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And what I said about Gladys was childish; I am not jealous of her, Captain Selwyn. Don't think me silly or perverse or sentimental, will you?" "No, I won't." She smiled at him with a trifle less courage a trifle more self-consciousness: "And and as for what I called you " "You mean when you called me by my first name, and I teased you?" "Y-es.
"Is he a better kind of a man than you thought him at first?" "Y-es. He has it in him to be better, I mean. . . . Yes, he is a better man than I thought him once." "And you like him " "Yes, I do. Colonel Arran." "Admire him?" She flushed up. "How do you mean?" "His qualities?" "Oh. . . . Yes, he has qualities." "Admirable?" "He is exceedingly intelligent." "Intellectual?" "I don't exactly know.
"Y-es!" said Lilias; and her face clouded once more. "He wants to come on the twentieth; and it is so awkward, for the Duckworths want me to go to them for that very week. They are having a tennis party, and their first day on the river, and several teas and dinners. It would be such a delightful week! I thought, perhaps, Ned might put off his visit until June.
"Is it agreeable?" "Y-es." And, flushing: "But I did not mistake you, Louis; and there is no reason not to come, even if I am alone." He laughed, lighted a cigarette, and stroked the kitten. "It's an amusing experiment, anyway," he said. "Have you never tried it before?" "Oh, yes, several times." "Were the several times successes?" "Not one!" he said, laughing.
"Y-es," admitted Jack, in that grudging, depreciatory tone of voice which, for some inexplicable reason, so many Englishmen use when speaking of their own property; "she is not bad, for her size. But a knot or two more would be welcome, just now; for we are late in starting, and we shall have our work cut out to make Mulata Bay before dark.
Of course they'll both come here in fact, their luggage is upstairs now Boots takes the blue room and Phil his old quarters, . . . But don't you think it is perfectly sweet of Boots? And isn't it good to have Philip back again?" "Y-es," said Eileen faintly. Lying there, the deep azure of her eyes starred with tears, a new tremor altered her mouth, and the tight-curled upper lip quivered.
She looked round the parlour, which was at once bigger and better furnished than the joint apartment in Laburnum Crescent, and seized upon an opportunity of changing the subject. "You have a very nice room." Sophie Blake looked round with an air half proud, half guilty. "Y-es. Too nice. I've no business to spend so much, but I simply can't stand those dreadful cheap houses.
Cowering on his cot the Judge watched the big shape join the other at the safe. How long it remained there, he did not know. A step sounded in the silence that reigned outside a third shape loomed in the doorway. "Judge Lindman!" called a voice. "Y-es?" quavered the Judge, aware that the big shape in the room was now close to him, menacing him. "Your door's open! Where's Ed?
"Y-es," assented Don Ramon doubtfully; "that is of course all right, so far as it goes. But the chances are that Alvaros' next move will be to procure the confiscation of Don Hermoso's property, and secure its possession to himself. Now, just let us consider that point for a moment. Should that happen, what will poor Don Hermoso do?" "I know what I should do in such a case," said Jack.
She went on writing them mechanically, but her thoughts began to busy themselves otherwise. "Drusilla, do you remember Jack Berrington?" The question slipped out before she saw its significance. She might not have perceived it so quickly even then had it not been for the second of hesitation before Drusilla answered and the quaver in her voice when she did. "Y-es."
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