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"You know your ma said I was to smack " "Don't. Please don't," said Bayley, pink with suppressed mirth. "It was all my fault. I must tell old Verschoyle this. I've surprised his plan out of the mouths of babes and sucklings." "What plan?" "Old Vee has taken the battalion up to the top of the common, and he told me he meant to charge down through the kids, but they're on to him already.
We might send Sally's brother, eh, Madge?" hurriedly quitting the room. Meredith remained with the ladies in the oriel window, whilst the rough-looking maid-servant awkwardly cleared the dinner table, assisted now and again by a smiling word from her young mistress. "You have a good view from here, Mrs. Verschoyle." "It is good to me, Mr. Meredith.
"'To your tents, O Israel! The Hebrew Schools stop the Mounted Troops. Pij, were you scuppered by Jewboys?" "'Umpires Decide all Four Guns Lost," Bayley went on. "By Jove, there'll have to be an inquiry into this regrettable incident, Vee!" "I'll never try to amuse the kids again," said the baited Verschoyle. "Children and newspapers are low things.... And I was hit on the nose by a wad, too!
"It's the offensive-defensive," said Verschoyle, "that they talk so much about. We learned it all from the Continent bless 'em! They insisted on it so." "No, we learned it from the Fleet," said Devine. "The Mediterranean Fleet landed ten thousand marines and sailors, with guns, in twenty minutes once at manoeuvres. That was long ago.
"I knew Verschoyle had a very good sister." "Allan, I do not think he suspects. Ought I not to tell him the truth?" "Not yet. Since the impression has worked such good effects, as well let him remain under it for a while. Time enough to knock down the scaffolding when the building is completed eh, darling?" Illustrated Interviews.
"I don't quite understand about this sea-time business," I said. "Is the Fleet open to take any regiment aboard?" "Rather. The I.G. must, the Line can, the Militia may, and the Volunteers do put in sea-time. The Coast Volunteers began it, and the fashion is spreading inland. Under certain circumstances, as Verschoyle told you, a Volunteer or Militia regiment can vote whether it 'heefs' wet or dry.
An hour passed quickly away. It was only the uneasy glances the young girl was beginning to cast towards the door which reminded him that Verschoyle had left them so long. When he re-entered the room, Meredith noticed that the sister's eyes turned anxiously towards him. "I made sure about your bag by seeing after it myself, Meredith," he began.
I was directed at the railway station, but do not feel sure that " "Whom do you want to see there?" she put in abruptly almost ungraciously. Nor was the tone assumed; this was not the girl to affect the brusquerie of unconventionality any more than the suavity of conventionality it was rather that of one in deep anxiety, and unaccustomed to veil her thoughts. "Mr. Verschoyle," he replied.
Pemberton noted how much less, among its curiosities, Lord Dorrington carried himself as a man of the world; wondering too whether, for such services, his companions took a fee from him. The autumn at any rate waned, the Dorringtons departed, and Lord Verschoyle, the eldest son, had proposed neither for Amy nor for Paula.
Frank to effusiveness in some directions, Verschoyle could be reticent enough in others, and rarely alluded to his family. That he was an only son, and, at his father's death, had inherited but the wreck of a once large property, Allan knew. He had also heard that the widowed mother was still living.
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