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"Well?" said Lady Maxwell, turning to her new visitor as she handed him some tea, "were you as much taken with the grandmother as the grandmother was taken with you? She told me she had never seen a 'more haffable gentleman, nor one as she'd a been more willin to ha done for'!" George laughed. "I see," he said, "that my report has been anticipated." "Yes I have been there.
I believe as you thinks there's nobody on this 'arth as is to be compared of me, says you; and see now, you shall come here once a week, once a fortnit, once a month, even, and I'll never say no more about drivin' of you away; but you shall see me, and I'll speak of you kind and haffable; and whatever I wants done I'll tell you, do it: and it will be done; see if it won't!
And to do them justice, the great majority felt that they were on honour, and did not abuse the trust. But for Saurin, and for Edwards and a few others who followed Saurin's lead, the mischief did not end here. Mr Wobbler sometimes unbended Mr Saurin was such a "haffable gent" there was no resisting him and told anecdotes of his past experiences, which were the reverse of edifying.
The novelist?" "I'm thinking so, ma'am. A very haffable gentleman." "Try to get him. Ask if Mr. Lennox, is there. Or, no, I'll do the talking." Then presently she was doing it, collaborating rather in the dialogue that ensued. "Mr. Jones?" "Yes, darling." Cassy, swallowing it, resumed: "Mr. Jones, forgive a stranger for intruding, I " "Beautiful voice, forgive me.
So one day, after I'd done my work, and put things straight, for I never was one of your sluttish ones, Master Tom and your uncle, he's always been a kind gentleman to me, and a haffable, like yourself, Master Tom according, I comes upon my Jim at the Sunflower, and I follows him unbeknown for miles and miles right away to the West-End.
Barnes took them to dine at a club recommended his tailor and sent Lady Clara Pulleyn to call on Mrs. Higg who pronounced her to be a pretty young woman and most haffable. The Countess of Dorking would have been delighted to present these ladies had the Princess not luckily been in London to do that office.
"They may not be hignorant," said the little man doubtfully, "but no man could call them haffable." It flashed on me for the first time that perhaps there may have been the faintest want of geniality in the Drumtochty manner, but it was simply the reticence of a subtle and conscientious people.
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