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The people you were lunching with," she explained. "They're leaving." "That's all right. I said good-bye to them." He looked at Lord Marshmoreton. It seemed a suitable opportunity to break the news. "I was lunching with Mr. and Mrs. Byng," he said. Nothing appeared to stir beneath Lord Marshmoreton's tanned forehead. "Reggie Byng and his wife, Lord Marshmoreton," added George.
I brought the paper back with me, and thought of destroying it since I could see no way of returning it, without confessing my guilt to my husband. Heavens, I hear his step upon the stair!" The European Secretary burst excitedly into the room. "Any news, Mr. Holmes, any news?" he cried. "I have some hopes." "Ah, thank heaven!" His face became radiant. "The Prime Minister is lunching with me.
Bellingham gave me a full and detailed description of the will; and a pretty document it seems to be." "Did he give you permission to repeat the details to me?" "Yes. I asked specifically if I might and he had no objection whatever." "Good. We are lunching at Soho to-day as Polton has his hands full. Come with us and share our table and tell us your story as we go. Will that suit you?"
I felt certain that, on coming back instead of lunching in the restaurant as usual I should find you arranging my things to your convenience and suiting your own taste. That was why I ordered two covers: one for your humble servant, the other for his fair friend." She was listening to him now and in the greatest terror. So Daubrecq knew that he was spied upon!
He drew from his pocket the manuscript of a newly-written poem and, oblivious of his surroundings, stood by the car and recited it to me. The little restaurant was well filled with officers even at this late lunching hour of two o'clock.
The house was empty, and we "camped" in several of the rooms, lunching in a long gallery which looked straight out on to the Atlas Mountains: the mules went into a capacious stable; the servants made themselves comfortable in the kitchens. It is hard to find house-room in Marrakesh: of course a hotel is unheard of, nor is camping-ground to be met with easily.
You know quite well that I have never in my life pretended to care a rap about you except to pass the time. You are altogether too obvious. Very young girls and very old women would rave about you. You simply don't appeal to me. Perhaps I know you too well. What does it matter!" He sighed and examined a sauce critically. They were lunching at Prince's alone, at a small table near the wall.
"I've got a little boat in the harbour," Richard replied, as he drew up a chair. "I've been at Algiers for a time with some friends, and I've brought them on here. Just been lunching with my sister. Are you alone?" Hunterleys hesitated. "Yes, I am alone." "Wonderful place," the young man went on. "Wonderful crowd of people here, too.
He rose to go Cary had been lunching with me but paused for an instant upon my front doorstep. "If you insist upon it," added he, smiling, "I don't mind sharing in the plunder." It was in the latter part of May 1916. Cary was hard at work one morning in his rooms in the Northern City where he had established his headquarters.
No doubt some recent bivouackers, lunching in the deserted house, had left it there. Dunwoody again his exploits demand for him the honours of nomenclature flaunted his apple in the faces of his fellow-marooners. "See what I found, Mrs. McFarland!" he cried, vaingloriously. He held the apple high up in the light of the fire, where it glowed a still richer red.
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