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“But by that time your feelings will have changed.” Wally laughed. “Never!” “You’ll meet some other girl …” “I’ve met every girl in the world! None of them will do!” The lightness came back into Wally’s voice. “I’m sorry for the poor things, but they won’t do! Take ‘em away! There’s only one girl in the world for me—oh, confound it! why is it that one always thinks in songtitles! Well, there it is. I’m not going to bother you. We’re pals. And, as a pal, may I offer you my bankroll?” “No!” said Jill. She smiled up at him. “I believe you would give me your coat if I asked you for it!” Wally stopped. “Do you want it? Here you are!” “Wally, behave! There’s a policeman looking at you!” “Oh, well, if you won’t! It’s a good coat, all the same.” They turned the corner, and stopped before a brownstone house, with a long ladder of untidy steps running up to the front door. 304 “Is this where you live?” Wally asked. He looked at the gloomy place disapprovingly. “You do choose the most awful places!” “I don’t choose them. They’re thrust on me. Yes, this is where I live. If you want to know the exact room, it’s the third window up there over the front door. Well, good night.” “Good night,” said Wally. He paused. “Jill.” “Yes?” “I know it’s not worth mentioning, and it’s breaking our agreement to mention it, but you do understand, don’t you?” “Yes, Wally dear, I understand.” “I’m round the corner, you know, waiting! And, if you ever do change, all you’ve got to do is just to come to me and say ‘It’s all right!’ …” Jill laughed a little shakily. “That doesn’t sound very romantic!” “Not sound romantic! If you can think of any three words in the language that sound more romantic, let me have them! Well, never mind how they sound, just say them, and watch the result! But you must get to bed.
Good night.” “Good night, Wally.” She passed in through the dingy door. It closed behind her, and Wally stood for some moments staring at it with a gloomy repulsion. He thought he had never seen a dingier door. Then he started to walk back to his apartment. He walked very quickly, with clenched hands. He was wondering if after all there was not something to be said for the methods of the caveman when he went a-wooing. Twinges of conscience the caveman may have had when all was over, but at least he had established his right to look after the woman he loved. 305 CHAPTER NINETEEN 1. “They tell me … I am told … I am informed …. No, one moment, Miss Frisby.” Mrs Peagrim wrinkled her fair forehead. It has been truly said that there is no agony like the agony of literary composition, and Mrs. Peagrim was having rather a bad time getting the requisite snap and ginger into
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THE LITTLE WARRIOR By P. G. Wodehou
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THE LITTLE WARRIOR By P. G. Wodehou
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“You wouldn’t speak in that lig
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which makes heroes of its friends.
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Parker entered with the toast, and
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at the breakfast-table had melted s
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“Nothing!” said Ronny. “Absol
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“Charmed,” said Ronny affably.
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view of the performance, and closed
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into definite certainty of the wors
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“There must have been some mistak
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“Brrh! It’s cold!” she exclai
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“Hullo, Jill, old thing. Nobody h
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Derek she loved was a strong man, w
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sort of things that put her back up
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“No, I’m trying to be a little
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CHAPTER TWO 1. THE FRONT-DOOR close
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sauce-boat accidentally over that o
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It consoles the philosopher in this
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It had been empty at the rise of th
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“Yes. It broke Freddie all up, di
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it may be that life holds some happ
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the silent gallery. And, suddenly,
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sort,” said the man beside her.
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“Don’t tell me. Let me guess. I
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“Do you wish to stop and see the
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ound travellers, clattered past ove
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In the supper-room of the Savoy Hot
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little distrait for a moment or two
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agers are just like sheep. They kno
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“Given it up, eh? Daresay you’r
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ing to the lobby was crowded with c
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too gracious, possibly, but she had
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anxious! You were having supper you
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solitaire. Mix yourself a drink of
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“Good?” said Freddie. “It’s
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there is no greater achievement. Od
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window-sill. There was a ball of ye
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vertised docility of that other par
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Jill reached the scene of battle, a
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tler sex outside a clump on the hea
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cab to take him to the station, and
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know as well as I do that a suitabl
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down again at the writing-table. He
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“Major Selby hasn’t arrived yet
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Jill poured out a cup of tea for he
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cold tub,—a misleading impression
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ones’—which in those days was a
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“Good-bye, Mr Rooke.” Freddie a
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“But, my dear old thing,” said
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think. There are sixty-four ways of
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Jill smiled. “Of course I do. You
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Uncle Chris cleared his throat. “
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to do. She was able now to review t
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terrible, the criminal thing I have
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Her face was very white. There seem
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IN THE LIVES of each one of us, as
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groves of home-washed underclothing
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He had so much the air of having co
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for living in it. It presented itse
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could see him at the telephone, sua
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e sick at mid-day instead of after
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tion by walking nearly a mile witho
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Jill’s heart sank. She loved chil
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CHAPTER EIGHT 1. DOCTORS, laying do
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Underhill had handed her the mitten
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introduced to says something to you
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“But you haven’t got the story
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courses and a multitude of mixed wi
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your hospitality any longer. Perhap
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and two o’clock is the hour at wh
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heaven like a cliff. It even smelt
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2. Jill had read works of fiction i
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per. A momentary suggestion present
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“It was a little sudden. Still, h
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Ike’s office. Said he was the aut
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things stand, and I’ve got to fin
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occur to them. Messrs Goble and Coh
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“Zout!” said the Pimple King, a
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ISAAC GOBLE AND JACOB COHN PRESENT
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ence at present.” Jill was to lea
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time has come when the public is be
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CHAPTER ELEVEN 1. THE REHEARSALS of
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eral movement, and chairs and bench
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is nothing I enjoy more than a good
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A voice from the neighborhood of th
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He stared again at Jill. The inspec
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lar in a profession where the langu
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it. I swallowed the limousine whole
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toiseshell-rimmed spectacles. It wa
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have called cold feet. It was such
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CHAPTER TWELVE 1. Uncle Chris walke
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“It suggests …” “Precisely.
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She did not mean any harm, but she
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these dashed magazines, with their
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coats, and they sit smoking cigars
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actual harm.” They had come to th
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aphy. How many years ago had that b
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emotions. The human brain has train
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the burden of which they had parted
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“Most men would be.” “Most me
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me to death by appearing so unexpec
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in London that you went popping bac
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have kicked him, he now seemed cont
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Like a flash! Most remarkable thing
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More than ever did the adult Wally
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To all these outpourings Major Selb
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isking—any loose cash which I may
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ecause the stage was wide and deep
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“Why doesn’t he know the steps?
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2. The opportunity for a private co
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“It’s a shame that you had all
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thread? Poets have said so a great
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As a matter of fact, it was delicac
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Freddie. “The what-ho-something?
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Mr Goble scowled at the unconscious
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with Mr Goble as stage-director, an
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I cared for myself. The public will
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uncelebrated Wentworth Hill, who ha
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“Me?” said the young man. “Ye
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was the only man to do it. Freddie
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with in London, and she told him wh
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have been in the theatre for awhile
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and tired me out and didn’t give
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ack. You were a memory that seemed
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derful furniture, the most wonderfu
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