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If I do this for you, will you do something for me? And Caesar spoke up as usual, without a second's hesitation, 'Of course, I will. And then Scaife laughed again, just as Lovell said, 'All right, I'll give Verney his "cap" before tea, and you will make a fourth at bridge with us to-morrow afternoon." "Oh, oh!" groaned John. "Dash it all, don't look so wretched. There's not much more.
They spoke in German, because Dr Hegelmann had steadfastly refused to learn any language beyond his own. All his energies of learning had been focused on his one specialty. "I want to explain," said Rivière, "that Fraülein Verney is not well-to-do. She is, I believe, practically dependent on her profession."
Verney, the meeting resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means for getting rid of the boys' headmaster without falling foul of the National Union of Teachers; but these proceedings, though of extreme interest to all concerned, were recorded in no Minutes. The meeting broke up in amity and Bendish came out into the purple twilight, taking Val's arm. It was gently withdrawn.
"Your governor may feel that we want a fellow like you." John was blushing because he remembered what the Head of the House had said about the Verneys. Desmond glanced at him keenly. He detested flattery laid on too thick. But this was a genuine tribute. For the first time he smiled. "Thank you, Verney," he said, more genially.
Serious food for thought, this. "But I would never bother him," said John to himself, "as Fluff has bothered me, never!" "Hullo, Verney!" "Hullo!" said John. Coincidence had thrust Caesar out of his thoughts and on to the narrow path in front of him. "I'm not a ghost," said Caesar. John hesitated. "I was thinking of you," he confessed; "and then I heard your voice and saw you. It gave me a start.
At the end of August John Verney, the explorer, returning to Verney Boscobel after an absence of nearly four years, began to write his now famous book on the Far East. Then John learned from his mother that his uncle had borne all the charges of his education. When he thanked him, the uncle said warmly "You have more than repaid me, my dear boy; not another word, please, about that.
Verney, you will acknowledge this tie, and as my brother's friend, I feel that I may trust you." Then, with lids humid with a tear and trembling voice, she continued "Dear friends, do not think it strange that now, visiting you for the first time, I ask your assistance, and confide my wishes and fears to you.
"It was a great grief to us a great loss to my son." "Yes I know. I can imagine what you must have felt. And then it was so unlucky that it should have happened just now." Mrs. Peyton shot a reconnoitring glance at her profile. "His dying, you mean, on the eve of success?" Miss Verney turned a frank smile upon her.
I turned angrily away: "Verney," said Adrian, "you are very cynical: sit down; or if you will not, perhaps, as you are not a frequent visitor, Lord Raymond will humour you, and accompany us, as we had previously agreed upon, to parliament." Raymond looked keenly at him; he could read benignity only in his gentle lineaments; he turned to me, observing with scorn my moody and stern demeanour.
"It will make me most miserable if I leave you angry with me. Don't you know that I would far, far rather have gone with you? Rosie, you know that, don't you?" But Rose had a stubborn love of truth, which prevented her from responding to this appeal as Pauline wished. "It would have been a pity for you to refuse Madame Verney," she said. "And I shall have a nice afternoon.
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