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Claire continued extremely scornful. "Yes, I dare say," she admitted. "She may set out to be smart too, hung round with things like a Christmas-tree, but she's as common as a sixpenny bazaar. I'll tell you why I don't like her, Major Staines, and who she reminds me of, but perhaps you think her pretty, too? I mean that horrid woman, Mrs. Bouncing in our hotel?"
He stuck his hands into his pockets and stared back at her grimly, like a Staines. He wasn't going to say anything; only if she had belonged to him he would have stopped her. His eyes said he could have stopped her; but she didn't belong to him, so he set his square jaw, and gave her his unflinching, indifferent disapproval. She appeared after this to be unaware of him, and turned to her brother.
I'll never look at another good woman again the other sort will do for me if I can't stick it without." "Don't racket too much," said Lady Staines, planting her last bulb with scientific skill. "They say keeping women's very expensive up there on account of the Russian Princes." "By the by," said Winn, "thanks for the money. Had any difficulty in extracting it?"
Now one jogs along, and all that you have got to look out for, is to see that you don’t run foul of another craft, or let one run foul of you. Yes, we had a rough time of it in those days, and I ain’t sorry that they are over.” “But you look out sharp for pirates when you are among the islands, don’t you, Mr. Staines?”
Some centuries earlier or later the exact point for fortification would have lain at Staines, and Windsor may be properly regarded as a sort of second best to Staines. The great Roman roads continued until the twelfth century to be the main highways of the barbaric and mediæval armies.
After supper, in a pause of conversation, Staines turned to Dick, and said, rather abruptly, "Suppose that dam of yours were to burst and empty its contents, would it not be a great misfortune to you?" "Misfortune, sir! Don't talk of it. Why, it would ruin us, beast and body." "Well, it will burst, if it is not looked to."
Have you got it badly, lad?" "No, sergeant; only my left arm broke. It was the hoof of a horse as he galloped over me and struck me aside." "Hah!" said the sergeant, as he marched beside the improvised litter and went on talking to his injured man. "It's bad, my lad, bad; but it don't mean funeral march, and between ourselves, Staines Dick. I wish I was you." "I don't understand this, Hurst.
It chanced that, just as the carriage drove into Staines, the party in it became aware of a brilliant cavalcade riding towards them. The Princess whispered to Patsy, "The Dukes look through them, my dear, and do not let yourself be overcome!" Patsy had no idea of being overcome. She held her head well up, and sat beside the Princess with a pale face but steadfast eyes.
Staines, she was all dignity, and even majesty, in the presence of this chatterbox; and the smoothness with which the transfiguration was accomplished marked that accomplished actress the high-bred woman of the world.
Then they attacked Dorchester, and burned part of the city, but retired before all was consumed, hearing that a large force was marching against them; so onward past the ruins of Wallingford, which had not yet been rebuilt, destroying Bensington on their road. Thus they went on to Staines, when, fearing the forces of London, they returned through Kent to their ships.
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