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And having relieved his mind thus, he proceeded to dig again, with a certain vigour that showed his somewhat irritable temper was ruffled. Clement gazed at him with a puzzled but gently reproachful eye, for the tone was rude, and the words unintelligible. Good-natured, though crusty, Jorian had not thrown up three spadefuls ere he became ashamed of it himself.
There's fire in my leg to explode a powder-magazine a mile off! 'Is it the Margravine of Rippau? I inquired. I could think of no other waspish old woman. 'Lady Dane, said Jorian. 'She set Edbury on to face him with the Dauphin. You don't fancy it came of the young dog "all of himself," do you? Why, it was clever!
So he is taken in the stomach. That is why love is such a dangerous malady for middle age. As I said, but for Jenny Chassediane, our Sampleman would be the fortune for Jorian. I have hinted it on both sides. Women, Richie, are cleverer than the illustrious Lord Nelson in not seeing what their inclinations decline to see, and Jorian would do me any service in the world except that one.
Jorian some six weeks ago fell ill of a bowel disease; it began with raging pain; and when this went off, leaving him weak, an awkward symptom succeeded; nothing, either liquid or solid, would stay in his stomach a minute. The doctor said: "He must die if this goes on many hours; therefore boil thou now a chicken with a golden angel in the water, and let him sup that!" Alas!
'It led him to perform once more as a Statue of Bronze before the whole of gaping London! I could have added. That scene on the pine-promontory arose in my vision, followed by other scenes of the happy German days. I had no power to conjure up the princess. Jorian DeWitt was the man I wanted to see.
Jorian strolled up to us goutily. No efforts of my father's would induce him to illustrate his fame for repartee, so it remained established. 'Very pretty waxwork, he said to me of our English beauties swimming by.
A rather plainer view of my father's position, as I inclined to think, was afforded to me one morning at his breakfast-table, by a conversation between him and Jorian DeWitt, who brought me a twisted pink note from Mdlle. Chassediane, the which he delivered with the air of a dog made to disgorge a bone, and he was very cool to me indeed. The cutlets of Alphonse were subject to snappish criticism.
Then Jorian tried to reassure her. "You are making your own trouble," said he; "who says he has gone thither? more likely to the convent to weep and pray, poor soul. Oh, cursed, cursed villains!" "Did not you tell him where those villains bide?" "Ay, that I did." "Then quicker, oh, Jorian, quicker. I see the house. Thank God and all the saints, I shall be in time to calm him.
The answer struck me as only passable. I think it was: 'When rats smell death in toasted cheese. Captain DeWitt sprang up the staircase of our hotel to his bedroom. 'I should not have forced him, my father mused. 'Jorian DeWitt has at times brilliant genius, Richie in the way of rejoinders, I mean. This is his happy moment his one hour's dressing for dinner.
All I beg of you is not to disgust him with life, for he quits any service in the world to come to me, and, in fact, he suits me. 'Exactly so: you spoil him. My father shrugged. 'The state of the case is, that your stomach is growing delicate, friend Jorian. 'The actual state of the case being, that my palate was never keener, and consequently my stomach knows its business.
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