Excerpt: ...to the occasion. He was one of those men who are usually too slack to burthen their souls with a refreshing expletive. "What is the matter?" inquired Mr. Bodery gravely. "There is a man," explained Sidney hurriedly, "getting out of the train who is coming to stay with us. I had forgotten his existence. Don't look round!" Mr. Bodery was a Londoner. He did not look round. Nine out of ten country-bred people would have indulged in a stare. "Is this all your luggage?" continued Sidney abruptly. He certainly was ...
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Excerpt: ...to the occasion. He was one of those men who are usually too slack to burthen their souls with a refreshing expletive. "What is the matter?" inquired Mr. Bodery gravely. "There is a man," explained Sidney hurriedly, "getting out of the train who is coming to stay with us. I had forgotten his existence. Don't look round!" Mr. Bodery was a Londoner. He did not look round. Nine out of ten country-bred people would have indulged in a stare. "Is this all your luggage?" continued Sidney abruptly. He certainly was rising. "Yes." "Then come along. We'll bolt for it. He'll have to get a fly, and that means ten minutes' start if the porter is not officious and mulls things." They hurried out of the station and clambered into the dog-cart. Sidney gathered up the reins. "Hang it," he exclaimed. "What bad luck! There is a fly waiting. It is never there when you want it." Mr. Bodery looked between the shafts. "You need not be afraid of that fly," he said. "No-come up, you brute!" Mr. Bodery turned carelessly to put his bag in the back of the cart. "Let him have it," he exclaimed in a low voice. "Your friend sees you, but he does not know that you have seen him. He is pointing you out to the station-master." As he spoke the cart swung round the gate-post of the station yard, nearly throwing him out, and Sidney's right hand felt for the whip-socket. "There," he said, "we are safe. I think I can manage that fly." Mr. Bodery settled himself and drew the dust-cloth over his chubby knees. "Now," he said, "tell me all about Vellacott." Sidney did so. He gave a full and minute description of events previous to Christian Vellacott's disappearance, omitting nothing. The relation was somewhat disjointed, somewhat vague in parts, and occasionally incoherent. The narrator repeated himself-hesitated-blurted out some totally irrelevant fact, and finished up with a vague supposition (possessing a solid basis of truth) expressed in doubtful English. It suited Mr. Bodery...
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