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Updated: June 23, 2025
"Just seen Vereker not a note wrong. Pressed me to bosom keeps me a month." So much I read on her paper while the cabby dropped a grin from his perch. In my excitement I paid him profusely and in hers she suffered it; then as he drove away we started to walk about and talk. We had talked, heaven knows, enough before, but this was a wondrous lift.
"And mine, captain, is Vereker, Colonel Vereker, at your service," returned the other, reciprocating the skipper's cordiality as he looked him straight in the face, holding his hand the while in a firm grip. He let go the skipper's fist, however, the next moment and a puzzled expression came into his eyes as he glanced round occasionally, apparently in search of some one or other. "Heavens!
Vereker, who had been up once more to change, coming out of his room. He was humming an air and had on a spotted jacket, and as soon as he saw me his gaiety gave a start. "My dear young man," he exclaimed, "I'm so glad to lay hands on you! I'm afraid I most unwittingly wounded you by those words of mine at dinner to Miss Poyle.
"My God! dear Hercules, see how we are calumniated," said the irate Frenchwoman, rather illogically, turning to her miserable atom of a husband, who gesticulated and shrugged his shoulders in response, and looking over the skipper and Colonel Vereker as if neither existed, she went on to remark to Elsie, who, however, did not appear to relish very much her conversation or endearments, that, "some persons whom she would not condescend to name, were, of monsters, the most infamous and ungrateful men, indeed, of the gutter but that she, the little one, was an angel."
"Oh! egad do you? Well, I like the name Peregrine." "Good!" said I, and we walked on down the hill together. "My other name is Vereker," I volunteered, seeing he was silent. "Vereker?" he repeated and stopped to stare at me. "No relation to Sir Jervas Vereker?" "His nephew!" "The devil you are!"
Like me isn't it? Impracticable. But I COULD do you some illustrations. I drew Rosamond entertaining the Ministerial Circle last night and showed it to Vereker Wells while we were waiting for breakfast. He nearly died with laughing. I couldn't have dared to let Luke see it. 'That I can believe. And I should be murdered by the Leichardt'stonians if I allowed it to be published.
As Ambrose had remarked after his inspection from the balcony, the two were very alike, save that the younger was smaller, finer cut, and the more nervously alive of the two. "You are my nephew, Vereker Tregellis?" asked Sir Charles. "Yours to command, sir." "I hear bad reports of you from Oxford." "Yes, sir, I understand that the reports are bad." "Nothing could be worse." "So I have been told."
Then, clenching his brawny fists, he raised frowning eyes to a bayonet above the mantel, a long, deadly-looking thing that glittered with constant cleaning. "Ah, by God!" he growled fiercely, "by God, Mr. Vereker, sir there's them as I'd like t' have wrigglin' their beastly lives out on the end o' my old bagnet " "Hot water, Jarge!" commanded the buxom Mary from the stairs.
As I stood at the door she added: "You've insulted him!" "Do you mean Vereker?" "I mean the Dead!" I recognised when I reached the street the justice of her charge. Yes, it was her life I recognised that too; but her life none the less made room with the lapse of time for another interest.
And turning his back, he began to limp away; but in a moment I was off my horse and, hastening after, ventured to touch his arm, then fell back in sheer amazement before the ferocious glare of his eyes; yet his voice was as politely modulated as usual when he spoke: "Sir, were you any other than Peregrine Vereker old as I am, I would call you out and shoot you with peculiar satisfaction "
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