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For I have so much that I would say to you." It was with a sigh of relief that the frightened woman hastily passed through Ram Lal's spacious snuggery in rear of his jewel mart and was soon ensconced in a little pagoda, where Major Hawke seated himself at her side and skillfully took up his soft refrains.
By a quiet and Job-like endurance of all manner of taunting suspicions, and unmerited sarcasms, to which I daily became more reconciled, I absolutely rose into something like favour; and before the first month of my banishment expired, had got the length of an invitation to tea, in her own snuggery an honour never known to be bestowed on any before, with the exception of Father Malachi Brennan, her ghostly adviser; and even he, it is said, never ventured on such an approximation to intimacy, until he was, in Kilrush phrase, "half screwed," thereby meaning more than half tipsy.
I counted six myself this morning when I went upstairs just to get something out of the snuggery." "Did you forget to lock it after you, Jack?" "No; but an idea came to me. At the time I thought it a bright one; but now I'm more than half sorry I ever tried it." "Oh! then you left the door unlocked again on purpose?" "Yes, and with the window open, at that.
I did better I turned it to good account." He raised a hand and pointed upward to an obviously modern ceiling of strong oak timbers. "Had that put in," he continued, "and turned the top of the building into a little snuggery. Come up!"
Caldew entered a side door which opened into a small snuggery, divided from the tap-room by a wooden partition.
However, if there was no withdrawing, neither was there the slightest break in the smooth outer continuity of things. "Hello, darling Cally! Do come in and share our lovely little snuggery. Isn't it cunning? don't you think we were awfully smart to find it? Oh, do you know Dr. Vivian? Miss Heth." "How do you do?" said Cally, without a second glance.... "This is she, Mr.
Major Hardwicke bowed and, obtaining his conge, sat in expectant waiting until the two men were comfortably seated in Johnstone's snuggery in the deserted mansion. They talked indifferently over Abercromby's arrival till Simpson announced dinner. "I would like you to dine with me, Major Hardwicke," said the old Commissioner, "for I have something now to say to you."
"Why, there it is, my lad; can't you see?" I looked round, but there was nothing visible but a few footprints in a muddy spot, and a hole of very moderate size, evidently going some distance down into the moist, boggy soil. "Is this it?" "Yes, of course." "But you said a nest." "Well, I meant, as I told you, his nest, his snuggery. Now I'm going to see if he's at home."
"The doctor's private snuggery was at the back of the house, looking out on fields and trees, doomed but not yet destroyed by the builder. Horrible objects in brass and leather and glass, twisted and turned as if they were sentient things writhing in agonies of pain, filled up one end of the room.
But," he added, "did you find out anything about Tobias?" In Which I am Afforded Glimpses into Futurity Possibly Useful. Two or three evenings before we were due to sail, at one of our snuggery conclaves, I put the question whether any one had ever tried the divining rod in hunting for treasure in the islands.
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