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"I see!" said Sa-conciliate"
"Yes, of course, that must have wounded her"
"Not half so much as he wounded me! He pinned me by the ankle the day before we--Wilhelmina and I, I mean--were to have been married It is soot home on the little beast with considerable juiciness and lifted hily
"You shouldn't have done that!" he said He extended his cuff and added the words "Vitally important" to what he had just written "It was probably that which decided her"
"Well, I hate dogs," said Eustace Hignett querulously "I re quite annoyed with me because I refused to step in and separate a couple of the brutes, absolute strangers toin the street I rehters noays, that life itself was in a sense a fight: but she wouldn't be reasonable about it She said that Sir Galahad would have done it like a shot I thought not We have no evidence whatsoever that Sir Galahad was ever called upon to do anything half as dangerous And, anyway, he wore ar well down over the ankles, and I illingly intervene in a hundred dog fights But in thin flannel trousers no!"
Saht He had never, of course, supposed that the girl was anything but perfect; but it was nice to find his high opinion of her corroborated by one who had no reason to exhibit her in a favourable light He understood her point of view and sympathised with it An idealist, how could she trust herself to Eustace Hignett? How could she be content with a craven who, instead of scouring the world in the quest for deeds of daring do, had fallen down so lanment? There was a specious attractiveness about poor old Eustace which irl's heart for a ti voice; but, as a partner for lifewell, he simply wouldn't do That was all there was to it He siirl like Wilhelmina Bennett required for a husband was somebody entirely differentsomebody, felt Samuel Marlowe, -point with these reflections, he went on deck to join the ante-luncheon promenade He saw Billie almost at once She had put on one of these nice sacky sport-coats which so enhance fe the deck with the breeze playing in her vivid hair like the fe Mr Bream Mortimer