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But Geoffrey felt that it was no business of his; and that Reggie and Yaé being what they were, it would be useless hypocrisy for him to censure their pleasures. Meanwhile, Asako was writing to him, bewailing her loneliness. So one morning at breakfast he announced that he must be getting back to Tokyo. A cloud passed over Yaé's face.
Besides, the woman was no better than a cocotte; and Reggie's friendship was at stake. "No," he said huskily; "that is not true. I was quietly sleeping here and she came up to me. She is man-mad." The tangled heap at Reggie's feet leaped up, her green eyes blazing. "Liar!" she cried. "Reggie, do you believe him? The hypocrite, the goody-goody, the white slave man, the pimp!"
"Though I don't understand them, I won't quarrel with your sentiments so long as you suffer from them. When that fails, I'll find another opportunity for this. Good night." I stepped to the door. "Reggie!" I shut the door on his cry: crossed the corridor, and climbing out through the window, let myself drop into the lane. As my feet touched the snow a revolver-shot rang out in the room behind me.
Good dog, Laddie, lie down, for Laddie's manifestations of delight were taking the form of a loud baying which drowned all attempts at conversation. 'Trust, Laddie! said Tricksy in her little soft voice; but Laddie took no notice. 'Laddie, trust! said Reggie severely; and Laddie subsided at once, surprised that his attentions should be so little appreciated.
"Who'd have thought, a week ago, that I'd be sitting in this jolly old chair asking you to be my best man? Why, a week ago I didn't know you, and, if anybody had told me Alice Faraday was going to marry me, I'd have given one of those hollow, mirthless laughs." "Do you want me to be your best man?" "Absolutely, if you don't mind. You see," said Reggie confidentially, "it's like this.
The last time Jimmy had seen Jerry Mitchell had been two years before at the National Sporting Club in London, and, placing him at once, he braced himself, as a short while ago he had braced himself to confound immaculate Reggie. "Hello!" said the battered one. "Hello indeed!" said Jimmy courteously. "In what way can I brighten your life?" The grin faded from the other's face. He looked puzzled.
Then the first floor was caught. It burned more slowly. Kendal and I and the ambulance men ran forward with the stretchers. And Jimmy came through the doors carrying a wounded Frenchman. He went in again and came out with another Frenchman. He went in a third time and came out with Reggie Thesiger. He must have had to go further into the hall to find him, for it was a much longer business.
But though these bodies would like, as Reggie puts it, to make Government sit up, it is an elementary consideration in governing a country like India, which must be administered for the benefit of the people at large, that the counsels of those who resort to it for the sake of making money should be judiciously weighed and not allowed to overpower the rest.
Perhaps you'd care to come in and have a drink on your way?" "A ripe scheme," agreed Reggie Ten minutes in the grey car ate up the distance between the links and George's cottage.
And now," he continued, becoming sternly practical, "about the good old sequel and aftermath, so to speak, of this little binge of ours. What's to be done. You're a brainy sort of feller, Bevan, old man, and we look to you for suggestions. How would you set about breaking the news to mother?" "Write her a letter," said George. Reggie was profoundly impressed.
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