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The house palpitated to an infamous melody punctuated by the stump of the barrel-organ's one leg, as Giuseppe, above, moved from room to room after his rebel slave. Now and again a floor shook a little under the combined rushes of Lord Lundie and Sir Christopher Tomling, who gave many and contradictory orders. But when they could they cursed Jimmy with splendid thoroughness.
"Tomling, Sir Christopher Tomling, the South American engineer who built the " "San Juan Viaduct. I know," said Penfentenyou. "We ought to have had him with us.... Do you think a monkey would climb the tree?" The organ-grinder at the gate fenced his beast with one arm as Jimmy-talked. "Don't show off your futile accomplishments," said Lord Lundie. "Tell him it's an experiment. Interest him!"
Tell him to take the beast's petticoat off," said Sir Christopher Tomling. Lord Lundie returned, very little winded, through a gap higher up the hedge. "They're all out, thank goodness!" he cried, "but I've raided what I could. Macrons glaces, candied fruit, and a bag of oranges." "Excellent!" said the world-renowned contractor.
Sir Christopher Tomling has been ravished from the Argentine, where, after all, he was but preparing trade-routes for hostile peoples, and now adorns the forefront of Penfentenyou's Advisory Board.
I gathered from something Jimmy let fall that the three had been at Harrow together. "That Tomling has a head on his Shoulders," muttered Penfentenyou. "Pity we didn't get him for the Colony. But the question is, will the monkey climb?" "Be quick, Jimmy. Tell the man we'll give him five bob for the loan of the beast.
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