“The things involved in it are,” he answered gravely. ”
“But how?”
“I poured him out some port wine, and I said—let me see—oh, ‘You are going
to be a grandfather!’”
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“Really,” she said, with a hard little laugh, “you must regard me as a very goodnatured person. Her pat answer to all inquiries was,
“I let my sister Shari make me over,” while she kept from
staring at her own reflection in the shiny shoes past her
bare knees. He fell back upon the pillows with a little
moan, clutching the slim white fingers fiercely. The latter walked carelessly towards
the hatch, and leaning his back against the place whence the spike had been
removed, so as completely to hide it, continued smoking his pipe as coolly as if
nothing had happened. The militia offered little in the way of relief. As soon as dinner was over she went into the
kitchen and devoted herself to compiling a tray—not a tray merely of halfcooled dinner things, but a specially prepared “nice” tray, suitable for tempting
any one. Rows of roasted duck, brilliantly varnished; luscious vegetables, which
she had been warned against; baskets of melon seed and water-chestnuts; men
working in teak and blackwood; fan makers and jade cutters; eggs preserved in
what appeared to her as petrified muck; bird's nests and shark fins. E. ‘Then it must certainly be Eugénie. There
was no past, no future, only this exhilarating present. So I had to buy out his interest, and it pinched me
dreadfully to do it. Abruptly she got out of bed, smoothed her sheet
and straightened her pillow and lay down, and fell almost instantly asleep.
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