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You really must make it up with the Major, Simpkins. I hope to see a good deal of you while I'm in Ballymoy, and it will be most inconvenient for me if you won't speak to the Major while I'm staying in his house." "Did you say that you knew Miss King?" "Not intimately," said Meldon; "at least not very intimately.
After Carter and Simpkins had taken their leave of the staff of the Tocsin I watched a very moving scene from the window, when they bade good Mrs. Wattles farewell.
That gives him such a comfortable sense of superiority that he doesn't a bit mind grovelling before the other fellow. What is totally impossible is to apologise when you're in the wrong. You must be able to realise that." "I'm not at all sure," said Simpkins, "that I ought to accept the invitation. Major Kent's hostility to me has been most marked. Everybody about the place has noticed it."
There's nothing draws people together more than a common misfortune." "But you can't expect a woman to take to a man when she sees him in the state Simpkins was in when we were on the reach towards the island." "Not if she's all right herself," said Meldon; "but when she's in the state Miss King was in she's past noticing anybody's complexion.
Don't go on about the carpet. Tell me plainly and straightforwardly why you call Simpkins a meddlesome ass." "Because he pokes his nose into everybody's business," said the Major, "and won't let people alone." Meldon took a note on a sheet of paper. "Good," he said. "Simpkins meddlesome ass pokes his nose into everybody's business. Now, who is everybody?" "Who is what, J. J.?" "Who is everybody?
Athelstone replied, evidently pleased by his interest and knowledge. "He was Amosis, a king of the eighteenth dynasty, and Nefruari's husband. A big, powerful man!" "What a bully cigarette brand he'd make!" thought Simpkins, and aloud he added: "They must have been a fine-looking pair."
"Excuse me one moment," said Meldon. "I must give the Major a hint. He's one of those men who, though extremely kind and sympathetic, is often a little wanting in tact." "He's all right," said the judge. "He's quite happy." "I daresay he is," said Meldon. "My point is that Simpkins isn't. How can he possibly ?"
And as her eyes, full of fear in the first startled consciousness of discovery, met his, he sprang at her, and pinioned her arms to her side. But only for a moment. Fear fought with her, and by a mighty effort she half shook herself free. Simpkins found himself struggling desperately now to regain his advantage.
"Not then " began the woman, but Simpkins cut her short by jumping to his feet with a cry of "What's that!" and his voice was sharp with fear. For in that silent second, while he waited for her answer, he had heard a noise out in the hall, the sound of stealthy feet behind the veil, and he had seen the woman's eyes gleam triumph.
If Simpkins was a friend of yours, and if Miss King was particularly fond of me, there'd be no use our taking them out at all. They wouldn't be obliged to talk to each other." "If you've finished your dinner, J. J., we may as well go into the next room and smoke. I don't see that there's any use going on with this conversation." "There isn't; not the least.
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