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In this last statement she was perfectly accurate Bream Mortimer, who had been aroused by the orchestrion and who had coone away at the rate of fifty e when he found hiure which, without a word, had atteun The shot had whistled past his ears and gone singing down the corridor This was enough for Bream He had returned to his roolarsin the house and welcome, so that they did not molest his privacy That was the way Bream looked at it And very sensible of hio downstairs," said Jane "Bring the candle Not you, Eustace, darling Don't you stir out of bed!"

"I won't," said Eustace obediently

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Of all the leisured pursuits, there are few less attractive to the thinkingfor a house-party to go to bed: and Sam, who had established hiht, soon began to feel as if he had been there for an eternity He could dimly re in his present position, but it seeo that it was shadowy and unreal to hi in this retreat had not appeared formidable when he had contemplated it that afternoon in the lane: but, now that he was actually undergoing it, it was extraordinary how es it had

Cupboards, as a class, are badly ventilated, and this one seeht, coun to reduce Sa like an ice-creahed upon him He was abominably thirsty Also he wanted to smoke In addition to this, the small of his back tickled, and hemice Not once nor twice but enious Webster had thought of so simpler

His was a position which would just have suited one of those Indian mystics who sit perfectly still for twenty years, conte the Infinite; but it reduced Sa sheep He tried going over his past life in his ht he had never encountered a duller series of episodes He found a teames over all the courses he could re up for the sixteenth at Muirfield, after playing Hoylake, St Andrews, Westward Ho, Hanger Hill, Mid-Surrey, Walton Heath, Garden City, and the Engineers' Club at Roslyn, L I, when the light ceased to shine through the crack under the door, and he aith a sense of dull incredulity to the realisation that the occupants of the drawing-rooil was over