“I want to be your friend,” he said. "And will swear to it?"
"I will. Things now began to wear so serious a aspect that a messenger was secretly
despatched to the Savoy for troops, and in half an hour a regiment of the guards
arrived, who by dint of great exertion succeeded in partially dispersing the
tumultuous assemblage. ‘Would you care for some refreshment? A glass of wine, perhaps?’
‘Nothing, merci, I do not remain,’ she answered, although she did not rise. He did not speak for a moment. “You see, her sister is married to
Ferringhall, isn’t she? and she herself must be drawing no end of a good screw
here. "If I could
work as fast as you, I might afford to be as idle. Wood, carving for his friends, and pledging the
carpenter, he had his hands full. Bravo!—the
best cly-faker of 'em all couldn't have done it better. These dinners,
from their lavish display of ambiguous hors d’oeuvre to their skimpy ices in
dishes of frilled paper, with their Chianti flasks and Parmesan dishes and their
polyglot waiters and polyglot clientele, were very funny and bright; and she
really liked Ramage, and valued his help and advice. Oh! you haven't got the key—then I must have it, I
suppose. “But you’re wrong. It is a lovely little appendage to
the mother who smiles over it, and it does things quaintly like her, gestures with
her very gestures. Sometimes a whole morning would pass without
Spurlock uttering a word beyond the request for a drink of water. During all their long comradeship he had
never so much as ventured to hold her fingers.
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