" Here Ruth returned with the broth; and McClintock strode aft, convinced that he was going to have something far more interesting than books to read. " "So I find, Rowland," replied the other, in accents of deep disappointment, and at the same time relinquishing his grasp. "I wonder if you will understand what this kindness means to me? I am so terribly wise—and so wofully ignorant!" CHAPTER XII The doctor shifted his books and magazines to the crook of his elbow. “We have no airs and graces here, and my hat hangs from a peg in the passage. It is as if my lips had been sealed about them. He reached a silver cigar and cigarette box from the sideboard and put it before his father-in-law, and for a time the preliminaries of smoking occupied them both. “You know very well that she is selfish and pleasure-loving to the backbone. What was the fellow doing in this part of the town? Had not Lady Bicknacre said he was living at Paddington? The Frenchman, booted and neat in buckskin breeches and a plain frockcoat, a flat-brimmed hat on his head, paused a moment at an intersection with one of the roads leading north, apparently seeking a street sign. Incursions were often made upon its territories by the functionaries of the law; sometimes attended with success, but more frequently with discomfiture; and it rarely happened, unless by stratagem or bribery, that (in the language of the gentlemen of the short staff) an important caption could be effected. Indeed I am! I would make this country a collective monarchy, and all the girls and women in it should be the Queen. “Now,” he said, quietly, “it’s time we stopped this nonsense. She made me over.
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