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"He knows very well," said Mrs. Petullo. "Here is the key no, I'll take it to him myself." "It's not the drink he wants, but me, the pig," said she as the servant withdrew. "Kiss me good afternoon, Sim." "I wish to God it was good-bye!" thought he, as he smacked her vulgarly, like a clown at a country fair. She drew her hand across her mouth, and her eyes flashed indignation.
Petullo close in his cry and holding his eye, defying so hurried a departure, while she kept up a chattering about the last night's party. All MacTaggart's anger rose against madame for her machination. "You saw me from the window," said he; "it's a half-cooked dinner for the goodman to-day, I'll warrant!"
The Chamberlain laughed, but still betrayed a little confusion: Mrs. Petullo wondered at the anger of his eyes, and a moment later launched upon an abstracted minuet with Montaiglon.
A few nights after that thundering canter from the spider's den where Kate Petullo sat amid her coils, the Chamberlain went to wander care among easy hearts. It was a season of mild weather though on the eve of winter; even yet the perfume of the stubble-field and of fruitage in forest and plantation breathed all about the country of Mac-Cailen Mor.
Petullo the writer, shrinking near the foot of the table in an adequate sense of his insignificance, almost choked himself by gulping the whole glass of wine at his lips in his confusion, and broke into a perspiration at the attention of the company thus drawn to him.
"You can't, man," protested Doom, though, it almost seemed, with some reluctance. "There could be no worse time for venturing there. In the first place, the Macfarlanes' affair is causing a stir; then I've had no chance of speaking to Petullo about you. He was to meet me after the court was over, but his wife dragged him up with her to dinner in the castle.
Has she been hearing about me, I wonder, and finding fault with her new jo? The Lord help her if she trusts him as I did!" "I want you to give me a chance, Kate," said the Chamberlain desperately. Petullo and the Count were still intently talking; the tragedy was in the poor light of a guttering candle.
Her husband had told her that monsieur was staying farther up the coast and intended to come to town.. Monsieur was in business; she feared times were not what they were for business in Argyll, but the air was bracing and much to the same effect, which sent the pseudo wine merchant gladly into the hands of her less ceremonious husband. As for Petullo, he was lukewarm.
Petullo, a compote's neither here nor there to the Duke. If you had spilt two of them it would have made no difference; there was plenty left. Never mind the dinner, Mr. Petullo, just now, I'm in a haste. There's a Frenchman "
"Good morning; I hope I have not interrupted business?" "Mr. MacTaggart was just going, my dear," said Mr. Petullo. A cracked bell rang within, and the Chamberlain perceived an odour of cooking celery. Inwardly he cursed his forgetfulness, because it was plain that the hour for his call upon the writer was ill-chosen.
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