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The bar went up to 5 4½, Smedley's jump, and you might have heard a fly cough. We were pretty nervous, I can tell you, and it would have done you good to see Violet standing up and holding her breath. Barnworth was the only chap that didn't seem flurried. Smedley and Marky both looked blue, and poor Froggy looked as if he was going to blubber. "My wig!
Why, even Miss Severance's horrid Ceylon is better than this, and she does give you cream, instead of this milk of magnesia or soapy water or whatever the beastly stuff is. And to have to drink it out of these horrid thick cups like toothbrush mugs. I'm sure I'll find a chewed-up old toothbrush when I get to the bottom." "Don't be vulgar, Marky.
"Stop that noise," said he, "and get up at once." "Oh, please, Marky Mr Railsford we're so bad and and Daisy would be so sorry if I got consumption, or anything of that sort." "We shall get into trouble, sir," added the baronet, "for getting up without the medical's leave. He told us to stay in bed, and " Here another cough, which, however, was promptly suppressed.
'Bong jour, marky, says I. 'Good morning no headache, says he. So I said I had one, and how I must have been uncommon queer the night afore; but they both declared I didn't show no signs of having had too much, but took my liquor as grave as a judge. "'So, says the marky, 'Deuceace has been with you; we met him in the Palais Royal as we were coming from breakfast. Has he settled with you?
"That's not half of it," said Dig excitedly. "I say, Marky I mean Mr Railsford; please Herapath wants to see you. He's in a bad way up- stairs. It's that cad Felgate. He's bashed us. He was in an awful wax about the dodge we played him over that sack, you know, and tried to pay us out the other day; but we kept him out.
"Well keep it dark, you know. Shut up, Dig, and don't make me laugh, I say there's such a grand joke about him." "Out with it," said the guests, who were beginning to think again about the herrings. "Well, this fellow I call him Marky, you know Mark's engaged to my sister, and " "Ha ha ha!" chimed in Dig. "And he calls her `Chuckey, I heard him. Oh, my wig!"
"I don't fancy any fellow knows anything you don't, Marky I mean Mr Railsford. I don't." "Don't you? Do you know," said the master, "I have sometimes had an impression you did. I am quite relieved to hear it, Arthur." "Oh, you needn't be afraid of me," said Arthur, lost in admiration for the cleverness of his future brother-in-law. "I'm safe, never you fear."
So I said he was a gentleman, and asked him if he would like to take anything, when my servant should get it for him; but the Honourable Deuceace don't drink of a morning, and he went away to some business which he said he had. "Presently there's another ring at my outer door; and this time it's Bloundell-Bloundell and the Marky that comes in.
Aren't you obliged to go?" "I am obliged to go, that's why I have resigned. You'll know all about it some day." "But, I say, can't you withdraw your resignation and stay? Oh, I say, Marky, we shall be awfully up a tree without you here. Why ever are you going? Can't it all be squared?" "No, old fellow, I fear not. But I am not going for a week yet.
Tell you what, Dig, well get a tandem tricycle, my boy, with the first year's money. Hope they'll pay it in advance, don't you? then we can get it after break-up, and have some ripping spins in the summer holidays. Better fun than fooling about in Switzerland with Marky and Daisy.
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