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Drawing aside from the entrance to the room a portiere Peters had already visited the room Pym passed in, Peters remaining on the outer side of the curtained doorway, that he might prevent others from following, or even from viewing the young friend who was now to receive one of the keenest stabs with which Destiny ever pierces the human heart.
"He certainly did, and then he accused me of being at fault." "That would be just like him. Tell me about it, Tom." When the young inventor finished the story of the collision Mr. Damon sat silent for a moment. Then he remarked slowly: "That's just like Peters. A big bluff that's what he is. I wish I'd discovered that fact sooner I'd be money in pocket.
The Efficient Baxter's manner became distraught. His mind was working rapidly. "Should he be informed, sir?" "Eh! Who?" "Mr. Peters, sir in case he should have been deceived?" "No, no; Mr. Peters knows his own business." "Far from me be it to appear officious, sir; but " "Mr. Peters probably knows all about him. Tell me, Beach, who was it suggested this visit to the museum? Did you?"
"It's no white man's field, no place for us to stay only fit for I-talyans and such-like coloured labour." Gleeson turned away to Peters. "Which route are you taking?" he asked. "Over the rise," Peters answered. "It's good enough," Gleeson replied. "Oh, good enough? You bet, mister; this is a miner or I'm a rouse-about," Palmer Billy put in, with a nod towards Peters.
Did you ever see 'Wolves of the Bowery? There was a man in that in just my position, carrying important papers, and what they didn't try to do to him! No, I'm taking no chances, Mr. Samuel!" "I should have said you were, lugging that thing about with you." Mr. Peters seemed wounded. "Oh, I understand the mechanism perfectly, and I am becoming a very fair shot.
Jeorling, he added: ‘Did it never occur to you to ask Dirk Peters to enlighten you on the subject?’ ‘Yes, once,’ replied Martin Holt, ‘I questioned the halfbreed about it, and never did I see a man so overcome. He replied in so low a voice that I could scarcely understand him, ‘I know not I know not ’ and he ran away with his face buried in his hands.”
He has died and come alive again thirteen times, and traveled under a new name every time: Smith, Jones, Robinson, Jackson, Peters, Haskins, Merlin a new alias every time he turns up. I knew him in Egypt three hundred years ago; I knew him in India five hundred years ago he is always blethering around in my way, everywhere I go; he makes me tired.
Indeed, she seemed determined never to let a moment escape unoccupied. While Daddy was confined to his room, and Mrs. Peters lived, she faithfully supplied their wants, but after the former became convalescent, and started for his wife, and the latter went to her last rest, blessing her benefactress with her latest breath, she had no one but Fanny on whom to bestow her care, except, indeed, Mrs.
And when the little light-haired man had mentioned the day, which was Wednesday, she distinctly remembered having supped at Peters' on the Wednesday, but she had given no invitation to anyone; she was almost sure of that. "However, suppose you HAVE invited them, my good girl," murmured Labordette, who was beginning to have his doubts. "Perhaps you were a little elevated."
"Not," said Lord Arleigh, proudly, "that there is any need for concealment why should there be? but you see, Lady Peters if it were known that it was my wedding-day, I have so many friends, so many relatives, that privacy would be impossible for us; therefore the world has not been enlightened as to when I intended to claim my darling for my own."
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