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McCrae repeated, almost fiercely. Hodder smiled in spite of himself. "There's no reason," he said, "except the added work put on you without warning, and in this heat." "Ye'll not need to worry," his assistant assured him, "the heat's nothing to me." McCrae hesitated, and then demanded abruptly, "Ye'll not be visiting?" The question took Hodder by surprise.
And it doesn't take much of a wizard to tell that your nerves aren't good to stand that strain for over-long." "The heat " "Oh yes, the heat's making you sweat streams, and sending your face chalky-green, and setting your knees to play castañetas in cachucha time. We'll call it the heat. Anyway, it's exposure to an atmosphere that you aren't accustomed to, and it doesn't suit you.
Other tables, too, were breaking up and some of the guests preparing to leave. "No. I've played abominably," she acquiesced. "I'm sorry, partner" turning to Peter. "It must be the weather. This heat's intolerable." He put her apology aside with a quick gesture. "There's thunder in the air, I think. You shouldn't have troubled to play if you didn't feel inclined."
I beg your pardon. I hadn't noticed what you were talking about." "It's nothing," she laughed. "Only a funny old lady and she's gone now. I'm going, too at least, I'm going indoors to read. It's cooler in the house, but the heat's really not bad anywhere, since nightfall. Summer's dying. How quickly it goes, once it begins to die."
McCrae repeated, almost fiercely. Hodder smiled in spite of himself. "There's no reason," he said, "except the added work put on you without warning, and in this heat." "Ye'll not need to worry," his assistant assured him, "the heat's nothing to me." McCrae hesitated, and then demanded abruptly, "Ye'll not be visiting?" The question took Hodder by surprise.
"He'd like to prosecute a big corporation lawyer, if he thought he had any chance of getting a conviction," Pierre said. "Make a nice impression on the proletarian vote in the south end of the county." "You're a member of the Mohawk Club in New Belfast, aren't you?" Rand asked Gresham. "Well, go there and stay there for a couple of days, till the heat's off.
"Oh, lor'! Miss Polly, I'll soon set that going why, you has the wrong flue out, Miss. See now, the heat's going round it lovely. Oh, what an elegant pie you has turned out, Miss Polly! Why, it's quite wonderful! You has a gift in the cookery line, Miss. Oh, darling Miss Polly, don't you be a-naming of me after them Flooders; it's awful to think I'm like one of they.
His greeting was 'Hullo, Carruthers, you here? Thought you had got away long ago. Lucky devil, though, to be going now, just in time for the best driving and the early pheasants. The heat's been shocking out there. By lunch-time the weight of indecision had been removed, and I found myself entrusting Carter with a telegram to Davies, P.O., Flensburg.
"Th'ain't much peace and quiet these days, what with the sun." "Heat's something awful," agreed Pete Barnes, "but it ain't a patchin' on what it was at Cowpens." "Cowpens!" exclaimed a necktie drummer who was stopping at the Rye House for a day or so, "I thought Cowpens was a battle fought between the United States and the English back in 1781."
He meant to make plain to a revengeful man that Josiah had friends and that the attempt to blackmail him would be dangerous. Lamb was sitting up in bed apparently relieved, and was reading a newspaper. The moment he spoke Rivers knew that he was a far more intelligent person than the man of yesterday. Lamb said, "Billy, set a chair for Mr. Rivers. The heat's awful for October."
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