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"My maid," said Gertrude hesitating; for she had not intended to travel so expensively. "She " "She comes with us to take care of me; I have tickets for everybody," said Trefusis, handing the woman in. "But " "Take your seats, please," said the guard. "Going by the train, sir?" "Good-bye, Sir Charles.
He was hardly convinced of what had seemed at first the most obvious feature of the case, Trefusis's inferiority to himself. He stood under the trees until Trefusis reappeared on his way home, making, Erskine thought, as much noise with his heels on the gravel as a regiment of delicately bred men would have done.
"Very fruitlessly done," said Trefusis. "I am a good shot, but of what use is it to me? None. I once met a gamekeeper who was a Methodist. He was a most eloquent speaker, but a bad shot. If he could have swapped talents with me I would have given him ten thousand pounds to boot willingly, although he would have profited as much as I by the exchange alone.
"You are not upset, sir," said Jansenius loudly. "You do not care a damn." Trefusis recoiled. "You damned my feelings, and I will damn yours," continued Jansenius in the same tone. Trefusis involuntarily looked at the door through which he had lately passed. Then, recovering himself, he said quietly: "It does not matter. She can't hear us."
Lord bless me, we're here to-day and gone to-morrow." "True, very true!" "Sir Francis has a high opinion of you." The doctor looked a little foolish. "Everything was done that could be done, Mr. Trefusis; but Mrs. Jansenius was very anxious that no stone should be left unturned.
Trefusis retorted that the fact of a man paying a thousand pounds for a portrait proved that he had not earned the money, and was therefore either a thief or a beggar.
Gertrude's manner towards him softened so much that he, believing her heart given to his rival, concluded that she was tempting him to make a proposal which she had no intention of accepting. Sir Charles, to whom he told what he had overheard in the avenue, professed sympathy, but was evidently pleased to learn that there was nothing serious in the attentions Trefusis paid to Agatha.
Jansenius selected a highly ornamental one, and proposed to defray half the cost of its erection. Trefusis objected that the epitaph was untrue, and said that he did not see why tombstones should be privileged to publish false statements.
To think that all these years I've slaved and slaved only to be told such things by a boy as " Then a very dramatic thing occurred. The door opened, just as it might in the third act of a play by M. Sardou, and revealed the smiling faces of Mrs. Cole, Miss Amy Trefusis and the Rev. William Jellybrand, Senior Curate of St. James's, Orange Street. Mr.
Why do you resist your good angel by suppressing those natural and sincere impulses which come to you often enough, and sometimes bring a look into your face that might tame a bear a look which you hasten to extinguish as a thief darkens his lantern at the sound of a footstep." "Mr. Trefusis, I am not accustomed to be lectured." "That is why I lecture you.
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