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Fleur was gone! Hours of remorse and indecision lay before him! And with a heavy sense of disproportion he smiled, and said: "Well thank you!" She brought in a little pot of tea with two little cups, and a silver box of cigarettes on a little tray. "Sugar? Miss Forsyte has much sugar she buy my sugar, my friend's sugar also. Miss Forsyte is a veree kind lady. I am happy to serve her.
He stood a little apart, looking sullen, irresolute, and thoroughly uncomfortable, the marks of tears still on his face. "Thanks veree much. I am going now," he blurted out abruptly; and Roy felt quite cross with him. Pity had evaporated. But the other boy's good-humour seemed unassailable. "If you're not in a frantic hurry, we can go back together." Chandranath shook his head.
"Doctair," he said, when we had entered, "this is a veree strange thing that has happened to Olaf. Veree strange. An' the natives of Ponape, they have been very much excite' lately. "Of what they fear I know nothing, nothing!" Again that quick, furtive crossing of himself. "But this I have to tell you. There came to me from Ranaloa last month a man, a Russian, a doctair, like you.
Fleur was gone! Hours of remorse and indecision lay before him! And with a heavy sense of disproportion he smiled, and said: "Well thank you!" She brought in a little pot of tea with two little cups, and a silver box of cigarettes on a little tray. "Sugar? Miss Forsyte has much sugar she buy my sugar, my friend's sugar also. Miss Forsyte is a veree kind lady. I am happy to serve her.
It was not in the least astonishing that a well-dressed native should address him presently, for he looked genial enough to be asked to hold a baby. King himself did not seem surprised at all. Far from it; he looked pleased. "Excuse me, sir," said the man in glib babu English. "I am seeking Captain King sahib, for whom my brother is veree anxious to be servant.
"Why deed you not seet by the beauteeful lady you meet again one time more on the train?" "Whom do you mean?" "The friend of Señorita Badgaire. I theenk she ees so veree pretty. She ees marreed, eh?" He shrugged his shoulders. "Yes, she's married," muttered Carker. "You are sorree?" "Sorry?" "Si, señor. Eef she was not marreed, perhaps you would beside her seet."
"Your sister is veree amiable, and the girl is pretty. Your father is veree old. I think your mother has trouble with him; I should not like to be her." Soames nodded at the shrewdness, the clear hard judgment in his young wife; but it disquieted him a little. The thought may have just flashed through him, too: 'When I'm eighty she'll be fifty-five, having trouble with me!
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