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Edwin answered humbly. "Only in a translation." Yet there was a certain falseness in his humility, for he was proud of having read the work. What sort of a duffer would he have appeared had he been obliged to reply `No'? "You ought to read French in French," said Tom, kindly authoritative. "Can't," said Edwin. "Bosh!" Charlie cried. "You were always spiffing in French.

I wish now that I'd left him there, but, of course, I didn't know at the time that he was a spy. That idea only came to me afterwards. I say, Cousin Frank, wouldn't it be absolutely spiffing if it turned out that he really was?" It was impossible for any one to deny that such a thing would be spiffing in the very highest possible degree.

I know the place." A minute or two later the two swung off in Trafalgar Square, and the driver rattled away into the crowd. Jack was delighted. "Spiffing run, Acton, eh?" "Glad you liked it, young 'un. Now let us localize the Universal Sporting Club. I know it's about Covent Garden somewhere."

Just about four o'clock another knock sounded at his door, and Arthur Herapath presented himself, leading by the arm the tawny-haired hero of the chariot race. "What cheer, Marky?" cried the brother-in-law to be. "Here we are. Had a spiffing spin up from the station, hadn't we, Dig? This it Dig, you know, Sir Digby Oakshott, Baronet, M.P., A.S.S., and nobody knows what else.

But a week later the week before Easter he came to us suddenly in my rooms where Viola was correcting proofs for me. He had come to tell us of his good luck. His novel had been accepted. I was glad, of course. But Viola was more than glad. She was excited, agitated. She jumped up and said: "Oh, Jimmy!" How simply spiffing!"

"Very smart, that belt, my dear," said her friend. "I rather fancy it myself, and Kathleen would do up my hair in this new way," said Nora, removing her hat that the full glory of her coiffure might appear. "Do you like it?" "Perfectly spiffing!" ejaculated Mr. Duckworth, who had taken a seat just behind her chair.

Robert is already more than a head taller than we are, I mean than Liesel and me; I think he is fifteen. He says Fraulein Grete and carried my cloak which Mother sent me because of the rain and he saw me home after supper. To-morrow is my birthday and everyone has been invited and Mother has made strawberry cream and waffles. How spiffing. July 30th. To-day is my birthday.

We used to live in flannels, and spent long afternoons together in the boat we had such a spiffing boat, as light and as clean in the water as a fish and we used to linger in the bulrushes, and come back when the moon was rising with our hands full of flowers." "But why was it broken off?"

At last the train rolled into Derby, and Dick asked a red pimply-faced man in a round hat if he had secured good places for his posters. 'Spiffing, the man answered, and he saluted Leslie. 'But I couldn't get you the rooms. They're let; and, between ourselves, you'll 'ave a difficulty in finding what you want. This is cattle-show week. You'd better come on at once with me.

I spent the morning with mother at the dressmakers and she chose two perfectly spiffing things, one of white chiffon over silk, made modafied Empire, with little bunches of roses here and there on it, and when she and the dressmaker were hagling over the roses, I took the scizzors and cut the neck of the lining two inches lower in front. The effect was posatively impressive.