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Updated: May 10, 2025
He went up it just like a sailor, and before I could hardly breathe he was coming down again with you in his arms, safe and sound. And who do you think the man was? 'The fire-brigade man, I suppose. 'Not a bit of it. The man who saved you was Vernie's friend, Cheap Jack.
There's nothing disreputable in it, though he could hardly go into society, perhaps, while he was driving the cart, because the mass of mankind are such fools. Why shouldn't Vernie's instinct be right, and this Cheap Jack be a reduced gentleman? Froude says that in the colonies Oxford men may be seen mending the roads.
We'll say no more about it. Come upstairs to your own room it's Vernie's day-nursery now, but you won't mind that, I know and take off your hat. Poor thing, how tired and ill you look! 'I feel as if I was going to be ill and die, and I hope I am, said Ida, petulantly. 'Don't, dear; it's wicked to say such a thing as that. You needn't be afraid of your poor pa; he takes everything easily.
'We do not drink champagne at dinner when we are alone, Brian, she said; 'and I don't think it is quite fair to Vernie's cellars that Moet should be served every day because you are here. 'Vernon's cellars! Ah, I forgot that we are all here on sufferance, and, that I am drinking Vernon's wine.
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