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"Taste!" cried June, flaring up at once; "wouldn't give that for his taste, or any of the family's!" Mrs. Small was taken aback. "Your Uncle Swithin," she said, "always had beautiful taste! And Soames's little house is lovely; you don't mean to say you don't think so!" "H'mph!" said June, "that's only because Irene's there!"
He would be setting up as a man of property next, with a place in the country! A man of property! H'mph! Like his father, he was always nosing out bargains, a cold-blooded young beggar! He rose, and, going to the cabinet, began methodically stocking his cigar-case from a bundle fresh in.
I have some reason to believe that he is a God-fearing man, though his religion does not take a er congregational turn. Moreover, he is a sick man." "H'mph!" Miss Oliver sniffed. "The amount of disease disseminated by house-flies is, I am told, incalculable," pursued Mr Hambly.
"Taste!" cried June, flaring up at once; "wouldn't give that for his taste, or any of the family's!" Mrs. Small was taken aback. "Your Uncle Swithin," she said, "always had beautiful taste! And Soames's little house is lovely; you don't mean to say you don't think so!" "H'mph!" said June, "that's only because Irene's there!"
"Madam, since when has the gallant Major superseded Mr. Robbie as your family adviser?" "H'mph!" said Miss Gilchrist; which in itself was not reassuring. But she turned to the lawyer. "My dear lady," he answered her look, "this very imprudent young man seems to have burnt his boats, and no doubt recks very little if, in that heroical conflagration, he burns our fingers.
Suffer me, then, to remind you that your present captivity is but the fortune of war, against which you have struggled heroically; that your self-sacrifice has saved your fleet; and that, as France knows how to appreciate gallantry in her adversaries, your bondage shall be merely nominal." "H'mph," said the little man, "fine talk, sir, fine talk!
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