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You see, me gone, there's nothing to 'amper 'er nothing to interfere with 'er settling down as a quiet, respectable toff. With a 'alf-brother, who's always got to be spry with some fake about 'is lineage and 'is ancestral estates, and who drops 'is 'h's, complications are sooner or later bound to a-rise. Me out of it everything's simple. Savey?" Well, that's just how it happened.
The Dean had not been seen again, even at Cross Hall. Mr. Holdenough had made no attempt after the reception, or rather non-reception, awarded to his wife. Old Mr. De Baron had driven over, and had seen the Marquis, but nothing more than that fact was known at Cross Hall. He had been there for about an hour, and as far as Mrs. Toff knew, the Marquis had been very civil to him. But Mr.
He had discovered such streets as this before when in Shovel's company, and they had watched the toffs go out and in, and it was a lordly sight, for first the toff waggled a rail that was loose at the top and then a girl, called the servant, peeped at him from below, and then he pulled the rail again, and then the door opened from the inside, and you had a glimpse of wonder-land with a place for hanging hats on.
And even if he were, it seemed that everyone concurred in thinking that the poor boy would die. Surely the Marquis would not have allowed a sick child to be carried away by an indiscreet Italian mother if he cared much for the sick child. But then Lord George had no real knowledge of these transactions. All this had come through Mrs. Toff, and he was hardly able to rely upon Mrs. Toff.
"It's the wye they talk in books," said Dickie, suddenly returning to the language of his aunt. "You bein' a toff I thought you'd unnerstand. My mistike. No 'fense." "Mean to say you can talk like a book when you like, and cut it off short like that?"
Sally thanked him, and made the excuse that she was tired. She wished Amelius good night, without waiting until they were alone together and, for the first time, without giving him the customary kiss. Toff waited until she had gone, and approached his master on tiptoe, with a low bow. "May I take the liberty of expressing an opinion, sir.
I've run more diamonds into the States, in one way or another, in my time, than you ever pinched out of the shirt-front of a toff on the Empire Prom., before they made the graft too hot for you and you came to take lessons from me in the gentle art of living easy." "Oh, cut that, cawn't you?"
"For God's sake, sir," cried the terrified old man, "what's the matter?" Amelius had turned to the strange ashy paleness which is only seen in men of his florid complexion, overwhelmed by sudden emotion. He stammered when he tried to speak. "Fetch the brandy!" said Toff, pointing to the liqueur-case on the sideboard. Sally brought it at once; the strong stimulant steadied Amelius.
Raymond is lavish with tips, or the human touch, for his goings and comings are meat to that kid. "He told me I had better hustle, for at four-thirty every day Mr. Raymond beat it! The boy was an artist in word-painting. He described my man as a real toff, none of your little yappers. He's going to haul in the pile and playing honest-to-God fair, too!" Joan burst out laughing.
They returned together at once to the cottage. Madame Toff was waiting to begin the search. The first discovery was easily made. Sally had taken off one or two little trinkets presents from Amelius, which she was in the habit of wearing and had left them, wrapped up in paper, on the dressing-table. No such thing as a farewell letter was found near them.
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