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We're deep in the mulligrubs." He entered smiling, removing his sombrero with his customary flourish. But as he advanced he shot a swift, keen look at Marion. "Something's happened!" she repeated to herself. But she came forward with a smile, and shook hands with Smythe, searching his face. And he was warning her again.
Could you give me the address of Miss Sampson, Miss Smythe?" "I shouldn't advise you to employ her, Miss Merivale," returned Pauline in a voice that had a sharp edge to it. For some reason or other, Clare's assistant was evidently not a favourite of hers. "I don't believe she knows her business properly. Lady Desborough's sister picked her up for Clare." "I might try her.
The young gentleman put his hand in his pocket and produced his Testamur, or "We bear witness"; a short printed document in Latin, which may be thus translated: "We bear witness that Arthur Wardlaw, of St. Luke's College, has answered our questions in humane letters. "GEORGE RICHARDSON, "ARTHUR SMYTHE, "EDWARD MERIVALE, "Examiners."
After standing in deep thought for a moment, she returned to the house. Miss Merivale was sitting in the drawing-room busy with her embroidery. She looked up with a smile as Pauline entered. "I was just wishing you or Rose would come in, Miss Smythe," she said. "I am not sure whether blue or green would be best for the centre of this flower."
True, her first shots went high and wild among the foliage, but she was fast getting the grip of the gun, and had actually once scraped the bark of the tree on which the target of white paper was tacked, when they were hailed by a cheerful voice demanding permission for an unarmed and perfectly harmless man to approach. "Smythe!" growled Huntington, resenting the interruption.
Now he asked a question that was being wildly debated in native circles that very afternoon. 'My lord, has Mr. Smythe paid all the thousand pounds yet? The Bishop started and stared; then he laughed. 'What do you know of Mr. Smythe's thousand pounds? he asked. Then he answered, 'No, Jack; why should he? Why indeed?
Smythe Johnes on one's visiting-card because it passes through the hands of a menial who is not to be supposed for a moment to announce plain Smythe Johnes; but it is the United States post-office which delivers the letters of Smythe Johnes, and they can suffer no contamination from a service which conveys the letters of plain William H. Taft to him with merely the explanatory affix of President, lest they should go to some other William H. Taft.
These columns may be very interesting in their way, but it always seems to me that they don't get hold of quite the right things to tell us about. They are very fond, for instance, of giving an account of the delightful dance at Mrs. De Smythe's at which Mrs. De Smythe looked charming in a gown of old tulle with a stomacher of passementerie or of the dinner-party at Mr.
"'My dear boy, I said, 'the case is as clear as daylight. She loves Smith. No girl who admired Smith could be attracted by Smythe. As your present self you will never win her. In a few weeks' time, however, you will be Smith. Leave the matter over until then. Propose to her as Smith, and she will accept you. After marriage you can break Smythe gently to her.
On the other hand, he's too far off to be chased, as we don't even know the direction. If you'll take my advice, Mr. Smythe, you'll put this at once in the hands of some energetic inquiry man, private rather than public. I know an extremely clever fellow, who has set up in business five minutes from here in your car.
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