; he must stand by it like a gentleman.
"Well crowed, my young London gamebirds," returned Fulford, coolly. "I meant no disrespect to the gentleman in green. Nay, I am mightily beholden to him for acting his part out and taking on himself that would scarce befit a gentleman of a company impedimenta, as we used to say in the grammar school. How does the old man? I must find some token to send him."
If England were given over to nationalism as Germany is given over, then a war between these two Powers, though it would still be a great dramatic spectacle, would have as little meaning as a duel between two rival gamebirds in a cockpit. We know, and it will some day dawn on the Germans, that this War has a deeper meaning than that.
"Well crowed, my young London gamebirds," returned Fulford, coolly. "I meant no disrespect to the gentleman in green. Nay, I am mightily beholden to him for acting his part out and taking on himself that would scarce befit a gentleman of a company impedimenta, as we used to say in the grammar school. How does the old man? I must find some token to send him."
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