2012年11月7日星期三

  --I'm not sure you aren't right

  "--I'm not sure you aren't right,chanel classic bags, Keggs.""Thank you, your lordship. I feel convinced of it.""I will speak to my father tonight.""Very good, your lordship. I am glad to have been of service.""Young blighted Albert," said Keggs crisply, shortly afterbreakfast on the following morning, "you're to take this note toMr. Bevan at the cottage down by Platt's farm, and you're todeliver it without playing any of your monkey-tricks, and you're towait for an answer, and you're to bring that answer back to me,too, and to Lord Marshmoreton. And I may tell you, to save you thetrouble of opening it with steam from the kitchen kettle, that I'ave already done so. It's an invitation to dine with us tonight.
  So now you know. Look slippy!"Albert capitulated. For the first time in his life he felt humble.
  He perceived how misguided he had been ever to suppose that hecould pit his pigmy wits against this smooth-faced worker ofwonders.
  "Crikey!" he ejaculated.
  It was all that he could say.
  "And there's one more thing, young feller me lad," added Keggsearnestly, "don't you ever grow up to be such a fat'ead as ourfriend Percy. Don't forget I warned you."
Chapter 23
Life is like some crazy machine that is always going either tooslow or too fast. From the cradle to the grave we alternate betweenthe Sargasso Sea and the rapids--forever either becalmed orstorm-tossed. It seemed to Maud, as she looked across thedinner-table in order to make sure for the twentieth time that itreally was George Bevan who sat opposite her, that, after months inwhich nothing whatever had happened, she was now living through aperiod when everything was happening at once. Life, from being abroken-down machine, had suddenly begun to race.
  To the orderly routine that stretched back to the time when she hadbeen hurried home in disgrace from Wales there had succeeded a madwhirl of events, to which the miracle of tonight had come as afitting climax. She had not begun to dress for dinner till somewhatlate, and had consequently entered the drawing-room just as Keggswas announcing that the meal was ready. She had received her firstshock when the love-sick Plummer, emerging from a mixed crowd ofrelatives and friends, had informed her that he was to take her in.
  She had not expected Plummer to be there, though he lived in theneighbourhood. Plummer, at their last meeting, had stated hisintention of going abroad for a bit to mend his bruised heart: andit was a little disconcerting to a sensitive girl to find hervictim popping up again like this. She did not know that, as far asPlummer was concerned, the whole affair was to be considered openedagain. To Plummer, analysing the girl's motives in refusing him,there had come the idea that there was Another, and that this othermust be Reggie Byng,jeremy scott adidas 2012. From the first he had always looked uponReggie as his worst rival. And now Reggie had bolted with theFaraday girl, leaving Maud in excellent condition, so it seemed toPlummer,chanel wallet, to console herself with a worthier man. Plummer knew allabout the Rebound and the part it plays in the affairs of theheart,fake uggs for sale. His own breach-of-promise case two years earlier had beenentirely due to the fact that the refusal of the youngest Devenishgirl to marry him had caused him to rebound into the dangeroussociety of the second girl from the O.P. end of the first row inthe "Summertime is Kissing-time" number in the Alhambra revue. Hehad come to the castle tonight gloomy, but not without hope.

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