Fast and Loose
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XXIII. The
old fool’s been working on you through your sister to keep off the stage. It was painted in the early seventeenth century
by a minor artist named DuPre. The
wish was vain: and, endeavouring to banish every earthly thought, he addressed
himself deeply and sincerely to prayer. He felt like a boy again, the taste for adventures was keen upon his palate, the
whole undiscovered world of rhythmical things, of love and poetry and passion
seemed again to him a real and actual place, and he himself an adventurer upon
the threshold. "They imagine their work is done. Something, I'm convinced, has
happened to the boys. In addition to his customary arms,
Jonathan carried a bludgeon with a large heavy knob, suspended from his wrist
by a loop; a favourite weapon, which he always took with him on dangerous
expeditions, and which, if any information had been requisite, would have told
Sheppard that the present was one of them. ” She went on, with a desperate attempt to be
easy and colloquial:
“You see, we were rather good friends, I thought, and now perhaps it will be
difficult for us to get back to the old friendly footing.
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