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"I think he'd rather like to be in the rush," Henry said. Then Rachel came into the room, followed by Gilbert. "Roger," she said, "Gilbert's going to enlist!..." "So Quinny's just been telling me. Have a whisky, Gilbert?" "No, thanks, old chap," said Gilbert, "but if you have a cigarette!..." "I'll get them," Rachel exclaimed.
Gilbert stretched his legs out in front of him and then drew them back again. "Our little Quinny's got this world neatly parcelled out," he said. "Hasn't he, coves? There he sits, like a little Jehovah, handing out natures as if they were school-prizes. 'Here, my little lad, here's your set of morals.
"He's much nicer than you, and I do think it's horrid of you to go gutting fish just for fun. The fishermen have to do it, else we wouldn't get any breakfast, and of course plaice are very nice for breakfast...." "Yahhh!" yelled Ninian. "Well, anyhow," she continued, "Quinny's much nicer than you are. Aren't you, Quinny?" "No, he isn't," Ninian asserted stoutly. "I'm ten times nicer than he is!"
"I say, Mary," he said, "Quinny's fearfully gone on wildflowers and birds and ... and Nature ... and that sort of stuff. Show him the primroses and things, will you? I've got an awful hunger and I want to see the mater. Oh, Quinny, these are primroses, these yellow things, and Mary'll show you anything else you want to see. There's a jolly lot of honeysuckle and hazelnuts in these hedges later on.
Stibo raised his eyes slowly to Quinny's but veiled as was the look, De Gollyer perceived it, and smilingly registered the knowledge on the ledger of his social secrets. "That's it, by George! that is it," said Steingall, who hurled the enthusiasm of a reformer into his pessimism. "It's all so simple; but they won't understand. And why do you know why? Because a woman is jealous.
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