Part 59 (1/2)

The paragraph closed by fixing the nuptials to take place before the end of the Season

I looked at le with him The whole man was efflorescent

'Can't it be stopped?' I inified the iesticulations,frowns; various patterns of an absolute negative beating down opposition

'Things printed can never be stopped, Richie Our Jorian compares theo on for ever!--an admirable word of Jorian's And a word to you, Richie Will you swear to raph affords you no satisfaction? He cannot swear it!'my shoulder round, and he made me feel that it would have been a false oath if I had sworn it But I could have sworn, that I had rather ere at the bottom of the sea than that it should coain It was in print It looked like reality It was at least the realization ofcroith noI could do was to insist on our starting for Riversley immediately, to make sure of my own position 'Name your hour, Richie,' my father said confidently: and aited

A rather plainer view of my father's position, as I inclined to think, was afforded toat his breakfast-table, by a conversation between hiht me a twisted pink note from Mdlle Chassediane, the which he delivered with the air of a dog e a bone, and he was very cool to me indeed The cutlets of Alphonse were subject to snappish criticis?'

'He saw it inof yesterday,' replied e that he is one of the few that perform their daily duties with a tender conscience'

'This English climate has bedevilled the fellow! He peppers his dishes like ahiust him with life, for he quits any service in the world to come to me, and, in fact, he suits ed 'The state of the case is, that your sto delicate, friend Jorian'

'The actual state of the case being, that my palate was never keener, and consequently my stomach knows its business'

'You should have tried the cold turbot with oil and capers'

'Your s, in ed if I think he's equal to a bowl of porridge'

'Careht have confessed to the same!'

'With this difference,' cried Jorian in a heat, 'that he would never have allowed the thought of any of your barbarous messes to occur to a man at table Let me tell you, Roy, you astonish uilty of the bad taste of defending a bad dish on your own board'

'Then you will the more readily pardon me, Jorian'

'Oh, I pardon you,' Jorian sneered, tripped to the carpet by such ignoble reat loss'

My father assured him he would have a serious conversation with Alphonse, for who that Alphonse had not, to his knowledge, served as hospital cook anywhere, and was therefore quite possibly not sufficiently solicitous for appetites and digestions of invalids

Jorian threw back his head as though to discharge a spiteful sarcas must be done; your father must marry Notoriety is the season for a pick and choice of the wealthiest and the loveliest I refuse to act the part of warer; I refuse point blank It's not a personal feeling on my part; my advice is that of a disinterested friend, and I tell you candidly, Roy, set aside the absurd exhibition of ad, the alderman went like Summer, and left us the very picture of a fruity Autu on the tree of fond expectation for ever She'll drop'

'Catch her, Jorian; you are on guard'

'Upwards of three hundred thousand, if a penny, Roy Richmond! Who? I? I am not a fortune-hunter'

'Nor am I, friend Jorian'

'No, it 's because you're not thorough: you 'll fall between the stools'