Excerpt: ...exclaimed. "Of course all my money is on Jerningham, -though 'Moonraker' carries the odds, but I must have a hundred or two on Mr. Beverley for-friendship's sake." "Friendship!" exclaimed the Marquis, "oh, begad!" Here he took out his snuff-box, tapped it, and put it in his pocket again. "Yes, gentlemen," smiled the Duchess, "this is a friend of mine who-dropped in upon me, as it were, quite unexpectedly-over the wall, in fact." "Wall!" exclaimed Sir George. "The deuce you did, Beverley!" said the Marquis. As ...
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Excerpt: ...exclaimed. "Of course all my money is on Jerningham, -though 'Moonraker' carries the odds, but I must have a hundred or two on Mr. Beverley for-friendship's sake." "Friendship!" exclaimed the Marquis, "oh, begad!" Here he took out his snuff-box, tapped it, and put it in his pocket again. "Yes, gentlemen," smiled the Duchess, "this is a friend of mine who-dropped in upon me, as it were, quite unexpectedly-over the wall, in fact." "Wall!" exclaimed Sir George. "The deuce you did, Beverley!" said the Marquis. As for Major Piper, he hitched his dolman round, and merely said: "Haw!" "Yes," said Barnabas, glancing from one to the other, "I am a trespasser here, and, Sir George, I fear I damaged some of your flowers!" "Flowers!" repeated Sir George, staring from Barnabas to the Duchess and back again, "Oh!" "And now-pray let me introduce you," said the Duchess. "My friend Mr. Beverley-Sir George Annersley. Mr. Beverley-Major Piper." "A friend of her Grace is always welcome here, sir," said Sir George, extending a mottled hand. "Delighted!" smiled the Major, saluting him in turn. "Haw!" "But what in the world brings you here, Beverley?" inquired the Marquis. "I do," returned his great-aunt. "Many a man has climbed a wall on my account before to-day, Marquis, and remember I'm only just-seventy-one, and growing younger every hour, -now am I not, Major?" "Haw!-Precisely! Not a doubt, y' Grace. Soul and honor! Haw!" "Marquis-your arm, Mr. Beverley-yours! Now, Sir George, show us the way to the marquee; I'm dying for a dish of tea, I vow I am!" Thus, beneath the protecting wing of a Duchess was Barnabas given his first taste of Quality and Blood. Which last, though blue beyond all shadow of doubt, yet manifested itself in divers quite ordinary ways as, -in complexions of cream and roses; in skins sallow and wrinkled; in noses haughtily Roman or patricianly Greek, in noses mottled and unclassically uplifted; in black hair, white hair, ...
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