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If I get into trouble about it, it will be your fault, but next time I come and talk with you, you'll have to listen to me if I shove the words down your throat. Good night!" "Good night, Norgate," Hebblethwaite replied pleasantly. "What you want is a week or two's change somewhere, to get this anti-Teuton fever out of your veins.
Would it be possible that they had brought the country to a great prosperity by destroying the very bulwarks of its security? The car drew up with a jerk, and Hebblethwaite came back to earth. Nevertheless, he promised himself, as he hastened across the pavement, that on the morrow he would pay a long-delayed visit to the War Office.
I think we'll send you to Tokyo and let you have a turn with the geishas in the cherry groves." "I wouldn't go out for your Government, anyway," Norgate declared. "I've given you fair warning. I am going in on the other side. I'm fed up with the England you fellows represent." "Nice breezy sort of chap you are for a pal!" Hebblethwaite grumbled. "Well, get along with you, then.
To amuse oneself is good, but to work is better still. Have you, by chance, any report to make?" "I have had a long conversation with Mr. Hebblethwaite at Ranelagh this afternoon," Norgate announced. There was a sudden change in Selingman's expression, a glint of eagerness in his eyes. "With Hebblethwaite! You have begun well.
"I am given to understand," Hebblethwaite said slowly, "that you have absolutely disregarded the vote that the whole number of battleships are practically commenced, and the whole number of cruisers, and rather more than the number of smaller craft." Wyatt threw his cocked hat upon the table. "Well, I am up against it a bit sooner than I expected," he remarked. "Who's been peaching?"
"I have a list here of properties in the outskirts of London, all bought by Germans, and all having secret preparations for the mounting of big guns. You might just pass that on to the War Office, and they can destroy the places at their leisure. There isn't anything else, Hebblethwaite. As I told you, I've played the double traitor. It was the only way I could help.
You scorn any preparations for war. You do not believe in it. You give back the money that we should spend in military or naval preparations to the people, for their betterment. It is very wonderful." "We act according to our convictions," Mr. Hebblethwaite pronounced.
The rooms were open to any person acquainted with members of the family. Southerners are respectfully informed that the use of only for but is a Northern peculiarity. Sensitive, delicate. "And 't was na for a Popish yoke That bravest men came forth To part wi' life and dearest ties, And a' that life was worth." "Ephraim Hebblethwaite!" I cried out. "I believe so," he said, laughing.
"It is our earnest hope that we have risen sufficiently in the scale of civilisation to be able to devote our millions to more moral objects than the massing of armaments." "And you have no fears?" she persisted earnestly. "You honestly believe that you are justified in letting the fighting spirit of your people lie dormant?" "I honestly believe it, Baroness," Mr. Hebblethwaite replied.
Don't change, I beg of you. It is charming to meet any one like you." "I thank you for your good opinion," I replied; and, my Aunt Dorothea just then coming up, I resigned my seat to her, and dropped the conversation. In my room Lucette was standing with the cloak ready to throw over me. "Monsieur Ebate is at the escalier derobe," said she. Poor Lucette could get no nearer Hebblethwaite.
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