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Updated: June 22, 2025
"And now what about the window? Was that open or shut or what?" "Shut but not snibbed, sir." Ned turned to Bisset. "Did Sir Reginald ever forget to snib the windows, supposing one happened to be open?" "Practically never, sir." "Last thing before he left the room, I suppose?" said the lawyer. The butler hesitated. "I suppose so, sir," he admitted, "but of course I was never here to see."
It was not snibbed, and she made a movement as if to go to it; but, restraining herself, she turned her calm, cold face to the girl. "I have much to say to you," she repeated. "Indeed," replied Sylvia, politely, "I don't think you have treated me so well that you should trouble to converse with me. Will you please to be brief. Mr.
"And when did you offend me, think you?" "I answered you rather roughly when you took me up about the guinea." "Oh, then? Not at all. You snibbed me, but I richly deserved it." Another silence. "Well?" she said. "Go on! I say I richly deserved it. Go on!" "Go on where?" I asked testily. "You're not expecting me to say you didn't, are you?"
"Yes," said the visitor thoughtfully, "they seem to have been made by a tacketty boot." "And forbye that, there was a wee bit mud on the floor and a tacket mark in that!" "Was the window shut or open?" "Shut, sir; and the most extraordinary thing was that it was snibbed too!
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