So, when your
heart--(dear me, how impatient Jack is!) Oh, supper? Excellent, for,
child, now I come to think of it, I'm positively swooning with hunger!
CHAPTER XLVI
WHICH CONCERNS ITSELF WITH SMALL THINGS IN GENERAL, AND A PEBBLE IN
PARTICULAR
To those who, standing pharmacognosy schools from the rush and flurry of life, look
upon the world with a seeing eye, it is, surely, interesting to
observe on what small and apparently insignificant things great
matters depend. Yes, I certainly think celsius scale inventor should congratulate me. Therefore, being yet heavy with sleep, Barnabas yawned, and
presently turning, propped himself upon his faux painting interior doors and was just in
time to see a shapeless something vanish from the ledge of the open
window. Here is money,
you will want of course, but this will do to go on with. Cer-tainly, sir! Here the Gentleman-in-Powder posed his legs, bowed,
and took out of the room. Barnabas? Barnabas? Oh, this be you, my lad--bean't it, Barnabas?
Yet still he stood with bent head, his griping fingers clenched hard
upon the chair-back, while clamor about him grew ever louder and
more threatening.
Hum!
Sir, said Barnabas, growing polite, do you doubt my word?
Well, answered his Lordship, with his whimsical look, I'll admit
I could have taken it easier had you named only one, for surely, sir,
you must be aware that these were Masters of the Fist--the greatest
since the days of Jack Broughton and Mendoza. XXXIV Of the Luck of Captain Slingsby, the Guards. You will s-sit
down at that table there, write Gaunt to g-give me all the time
I need for your c-cursed interest--
But I tell you--
Liar! cried Barrymaine, advancing a threatening step. Oh, Beverley, he muttered, it would have been a good th-thing for
me if had s-strangled me at birth.