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"It won't be your duty, it can't be your duty, to get good people into trouble, Faith. I find it my duty to keep out of trouble, and I like to treat others the same as myself." "You are such a lover of duty, dear Dolly, because everything you like becomes your duty. And now your next duty is to your dinner. Mrs. Twemlow is coming I forgot to tell you as well as Eliza, and Mrs. Stubbard.
'In half an hour that ass Twemlow will be here, he thought, looking at the office dial over the mantelpiece. And then he left his room, calling out to the clerks' room as he passed: 'Just going on to the bank. I shall be back in a minute or two. At the south-western corner of the works was a disused enamel-kiln which had been built experimentally and had proved a failure.
Peters? Don't you think there is danger he may change his mind about that five thousand dollars if we keep him waiting too long?" "Not a chance of it. Being almost within touch of the scarab has had the worst effect on him. It has intensified the craving. By the way, have you seen the scarab?" "Yes; I got Mrs. Twemlow to take me to the museum while you were talking to the butler.
For, though this celebration of to-day is all a mockery, he is my husband, and we must live. Do you think it like? Twemlow, in a stunned condition, feigns to compare the portrait in his hand with the original looking towards him from his Mephistophelean corner. 'Very well indeed! are at length the words which Twemlow with great difficulty extracts from himself. 'I am glad you think so.
'Well, I guess she's got a handsome name to her, Twemlow remarked perfunctorily, rising and leaving Hannah alone at the table. 'And she's the handsomest woman in the Five Towns: that I do know, said Meshach as, in the grand manner of a connoisseur, he lighted his cigar. 'And her was forty, day afore yesterday, he added with caustic emphasis.
Here he was treated well, and soon learned enough of their simple language to understand and be understood; while the King, who considered all white men as of canine origin, was pleased with him, and prepared to make him useful. Then Twemlow was sent, with an escort of chiefs, to the land of the Houlas, as a medicine-man, to win Queen Mabonga for the great King Golo.
"'Tis over! 'Twas but a stab of pain." And he refilled his glass with wine and drank it. "You live too studious a life, Ned," said Twemlow. "You have looked but poorly this month or two." "Do not let us speak of it," Lord Dunstanwolde answered, a little hurried, as before. "What what is it you think to do or have you yet no plan?"
And because five was a convenient number they all played. Twemlow and Milly were the best performers; Milly's gift for card-playing was notorious in the family. 'Do you ever play poker? Twemlow asked, when the other three had been beggared of counters. 'No, said John, cautiously. 'Not here. 'It's lots of fun, Twemlow went on, looking at the girls. 'Oh, Mr. Twemlow, Milly cried.
"I was telling Miss Willoughby," he added apologetically to Mrs. Twemlow, "about the cats in London. They were a great trial." For perhaps three seconds his social reputation swayed to and fro in the balance, while the company pondered on what he had done. It was new; but it was humorous or was it vulgar? There is nothing the English upper servant so abhors as vulgarity.
'If he doesn't come well, he doesn't come, she thought of her husband, as she smiled interrogatively at Arthur Twemlow, holding a lump of sugar aloft in the tongs. 'The Reverend Simon Quain asked who you were, at dinner to-day, said Harry. During the absence of Leonora and her guest, Harry had evidently acquired information concerning Arthur. 'Oh, Mr.
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