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Crummie-Toddie was in all respects suited for sport. Killancodlem, though it had the name of a shooting-place, certainly was not so. Men going there took their guns. Gamekeepers were provided and gillies, and, in a moderate quantity, game. On certain grand days a deer or two might be shot, and would be very much talked about afterwards.
If she once takes to you she never drops you." "Sticks like wax, I should say." "Quite like wax, Lord Giblet. And when she makes up her mind to do a thing she always does it. It's quite wonderful; but she never gets beaten." "Doesn't she now?" "Never. She hasn't asked us to Killancodlem yet, but I hope she will."
The feeling of being in the power of a lot of low blackguards is so terrible! I did love the poor brute so dearly. And now what have you been doing?" "Just nothing; and have seen nobody. I went back to Grex after leaving Killancodlem, and shut myself up in my misery." "Why misery?" "Why misery! What a question for you to ask!
Mabel Grex was to be at Killancodlem, and, determined as he still was to ask her to be his wife, he would make this his opportunity. Of real opportunity there had been none at Richmond. Since he had had his ring altered and had sent it to her there had come but a word or two of answer. "What am I to say? You unkindest of men! To keep it or to send it back would make me equally miserable.
"But how are you? Think what you have gone through since we were at Killancodlem!" "Don't talk of it." "I suppose it is not to be talked of." "Though upon the whole it has happened very luckily. I have got rid of the accursed horses, and my governor has shown what a brick he can be. I don't think there is another man in England who would have done as he did." "There are not many who could."
"Look at Killancodlem," Dobbes had been heard to say "a very fine house for ladies to flirt in; but if you find a deer within six miles of it I will eat him first and shoot him afterwards." There was a Spartan simplicity about Crummie-Toddie which pleased the Spartan mind of Reginald Dobbes. "Ugly, do you call it?" "Infernally ugly," said Lord Gerald. "What did you expect to find?
But had she not done so already when, by the side of the brook at Killancodlem, she had declared to him plainly enough her despair at hearing that he loved that other girl? Though she were to grovel at his feet she could not speak more plainly than she had spoken then.
Montacute Jones's garden-party, before that day in the rain at Maidenhead, before the brightness of Killancodlem, before the glories of Miss Boncassen had been revealed to him. "There is no time for that kind of thing now," he said weakly. "I thought that when you were here together " "I must dress now, sir; but I will tell you all about it when I get back from Cornwall.
Any little room would do for her. 'We haven't any little rooms at Killancodlem, said I; and then I left her. "Good-bye. Mind you are good and take care of yourself; and, whatever you do, let Popenjoy have a royal godfather." Then her father came over to see her. At this time Lord George was up in town, and when her father was announced she felt that there was no one to help her.
If you hate me, say so; but if you love me !" "I do not hate you, Lord Silverbridge." "And is that all?" "You asked me the question." "But you do love me? By George, I thought you would be more honest and straightforward." Then she dropped her badinage and answered him seriously. "I thought I had been honest and straightforward. When I found that you were in earnest at Killancodlem "
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