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None of the household grudged him his triumph or resented their own dismissal from attendance in the West Room. The women-kind once more superfluous to Cæsar's well-being, resumed their wonted routine with generous content. Patricia's routine appeared to consist very largely of golf in which she and Geoffry Leverson could undoubtedly give Christopher long odds.
Geoffry, in his gratitude for her decisive action, which lifted the onus of a broken engagement from his shoulders, found a substantial ground for his belief that they had sacrificed themselves on the altar of duty. Mrs. Leverson sighed profoundly with unconscious satisfaction over the highly heroic behaviour of them both and yielded easily to Geoffry's desire to travel.
"What are you going to do?" she asked. "Send for the police?" Her uncle shook his head. "Certainly not," he answered. "If it wasn't that I suppose they will arrange it so that the affair could not possibly be traced back to them, I should be in the room myself. As it is, I shall leave the matter to Leverson, the man who has just gone out. He will get as much help as he wants.
Archer, the well-known critic of The World, was the first and only journalist to perceive that the play was a classic by virtue of "genuine dramatic qualities." Mrs. Leverson turned the humorous sayings into current social coin in Punch, of all places in the world, and from a favourite Oscar Wilde rapidly became the idol of smart London. The play was an intellectual triumph.
I'd 'a' told him, 'You're the meanest kind of a crook I ever heard of fur wantin' to lie down on your fat back and whine out of payin' fur the grub you put in your big gander paunch, I'd tell him, 'and now you march to the lock-up till you can look honest folks in the face, I'd tell him. Say, Billy, some crooks are worse than others. Take Nate Leverson out there.
"And all about motors, too?" questioned Max eagerly. "Can you really drive one?" Christopher laughed. "I've won a race or two, and I've got a certificate. Perhaps it won't pass in England." "Will you teach me to drive? I just long to: but St. Michael says no though he doesn't mind Geoffry Leverson teaching me to shoot.
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