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When the commercial gentleman approached her with his infernal box of bon-bons, she took one. He could have murdered Soper. He was profoundly depressed by the spectacle of Lucia's ways. If she behaved like that to every one, what had he to go upon? Nothing, nothing; it was just her way. And yet, he did not exactly see her sending messages to Soper.
"He'll be back in another minute." He was back already, sociable, elated, smoking a cigar. Upstairs with the ladies he and his bon-bons had met with unprecedented success. Rickman opened his eyes. "Ever try," said Mr. Soper, "a Flor di Dindigul? 'Ave one. You'll find the flavour very delicate and mild." He held it out, that Flor di Dindigul, as an olive branch to the tempestuous young man.
Downey was always expecting to see him drop under the table. He had never done it yet, but there was no knowing when he mightn't. Whatever the extent of Mr. Rickman's alleged intemperance, his was not the vice of the solitary drinker, and to-night the claret was nearly all drunk by Spinks and Soper. It had the effect of waking in the commercial gentleman the demon of sociability that slept.
Here's his poor wife, the Widow Soper that is to be, if she a'n't a'ready" "Do be quiet, my good woman," said Dr. Kittredge. "Nothing serious, I think, Mrs. Soper. Deacon!" The sudden attack of Deacon Soper had begun with the extraordinary sound mentioned above.
"Then you think, sir, that we shall remain here long enough to explore the island?" I said. "Why do you wish to explore the island?" he asked. "Because I have a notion that my brother Jack is upon it," I replied. "They say there are pigs here, and there are, no doubt, plenty of birds, and he would be able to live as well as Miles Soper and Coal did on Juan Fernandez."
"Oh Lord," said Spinks, "what an orful mess I'm in!" He said it to himself; for he had resolved to talk no longer to Miss Roots. He could have borne it better had not the terrible preoccupation of Rickman thrown Flossie on his hands. In common decency he had to talk to her at the dinner-table. Soper, and the painful sympathy of the other boarders.
Downey's for two years, she had dragged its young hero at her chariot wheels for two years, she had filled the heart of Ada Bishop with envy and the hearts of Mr. Soper and Mr. Spinks with jealousy and anguish for two years; and now she had all these people pitying her and looking down on her because she had been so queerly treated; and this was even more intolerable to poor Flossie.
Now about the diamond ring belonging to Miss Langmore, which I gave you a short while ago to examine? Have you ahem examined it?" "I have, and so has Doctor Soper. We used a magnifying glass and made several tests." "Did you find anything unusual?" "We did. In the first place two of the prongs which hold the diamond in place are bent out and up in such a fashion that each forms a sharp point.
"If there's a cock, there must be hens and a hen-roost hereabouts," observed Miles Soper, hurrying in the direction whence the sounds proceeded. We followed; there, sure enough, sheltered by the hill, and under the shade of the trees, was not only a hen-house of good size, but a hut scarcely bigger than it was neatly built and thatched with palm-leaves. "It must be the residence of the stranger.
By order of the Committee of Fifty. JOHN R. SOPER, Chairman. JOHN TUTHILL, Secretary. So far for the "Workies;" and now for Miss Wright. If I understand this lady's principles correctly, they are strictly Epicurean.
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