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He went out of the door, which was slammed to and locked, and Sir Henry Norland said to himself: "I like the lad, and it goes against me to make him break faith; but it must be done. My cause is a greater one than his. Once on our side, he could be of immense service. He will have to be won over somehow, poor fellow. Let's see what a day or two's caging will do."
Then her attention was suddenly drawn to her cousin. "How pale you look, Jacob," she said, approaching him. "Won't you have something some wine?" Delafield refused, declaring that all he wanted was an hour or two's sleep. "I go back to Paris to-morrow," he said, as he prepared to take his leave. "Will you be here to-night if I look in?" "Alack! we go to Scotland to-night!
Perhaps it was just as well that there was no more; in their condition a moderately full meal even would have proved injurious to them if administered without great caution; but while there was not sufficient to provoke hurtful results there was just enough to put new life into them, and to temporarily endow them with vigour and strength enough for an hour or two's toil at the oars.
Weatherley came over and shook hands with her. "Pretty place, this, Miss Lalonde, isn't it?" he remarked. "It's a real nice change for business men like Mr. Chetwode and myself to get down here for an hour or two's quiet." "It is wonderfully beautiful," she answered. "It is so long since I was out of London that perhaps I appreciate it more, even, than either of you."
With the aid of my careful measurements, I do in one day what it would cost me a week or two's work to accomplish without, and I am then able to give my exclusive attention to the modeling." He did not regularly devote himself to his art, however, but remained in the employment of the organ and clock maker for some time longer, giving his leisure hours to constant practice.
"But what does this mean?" "Only a minute or two's halt before they make a fiercer attack," I said. "No 'tain't," said Tom, who had stolen up unobserved; "they're a-going to set us alight, and I've come to tell you." "Nonsense!" exclaimed my uncle. "They'll never burn the place till they have searched and plundered it." "I quite think with you, Uncle," I said.
Tell him that you've engaged me, or, better still, write a note to the Scotland Yard authorities, and let me have it, to send or not as I think best, after I have turned the thing over in my mind. I shall take one good look round this office, and then run back to my rooms for an hour or two's hard consideration of whatever I may see.
Sorry we were too late for the mackerel, but we had some grand sport, all the same. You'll have a day or two's rest ashore now." "Aye, aye, sir!" Dumble replied. "We got in just in time. There's something more than a squall coming up nor'ards." Sir Henry listened for a moment. The French windows shook, the rain beat against the panes, and a dull booming of wind was clearly audible from outside.
The twenty maharees have joined the nuptial festivities this morning. A number of women are squatting in a group on the ground, and the men mounted on their camels are riding round and round them, sometimes in single file, and at other times in two's and two's. Whilst this is going on, another mounted party gallops up one by one to the group from a short distance.
In all that time I never knew what sickness was, unless I may call by that same name some slight indispositions of a day or two's continuance; the regular life I had led, as I have already taken notice, for so many years, not having permitted any superfluous or bad humours to breed in me; or if they did, to acquire such strength and malignity, a they generally acquire in the superannuated bodies of those, who live without rule.
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