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The toast having been honoured by all and by none with a richer reverence than by Oover, despite his passionate mental reservation in favour of Pittsburg-Anabaptism and the Republican Ideal the snuff-box was handed round, and fruit was eaten. Presently, when the wine had gone round again, the Duke rose and with uplifted glass said "Gentlemen, I give you " and there halted.
Unable to avenge himself, Greddon had looked to the Duke to act for him. When he saw that this young man did but smile at Oover and make a vague deprecatory gesture, he again, in his wrath, forgot his disabilities.
"Without pretending to be quite sure what a skunk is," said the Duke, "I take you to be all that it isn't. And the high esteem in which I hold you is the measure for me of the loss that your death would be to America and to Oxford." Oover blushed. "Duke" he said "that's a bully testimonial. But don't worry.
So, at least, they seemed to the Duke. And to-night, but that he had invited Oover to dine with him, he could have been dining with Zuleika. And this was his last dinner on earth. Such thoughts made him the less able to take pleasure in his guest. Perfect, however, the amenity of his manner.
Ah, Jim! whin ye git up in the marnin', a falin' shtewed, an' niver a bit o' breakfast in ye, an' go out in the djew barefut, as ye was borrn, lavin' yer coat kapin' company wid yer ugly owld hat, waitin' for yer pork and pertaties, an' see yer pig wid his two paws an' his dirty nose rachin' oover the pin, an sayin' 'good-marnin' to ye, an' squalin' away wid his big v'ice for his porridge, ye'll remimber what I say.
The Duke felt that the blame was on himself, who had elected Marraby to the club. Mr. Oover, too, looked grave. All the antiquarian in him deplored the sudden rupture of a fine old Oxford tradition. All the chivalrous American in him resented the slight on that fair victim of the feudal system, Miss O'Mora.
'Posh, he say, 'here's a letter with some money I niver expected to git, he say. 'That's a good job, when just then the boom come over wallop and caught him fair on the side of his hid, and knocked him oover into the harbour like one o'clock. He was a wearin' of his topper same as us'al, and all of a sudden up he come agin just as Jack an' me was raychin' oover arter him.
"Then, Duke," said Oover, slowly, "I should believe that all those yarns I used to hear about the British aristocracy were true, after all. I should aver that you were not a white man. Leading us on like that, and then Say, Duke! Are you going to die to-day, or not?" "As a matter of fact, I am, but " "Shake!" "But " Oover wrung the Duke's hand, and was passing on. "Stay!" he was adjured.
He wheeled round, plucked out his watch nine! the concert! his promise not to be late! Zuleika! All other thoughts vanished. In an instant he dodged beneath the sash of the window. From the flower-box he sprang to the road beneath. The other men had rushed to the window, fearing the worst. "No," cried Oover. "That's all right. Saves time!" and he raised himself on to the window-box.
And Greddon remembered himself remembered he was only a ghost, impalpable, impotent, of no account. "But I shall meet you in Hell to-morrow," he hissed in Oover's face. And there he was wrong. It is quite certain that Oover went to Heaven. * As Edward VII. was at this time on the throne, it must have been to George III. that Mr. Greddon was referring.
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