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"It sounds attractive," said Spencer. "And it is, believe me. Don't forget the name, Maloja-Kulm. It is twelve miles from everywhere, and practically consists of the one big hotel." Spencer procured his hat, gloves, and stick, and called a cab. "Take me to 'The Firefly' office," he said. "Beg pawdon, sir, but where's that?" asked the driver. "It's up to you to find out."
'E comes of a good stock, 'e does, an' yet I 'umbly ax yer pawdon, sir but the feller who tried to kill you an' me might ha' bin yer own brother." The waiter managed to remove the most obvious traces of Brett's escapade in the gutter, and incidentally cleaned the stick. It was a light, tough ashplant, with a silver band around the handle.
He made, behind Thompson's back, the motion significant of an emptied glass. "Aw! I see I see! Thawnks awfully for the hint. Good-evening, gentlemen and ah Mistah Tomkins!" Thompson broke away, shaking his fist in Wyatt's face. "Say that again and I'll brain you pawdon me, I should say, I'll smash your head in. Thompson's my name T-h-o-m-p-s-o-n, T h o m p s o n!
I don't want none of your 'arf-larks here, and, what's more, I won't 'ave 'em. I don't believe you're a copper at all." "I'm not. Far from it." "Then what d'yer mean coming 'ere saying you want my first-floor back?" "But I do. Or any other room, if that is occupied." "'Ow! Room? Why didn't yer siy so? You'll pawdon me, sir, if I've said anything 'asty-like. I thought but my mistake." "Not at all.
They are probably dead; if so, I am heir-at-law!" "I know where one of them is to be found at all events." "The elder? Philip?" asked Mr. Beaufort anxiously, and with a fearful remembrance of the energetic and vehement character prematurely exhibited by his nephew. "Pawdon me! I need not aunswer that question."
There may be among a certain set; but, I should think, not among well-informed, well-bred people. 'I BIG your PAWDON, Colambre; surely I, that was born in England, an Henglish-woman BAWN! must be well INFAWMED on this PINT, anyway. Lord Colambre was respectfully silent. 'Mother, resumed he, 'I wonder that Miss Nugent is not married!
"Oh," said the lady, who began to appear more and more a young lady, "Ah didn't know but Ah had mistaken the hoase. Ah suppose it's rather late to see the apawtments, and Ah most ask you to pawdon us." She put this tentatively, with a delicately growing recognition of Mrs.
As Philip glanced towards this personage, the latter fixed his glass also at him, with a scrutinising stare, which drew fire from Philip's dark eyes. The man dropped his glass, and said in a half provincial, half haw-haw tone, like the stage exquisite of a minor theatre, "Pawdon me, and split legs!" therewith stretching himself between Philip's limbs in the approved fashion of inside passengers.
Patton and Symington, and was in the act of saying that the social problem could not be much longer left unsolved; and then he chanced to turn, and discovered young Macklin, surveying him with elaborate superciliousness, and asking with his British drawl, "Aw I beg pawdon but what do you mean by the social problem?" And Thyrsis, with a quick glance at him, answered, "I mean you."
As Philip glanced towards this personage, the latter fixed his glass also at him, with a scrutinising stare, which drew fire from Philip's dark eyes. The man dropped his glass, and said in a half provincial, half haw-haw tone, like the stage exquisite of a minor theatre, "Pawdon me, and split legs!" therewith stretching himself between Philip's limbs in the approved fashion of inside passengers.
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