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Mafferton, as a secret, that there was hardly any chance of my union with Dicky after what poppa had said. When I assured him that I had no intention whatever of disobeying my parent in a matter of which he was so much better qualified to be a judge than I, it was impossible not to see Mr. Mafferton's good opinion of me rising in his face.
"Look here, Mamie," he said, "a fellow in my fix, you know! Don't get excited. How am I going to confide in you unless you keep your hair on!" "What, may I ask, did Mr. Mafferton say when you told him that?" I asked sternly. "He said now you'll be madder than ever. I won't tell you." "Mr. Dod Dicky, haven't we been friends from infancy!" "Played with the same rattle. Cut our teeth together."
Mafferton frowned portentously. But nothing seemed to have any effect on Brother Eusebius. "There are such a lot of you, and you are sure to be so inquisitive, that we'll both go with you," said he, and took candles from a shelf. Not ordinary candles at all coils of long, slender strips, with one end turned up to burn.
We were both somewhat doubtful about the necessity of a bridesmaid in a registry office, but we agreed that such a thing would go a long way towards persuading Isabel to enter it. When we arrived at the hotel we found Mrs. Portheris and Mr. Mafferton affectionately having tea with my parents. Isabel had gone to bed with a headache, but Dicky, notwithstanding, displayed the most unfeeling spirits.
If you make use of a proverb you see, you've got to allow for reflection first, and reflection afterwards, and a sigh, and very few of us have time for that. It is one of our disadvantages." Mr. Mafferton heard me with attention. "Really!" he said in quite his old manner when we used to discuss Presidential elections and peanuts and other features of life in my republic.
I asked in despair. "Left 'em in my light overcoat pockets, Mamie. I'm a bigger ass than than Mafferton." "You are," I said with decision. "No Englishman goes anywhere without his light overcoat. What have you done with yours?" "Left it in the carriage," replied Dick humbly. "That shows," said I bitterly, "how little you have learned in England.
As we had already acquired the legend, and were sitting behind the smoke stack, there was no reason why we should not discuss Mr. Mafferton. "I suppose he does not, by any chance, mention an alternative lady," I said carelessly. "I don't know," said Miss Callis, "that I should be disposed to listen to him if he did. He would have to put it in some other light." "Why should you object?" I asked.
Mafferton of his first attachment again. They never do it in England, except for purposes of fiction." "Well, I worked that racket all I knew. I even told him that American girls as often as not changed their minds." "Richard! He will think I what will he think of American girls! It was excessively wrong of you to say that I might almost call it criminal!" Dicky looked at me in pained surprise.
"I have travelled in the States to some extent," responded Mr. Mafferton. "Seen Brooklyn Bridge and the Hudson, I presume. Had a look at Niagara Falls and a run out to Chicago, maybe. That was before I had the pleasure of meeting you. Get as far as the Yosemite? No? Well, you were there long enough anyhow to realise that our hotels are run on the free will system." "I remember," said Mr.
"I mean I have myself to blame, I know," and as Mr. Mafferton dropped into the seat opposite Miss Callis I saw Mrs. Portheris regard him austerely, as one for whom it was possible to make too much allowance.
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