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Seems almost as anxious to amalgamate as we ourselves are, Sey." A sudden thought struck him. "Do you know," he cried, looking up, "I really believe the same thing must have happened to both our exploring parties. They must have found a reef that goes under our ground, and the wicked old rascal wants to cheat us out of it!" "As we want to cheat him," I ventured to interpose.
For the benefit of the future traveller, I give, however, a few native expressions for distances, with their numerical equivalents: "cheimuk" near, twenty versts; "bolshe nyet" there is no more, fifteen versts; "sey chas priyédem" we will arrive this minute, means any time in the course of the day or night; and "dailóko" far, is a week's journey.
"Sey," my brother-in-law said sententiously, "you're incorrigible. You will persist in being the slave of prepossessions. He may have some good reason of his own for accepting. Wait till he shows his hand and then, we shall understand everything." So for the next three weeks the Forbes-Gaskells formed part of the house-party at Seldon. I must say, Charles paid them most assiduous attention.
In short to employ the golden word that amalgamation might prove better in the end than competition; and that he advised, at least, a conference on the subject. I wrote it out fair for him, and Sir Charles, with the air of a Cromwell, signed it. "This is important, Sey," he said. "It had better be registered, for fear of falling into improper hands.
"Yours, with the profoundest respect and gratitude, "Otherwise RICHARD PEPLOE BRABAZON." Charles laid down the letter with a deep-drawn sigh. "Sey, my boy," he mused aloud, "no fortune on earth not even mine can go on standing it. These perpetual drains begin really to terrify me. I foresee the end. I shall die in a workhouse.
"Hang it all, Sey," he said to me in the smoking-room, a few evenings later. "This Colonel Clay is enough to vex the patience of Job and Job had large losses, too, if I recollect aright, from the Chaldeans and other big operators of the period."
"Have you seen them to-day, Eily?" said Sheila, still holding the girl by the hands, and looking at the fair, pretty, strange face. "It wass sa day before yesterday," she answered in a whisper, while a pleased smile appeared on her face, "and sey will be here sa night."
Be active a bit, man, wilt thou, and just force open his teeth with the haft of thy dudgeon-dagger." "Hold, hold he is conformable," said Tomalin; "see, see, he signs for the goblet give him room, boys! OOP SEY ES, quoth the Dutchman down it goes like lamb's-wool! Nay, they are true topers when once they begin your Turk never coughs in his cup, or stints in his liquoring."
He is well known by sight to not a few of the clerks; and his appearance in Threadneedle Street is looked forward to with great regularity within a few weeks of each lawful quarter-day. So, on the morning after our arrival in town, Charles observed to me, cheerfully, "Sey, I must run into the City to-day to claim my dividends. There are two quarters owing." I accompanied him in to the Bank.
"Its colour," I admitted, "is in places assisted by a well, you know, a restorer." Dolly broke into a mischievous sly smile. "Yes, it is," she continued. "And, oh, Uncle Sey, where the restorer has er restored it, you know, it comes out in the photograph with a sort of brilliant iridescent metallic sheen on it!" "Bring them down, my dear," I said, gently patting her head with my hand.
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