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As a matter of fact Owen and Barry were too busy during these strenuous days to have time for social delights; but now and then they met one or other of these various girls, visited one of the actresses on a "first night," dined, reluctantly, in Earl's Court or Belsize Road, and on the following morning Owen would ask Barry, half-teasingly, whether Rose or Sybil or Gwendoline struck him as the most suitable bride for an already jilted bachelor.
"But suppose, just suppose this wonderful fortune never does materialize," she said half-teasingly but still tremulously, a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye. "What then?" "Never suppose it. It can't help it," he cried confidently. "Why even now I can see particles of gold in the air. To-morrow, next day, the day afterward, we shall have our cake.
Now, I should never have thought it! The last person of the whole lot! Clever very clever! Richard, you'll get all the books that that man has written!" Viner lighted his pipe, thrust his hands in the pockets of his trousers and leaned back against the mantelpiece. "My dear aunt!" he said half-teasingly, half-seriously. "You're worse than a drug-taker.
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