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Jimmy pleaded that he could be a sillier ass than anybody living; but Charteris was firm. "No," he said. "You must be Captain Browne. Fine acting part. The biggest in the piece. Full of fat lines. Spennie was to have played it, and we were in for the worst frost in the history of the stage. Now you've come, it's all right. Spennie's the ideal Lord Herbert. He's simply got to be him-self.
So, dis mug, what 'do you t'ink he does?" Spike laughed shortly, in professional scorn. "Why " "Is this gentleman a friend of yours, Spennie?" inquired Lady Julia politely, eying the red-haired speaker coldly. "It's " Spennie looked appealingly at Jimmy. "It's my man," said Jimmy. "Spike," he added in an undertone, "to the woods. Chase yourself. Fade away." "Sure," said the abashed Spike.
Jimmy was still deep in thought when the train, which had been taking itself less seriously for the last half hour, stopping at stations of quite minor importance and generally showing a tendency to dawdle, halted again. A board with the legend "Corven" in large letters showed that they had reached their destination. "Here we are," said Spennie. "Hop out.
He was Spennie Dreever, the man of blood and iron, the man with whom it were best not to trifle. But it was really, come to think of it, uncommonly lucky that he was engaged to Molly. He recoiled from the idea of attempting, unfortified by that fact, to extract twenty pounds from Sir Thomas for a card-debt. In the hall, he met Saunders. "I have been looking for your lordship," said the butler.
"You mustn't, Spennie. You mustn't, really. You " "You look rippin' in that dress," said his lordship, irrelevantly. "Thank you, Spennie, dear. But listen." Molly spoke as if she were humoring a rebellious infant. "You really mustn't take that money. You must put it back. See, I'm putting this note back. Give me the others, and I'll put them in the drawer, too.
The change of treatment which had begun after her marriage with the American had had an excellent effect upon him, but it had not been pleasant. As Nebuchadnezzar is reported to have said of his vegetarian diet, it may have been wholesome, but it was not good. McEachern, for his part, regarded Spennie as a boy who would get into mischief unless he had an eye fixed upon him.
"I like a little touch like that," he said. His lordship looked startled. "I wouldn't have touched you," he began, "if it hadn't been " "A little touch like that letter-writing," Sir Thomas went on. "It shows a warm heart. She is a warm-hearted girl, Spennie. A charming, warm-hearted girl! You're uncommonly lucky, my boy." His lordship, crackling the four bank-notes, silently agreed with him.
Somebody else had known a man whose father had fired at the butler, under the impression that he was a housebreaker, and had broken a valuable bust of Socrates. Spennie knew a man at Oxford whose brother wrote lyrics for musical comedy, and had done one about a burglar's best friend being his mother. "Life," said Wesson, who had had time for reflection, "is a house which we all burgle.
"You understate it, my dear Spennie." "But I'm not a cad." "You're getting quite rosy, Spennie. Wrath is good for the complexion." "And if you think you can bribe me to do your dirty work, you never made a bigger mistake in your life." "Yes, I did," said Wesson, "when I thought you had some glimmerings of intelligence.
Wesson won the next. "I've got the hang of it all right, now," he said complacently. "It's a simple sort of game. Make it more exciting, don't you think, if we played for something?" "All right," said Spennie slowly, "if you like."
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