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Archie made no movement. There was a tense pause. The high-priest gave a little sigh, like one waking from a beautiful dream. "Twenty-three hundred," he said. "Once twenty-three. Twice twenty-three. Third, last, and final call, twenty-three. Sold at twenty-three hundred. I congratulate you, sir, on a genuine bargain!" Reggie van Tuyl had dozed off again.
His stick slipped and tumbled down on the landing with a clatter. We heard him prop it up again. Our eyes met. I'm afraid mine said: "What are you going to do now?" Then he came in and I saw the gallant Reggie take the shock of him. I don't suppose he had ever before met anything like Jevons I mean really met him, at close quarters in his life.
We must have an Einspänner is it not so? not that we are tired, but you said we had far to go." "Yes, an Einspänner for the ladies your amiable mother, Miss Nora, and my wife, and you, Reggie, will find a corner beside the driver.
Archie, leaning on the other side of the counter, inspected the bracelet searchingly, wishing that he knew more about these things; for he had rather a sort of idea that the merchant was scheming to do him in the eyeball. In a chair by his side, Reggie van Tuyl, half asleep as usual, yawned despondently. He had permitted Archie to lug him into this shop; and he wanted to buy something and go.
It was a relief that at that moment Bessie descended, her hair in order, a look of pleasant excitement on her plump face. No one need half-heartedly try to carry on a conversation with Reggie when once Bessie was present to monopolise him. And then Deleah and Franky, their cheeks rosy from exercise, appeared.
I could not exactly commend its sanitary " A voice calling him from the window broke the sentence. It was Reggie Wotherspoon. "Yes," said Oddington. "That you, Ralph? Oh, I see you. Say, come in here like a good chap, will you? I've run across a sort of an anarchist circular about Rodriguez. I want you to come up with me while I put it up to him." "All right," replied Oddington.
If she's sure he still cares, it's just the same to her where he is. He might as well stay on in London as go to South Africa. It won't help him any. The difference comes when she finds he has stopped caring. Why, look at Reggie. He tried that. He went away for ever so long, but he kept writing me from wherever he went, so that he was perfectly miserable and I went on enjoying myself.
It seemed as if her heart were clouded while her mind remained clear, for she saw Lord Reggie quite as he was, and yet she began to like him quite absurdly. Why she was attracted by him she could not conceive. Was it the swing of a Nature's pendulum?
"Because, if there's anything in the science of physiognomy, that gentleman is a decidedly bad lot." Celia turned away from the gate and walked slowly beside Reggie. "You jump at conclusions," she said. "You have only seen him for a moment or two, and at a distance."
There was an outburst of applause form the others at a particularly brilliant shot below. "By George!" cried Westcott, "she's got him. It's Hermia's vantage and forty-love. O Reggie! A love game, by Jiminy! Hermia, you've won me a cool hundred." The game was over and the players shook hands before the net, Hermia laughing gaily, Armistead's eyes full of honest adoration.
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