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"That is the gentleman," whispered the other, indicating Jawkins, who was smoking in apparent unconsciousness and watching a game of pool. "I saw him just now talking with the famous beauty, Mrs. Oswald Carey." "With Mrs. Carey?" exclaimed the King. "I have never heard her speak of him." The incident disturbed him little. He was too much absorbed by the idea of Jawkins's wealth.
I telephoned to Mr. Jawkins to inquire, but he answered, 'Not as I know of, miss. I suppose he is so fearfully practical he wouldn't care if a real ghost met him in a remote wing." "What a pity we didn't live in the last century when people still gave ghosts the benefit of the doubt," said Lord Brompton, sadly. "Now we are certain that there never were any."
But the money obligation is mutual, sir mutual." And Jawkins so far forgot himself as to slap his pockets. "Dear me," said George the Fifth, "dear me. You must be very rich. Is is there anything I can do for you, Mr. Jawkins?" Jawkins's manner suddenly changed, and he became again the serious man of affairs.
"Sir, yes," said Jawkins, who did not like to say "Yes, sir," as being too colloquial. "We have often heard of you, Jawkins, and favorably," the monarch went on. "I understand that several of our poorer gentlemen are indebted to your exertions for their ahem pocket money." Jawkins smiled. "Well, sir, I flatter myself I have been the discoverer of retiring talent to some extent.
Jawkins entered, bowing low. It was the first time he had ever met his Majesty face to face. When he rose, which was with considerable difficulty, he backed slowly away.
She is like a magnificent old ruin, almost feudal in fact, and as proud as Lucifer. Her stare is said to be withering, and the poise of her head makes a man's tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth." "And I shall have to take her in to dinner for the next three days?" groaned Windsor. "Of course, my dear sir; but, believe me, you will enjoy it more than Her Grace will," replied Jawkins.
Carey went in and bought a copy of the newspaper. In it he found the sailing-list of the City of Rio, and there the first name was "Mrs. Oswald Carey and maid," and then, just below, "Jarley Jawkins." Carey stood on the sidewalk several minutes, like a statue. Then, slowly crumpling up the newspaper in his hand, he threw it in the gutter.
I will ring for some whiskey and water if you care for a snifter." "I beg to be excused," replied Jawkins, deprecatingly. "You American gentlemen must have the constitutions of horses; you seem to be able to smoke and take 'snifters, as you drolly call them, at all hours, but I really cannot do it, you know. Do you find things to suit you here, Mr. Windsor?
"What you ask is impossible. There are moments in a woman's life when even a diamond seems lustreless as your eyes, Mr. Jawkins, if you will pardon the simile." Her sleepless night had made her wrong burn so grievously that she could not refrain from sententiousness, even in the presence of this man whom she despised. The undertaker scratched his head thoughtfully.
There were some two hundred men he knew at his club in the West End but which one of these, who had not been at Aldershot, would leave his snug rubber at whist for the Tower? There was Jawkins if Jawkins could be brought to think it worth his while. Mr. Windsor the shrewd American was with his daughter in America; and the daughter deemed him false, and had forgotten him. False!
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