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"It's no better than I live in myself," he added. He whistled at the dismal livingroom and raised his eyebrows at the kitchen. Before I could mutter an introduction, Miss Francis growled without turning around, "If youve come about the icebox " "Zounds!" exclaimed Gootes. "A female Linnaeus. Shades of Dorothy Dix!"
Let's take in as much as youve done to the chief and either he'll be so impressed he'll put a stenographer to transcribing the rest or else " "Or else?" I prompted. "Or else he won't. Come on." Mr Le ffaçasé had apparently not stirred since last we were in his office. He opened his eyes, thumbed a pinch of snuff and asked Gootes, "Where the bloody hell is that stuff on the grass?"
If you want to talk about it, better not change the subject when I mention it." "You have taken offence needlessly. I changed the subject inadvertently." "Hm! Well, has she come back with you?" "No." "Do you mean that youve thrown her over?" "I have said nothing of the kind. As a matter of fact, she has thrown me over." "Thats very strange. You are not going to marry her then, I suppose?"
Indignity and defeat were symbolized by its overrunning; it was an arrogant defiance, an outrageous challenge offered to every man happening by. But the grass was not satisfied with this irreverence: it was already making demands on curbing and gutter. "Junior, youve got a story now. W R fired three copyboys and a proofreader he was so mad at himself. Here."
"To get back to the business of making plans, General," I urged gently. "Not one of those people getting worried about the Grass?" "Not worried. Just trying to look ahead. I can't afford to be caught napping." "Well, well," he said, "can't pull another South American this time." "No, no and besides, I'm not concerned with money." "Now, Albert, don't tell me youve finally got enough."
I'll tell you what youve done. Why did you send Conolly, of all men in the world, to tell me that I was in disgrace here?" "There was no one else, Marmaduke." "Well, suppose there wasn't! Suppose there had been no one else alive on the earth except you, and I, and he, and Constance, and Su and Constance! how could you have offered him such a job?" "Why not? Was there any special reason "
Steal her brainchild, negate all my efforts to make her independent and cheat me of the reward of my spadework. You wouldnt think of her as a frail credulous woman, easily taken in by the first smooth talker, but a woman is a woman afterall. "Look, Miss Francis," I argued, "youve got a big thing here, a great thing. The possibilities are practically unlimited.
But the hardiest Grasmere wrestler, stooping under the hood of a hansom, could not resist a vigorous pull at his coat tails; and Marmaduke was presently back in his seat again, with Susanna clinging to him and half sobbing: "Oh, Bob, youve killed me. How could you?" Then, with a suspiciously sudden recovery of energy, she screamed "Bijou Theatre.
"... Station KPAR, The Voice of Edendale, reaching you from a portable transmitter located in the street in front of what was formerly the residence of Mr and Mrs Dinkman. I guess youve all heard the story of how their lawn was allegedly sprinkled with some chemical which made the grass run wild. I don't know anything about that, but I want to tell you this grass is certainly running wild.
"Look at what youve done!" she cried, holding out the bracelet in her left hand and shewing a scrape which had drawn blood on her right wrist. "For two pins I'd knock your head off!" Marmaduke, quite out of countenance, and yet sullenly very angry, vacillated for a moment between his conflicting impulses to knock her down and to fly to the utmost ends of the earth.
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