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Like's not Tim can let ye have the money, she says; 'his wife bein' an own cousin, right in the family, y'know. So I've brought the deeds, Sis, an' " "What!" cried Helen, starting up. "The deeds of the farm? Let me see!" She reached out a shaking hand for the papers. "I'll pay you back!" she cried. "Why didn't you come sooner? How much can you get? How much money?"
Suppose you come up- town with me and help me pick out a beast." "No," said Blake. "Less I see of that papa's boy the better I'll like him." "Oh, but as a fellow-engineer, y'know," minced Lord James. "You love him 'bout as much as I do." Lord James adjusted the pink carnation in his lapel, and casually remarked: "You'll be calling at the Leslies' this afternoon, I daresay." "No," said Blake.
"I am just a country mouse, and I've really counted on seeing one or two great people, Mr. Bellmer besides you, of course." "The Charity Ball is aw, y'know, Miss Winship, an institution," he explained, fairly strutting in his complacency at my deference; "and as an institution, not as a Society event, ye understand, it is patronized by the most prominent ladies in the city." "How good of them!"
Punctually on the stroke of eleven the swinging doors of the Angel were closed and the huge street lamps were extinguished. Dad's eye was glassy, but he remembered the lobster. "Whersh my lil' present?" he wailed. "Mush 'ave lil' present for the Duchess, y'know. 'Ow could I g'ome, d'ye think?"
"There, there!" says I. "Don't get bristle-spined over it. I wa'n't offerin' any deadly insult, and if it makes you feel as bad as all that I'll take it back." "I I'll have you dismissed!" he growls. "Can't do it, Bobby," says I. "I'm no reg'lar tip-chaser. I'm here incog. doing it for a lark, y'know. Back to your corner, now! There's a lady present."
Don't you never speak to me again a-crowdin' of me off my stand"; and once to the younger vendors of the less expensive journals, thus: "Oh, you boys! I'll make you regret of it a-snappin' up my customers under my very nose! Wait until ye're old!" To which the boys had answered: "All right, daddy; don't you have a fit. You'll be a deader soon enough without that, y'know!"
But he was either ill or else rendered uneasy over his business with Mr. Griffith," remarked Genevieve. "Of course, of course!" assented Lord James, bending over to brush a speck from his knee. "Quite a pity, indeed!" He straightened and turned to Mrs. Gantry, with a forced smile. "Er it's deuced stupid of me agreeing to dine, y'know deuced stupid. Must beg pardon for cutting it!
Well, it was better to be prepared and know the worst. "Bultitude says, just like a great awkward schoolboy, y'know, 'What's your name? How d'ye do? Have some hardbake, it's just done? Fancy finding a man in his position cooking toffee in the middle of the day, and offering it to a perfect stranger!" "Softening of the brain must be," said the other. "I fear so.
He vowed "eternal fidelity to that springtide of love" and ended by declaring that his sole wish was to "recommence that happy time if, indeed, happiness can recommence." "I say that out of politeness, y'know," he explained. "The moment it becomes laughable eh, what! I think she's felt it, she has!" He glowed with triumph.
Vivian he sent me off to Atlantic City, in New Jersey, and then to a hotel in the Adriondacts. I conv'lessed, ma'am, y'know?" "I see. Now you are going back to the Works, I suppose?" It was not a question easy to answer with delicacy, to answer and avoid all risk of hurting a lady's feelings.
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