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Is he a musician, do you think? Do you ever have music on these evenings?" "Rather! Sometimes the mater hires a big swell, sometimes she lets loose the amateurs. She knows lots of amateurs, y'know. People who are trying to be big-wigs, and want the chance to show off. The mater encourages them. Great mistake if you ask me, but you needn't listen if you don't want.
"Aw, Miss Winship, really, y'know, you have no rivals," said my partner. I hadn't supposed him clever enough to guess what I was thinking. "Oh, yes I have one," I said; "isn't there somewhere here a real live Lord?" But just then we joined Meg, and it was she who pointed out to me "The Earl of Strathay the Twelfth Earl of Strathay," in a whisper of comical respect and deference.
Photographs all over the place. Danced at the Gaiety, y'know." "I'm sure I have heard of you," said Mrs. Handsomebody. "Well, the Duke and I ran into each other at a dog show last week, and he was so struck with me, he asked to be introduced, and has asked us all to visit him at Falden Castle. It looks hopeful, don't it?" "Indeed, yes. But we shall be very sorry to lose you.
"It makes it doubly worth while, to win out and have you all so glad!" he said. "So you've taken him into the firm, eh?" Duncan inquired of Bartlett. The blue eyes widened stonily. "The governor has. I'm not in the business, y'know. Never had the slightest turn for it, what?" Willy set aside his glass. "I say, I must be moving. No, I cawn't stop, Kellogg, really.
"What! you've met her before?" demanded Blake. "Then she hasn't told you?" replied his friend. "Lady Bayrose was one of my old friends, y'know. Met 'em aboard ship sailed on the same steamer, after my run home." "You did?" muttered Blake, in blank astonishment. "You know her?" "You must have heard me sing out to her from the boat.
Vievie took second place." "My word! How am I to answer that? Really, it's quite impossible to tell. You piqued my interest from the very first." "But did you still lo like Vievie when you proposed to her?" "Er yes quite true. That was the day after our arrival from New York, y'know." "Of course. But I wished to make doubly sure that you were sincere with her.
"I was wondering if you had a line on that," Despard said, doubtfully. "Y'know that woman you was staying with up on Island Ten Bar? Well, we got her man in here full's a fish. Lookin' for his woman, an' he's no good. Fell off the cabin, hit a spark in the back of the head when the water sucked when that steamboat went by this morning.
Four faces regarded him with impassive dislike. The bandaged ones were prettier than the ones that weren't. "That tommy gun business," explained Fitzgerald, "is a federal affair. It's against Fed law to carry 'em around loaded. And your friend Big Jake hasn't been leavin' presents on the White House steps. Y'know, you guys could be in trouble!"
The day brightens. Gadsby, there's a fair chance a dashed fair chance! The flicker, y'know. The sweat, y'know! I saw how it would be. The punkah, y'know. Deuced clever woman that Ayah of yours. Stopped the punkah just at the right time. A dashed good chance! No you don't go in. We'll pull her through yet I promise on my reputation under Providence. Send a man with this note to Bingle.
I had to sign a slip of blue paper when he turned up, acknowledging receipt of his body and all that, and I'm responsible, y'know, that he doesn't get away. Queer thing, though, looking after a Johnnie old enough to be your grandfather isn't it? Come to the Fort one of these days and see him? For reasons which will appear, I never went to the Fort while Khem Singh was then within its walls.
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