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"Take me for one of your own trade, wouldn't you? Well, I'm not such a fool as I look. I suppose you fellows who are tied to the treadmill excuse me, Swordsley, but work's work, isn't it? I suppose you think a man like me has nothing to do but take it easy: loll through life like a woman.
Look here, Addison, you won't refuse my tipple, I know. Well, take a cigar, at any rate, Swordsley. And, by the way, I'm afraid you'll have to go round the long way by the avenue to-night. Sorry, Mrs. Swordsley, but I forgot to tell them to leave the gate into the lane unlocked. Well, it's a jolly night, and I daresay you won't mind the extra turn along the lake.
Swordsley, Lucy and Agnes Granger, their brother Addison, and young Jack Emmerton from Harvard were all, for divers reasons, stirred to the proper pitch of feeling. Mr.
Swordsley, no doubt, was saying to himself: "If my good parishioner here can afford to buy a motor-boat, in addition to all the other expenditures which an establishment like this must entail, I certainly need not scruple to appeal to him again for a contribution for our Galahad Club."
Stilling, cigar in mouth and thumbs in his waistcoat pockets, was impressively perorating from his usual dominant position on the hearth-rug. "I said: 'If I have the thing at all, I want the best that can be got. That's my way, you know, Swordsley; I suppose I'm what you'd call fastidious. Always was, about everything, from cigars to wom " his eye met the apprehensive glance of Mrs.
By George, sir, I'd like either of you to see the time it takes I won't say the brain but just the time it takes to pick out a good motor-boat. Why, I went " Mrs. Stilling set her embroidery-frame noiselessly on the table at her side, and turned her head toward Wrayford. "Would you mind ringing for the tray?" The interruption helped Mrs. Swordsley to waver to her feet.
Why, I thought my wife Isabel, didn't we No? Well, it must have been my mother, then. Of course, you know, anything my good mother gives is well virtually You haven't asked her? Sure? I could have sworn; I get so many of these appeals. And in these times, you know, we have to go cautiously. I'm sure you recognize that yourself, Swordsley.
Isabel Stilling, sitting beside Mrs. Swordsley, her bead slightly bent above the needlework with which on these occasions it was her old-fashioned habit to employ herself Isabel also had doubtless her reflections to make.
Swordsley, who looked like her husband with his clerical coat cut slightly lower "so I said: 'If I have the thing at all, I want the best that can be got. Nothing makeshift for me, no second-best. I never cared for the cheap and showy. I always say frankly to a man: 'If you can't give me a first-rate cigar, for the Lord's sake let me smoke my own." He paused to do so.
The interest of the latter two who, from opposite ends of the drawing-room, exchanged a fleeting glance when Stilling again launched his craft on the thin current of the talk the interest of Mrs. Stilling and Wrayford had already lost its edge by protracted contact with the subject. But the dinner-guests the Rector, Mr. Swordsley, his wife Mrs.
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