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The innocent Twemlow, expecting Fledgeby to be astounded by what he should unfold, and not for an instant conceiving the possibility of its happening every day, but treating of it as a terrible phenomenon occurring in the course of ages, related how that he had had a deceased friend, a married civil officer with a family, who had wanted money for change of place on change of post, and how he, Twemlow, had 'given him his name, with the usual, but in the eyes of Twemlow almost incredible result that he had been left to repay what he had never had.
That one was Erle Twemlow, and the regiment would rather have lost any other two officers. Urgent as it was, for the safety of the rest, to fly with every feather from this pestilential coast, sails were handed, boats despatched, and dealings tried with Hunko Jum, who had reappeared with promptitude, the moment he was not wanted.
Twemlow! Milly appealed quickly, 'do tell Harry and Ethel what Dr. Talmage said to you. I think it's so funny I can't do the accent. 'What accent? he laughed. She hesitated, caught. 'Yours, she replied boldly. 'Very amusing! Harry said judicially, after the episode of the Brooklyn collection had been related.
"She will rage and rap out oaths like a trooper, but if Jeof Wildairs is the man he used to be, he will make her obey him, if he chooses or he will break her back." "'Twould be an awful battle," said Roxholm, "between a will like hers and such a brute as he, should her choice not be his." "Ay, he is a great blackguard," commented Twemlow, coolly enough.
'It is very strange, says Mrs Lammle, coldly and boldly, and with some disdain, 'how like men are to one another in some things, though their characters are as different as can be! No two men can have less affinity between them, one would say, than Mr Twemlow and my husband. Yet my husband replies to me "You have no proof," and Mr Twemlow replies to me with the very same words!
Twemlow could think of nothing to say to this pretty pouting creature who had rushed in from a later world and dissipated the atmosphere of mediævalism, and so he addressed himself to Meshach upon the eternal subject of the staple trade. The women at the table talked quietly but self-consciously, and Twemlow saw Milly forced to taste parkin after three refusals.
Yes, he shall, so don't argue. And while he's about it he may as well take you straight to Knype. You can go in the buggy there's a hood to it. When the time came for departure, John insisted on lending to Twemlow a large driving overcoat. They stood in the hall together, while Twemlow fumbled with the complicated apparatus of buttons. Stanway whistled.
But this Osmonde did not hear, having already left town for a few days at Camylott, where my Lord Dunstanwolde accompanied him, and at the week's end they went together to Warwickshire, and as on the occasion of Osmonde's other visit, the first evening they were at the Wolde came my Lord Twemlow, more excited than ever before, and he knew and told the whole story.
While Twemlow was dwelling upon this nice question, and sympathising deeply with the animal on the spit, Tuloo, the head councillor of the realm, appeared, an ancient negro full of wisdom and resource.
'Yes. She thanked him, and without shaking hands or saying good-night she went upstairs and resumed her place by the bedside. She could hear Uncle Meshach's cab drive away. 'How came Mr. Twemlow to be here, mother? Rose demanded quietly. 'I don't know, Leonora replied. 'He must have been at uncle's.
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