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In truth, Major White never sent telegrams, and rarely received them. He blew out his cheeks and said a second time that he was damned. Then he threw the telegram into a waste-paper basket, which was rarely put to so legitimate a use; for the major never wrote letters if he could help it, and received so few that they hardly kept him supplied in pipe-lights.
Soon Macfarlane handed a little pile of gold to his companion. "A compliment," he said. "Between friends these little d d accommodations ought to fly like pipe-lights." Fettes pocketed the money, and applauded the sentiment to the echo. "You are a philosopher," he cried. "I was an ass till I knew you. You and K between you, by the Lord Harry! but you'll make a man of me."
The two tables put together in a corner, were, at length, converted into a very fair bed; and the stranger was left to the Windsor chairs, the presidential tribune, the beery atmosphere, sawdust, pipe-lights, spittoons and repose. But the last item was long, long, long, in linking itself to the rest.
For the moment his enthusiasm carried me away, but I see now how selfish it was, and I have before me the face of Jimmy when he paid us his first visit and found that the closet was not the drawing-room. Jimmy is a fair specimen of a man, not without parts, destroyed by devotion to his pipe. To this day he thinks that mantelpiece vases are meant for holding pipe-lights in.
Jimmy wrote letters to editors, of a most cutting nature, on the moon, breaking the table as he stepped on and off it, and we gave the butterflies to William John. The reptiles had to crawl off the door, and we made pipe-lights of the Japanese fans.
Y' see, I'm in with a big firm of auto builders mebbe you know 'em Rawbon an' Spedding, the Rawbon bein' my dad? No? Well, anyhow, I got the contract, got it so quick it made my head swim. Gee, that fellow in the War Office was buyin' up autos like I'd buy pipe-lights. The hundred lorries was shipped over, an' I saw 'em safe through the specified tests an' handed 'em over.
It was the third morning after the duel, and Goguelat was still in life, when the time came round for me to give Major Chevenix a lesson. At least, he was a man of education; and of the others with whom I had any opportunity of speech, those that would not have held a book upside down would have torn the pages out for pipe-lights.
Soon Macfarlane handed a little pile of gold to his companion. 'A compliment, he said. 'Between friends these little d-d accommodations ought to fly like pipe-lights. Fettes pocketed the money, and applauded the sentiment to the echo. 'You are a philosopher, he cried. 'I was an ass till I knew you. You and K- between you, by the Lord Harry! but you'll make a man of me.
Sae I just tare it up aiblins for pipe-lights I canna mind at this time." "And why," asked I, more vexed and disappointed than I liked to confess "why did you not tell me before?" "How wad I ken that you had need o't?
One of the doctor's medical books lay open on the table, half of the leaves gutted out, I suppose, for pipe-lights. In the midst of all this the lamp still cast a smoky glow, obscure and brown as umber. I went into the cellar; all the barrels were gone, and of the bottles a most surprising number had been drunk out and thrown away.
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