The Story of the Gadsbys by Rudyard Kipling
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pulling your leg. Not GANDY!
BLAYNE. (Humming.) "Yea, verily, verily, verily! Verily, verily, I say unto thee." Theodore, the gift o' God! Our Phillup! It's been given out up above. MACKESY. (Barrister-at-Law.) Huh! Women will give out anything. What does accused say? BLAYNE. Markyn told me that he congratulated him warily-one hand held out, t'other ready to guard. Gandy turned pink and said it was so. CURTISS. Poor old Caddy! They all do it. Who's she? Let's hear the details. BLAYNE. She's a girl-daughter of a Colonel Somebody. DOONE. Simla's stiff with Colonels' daughters. Be more explicit. BLAYNE. Wait a shake. What was her name? Thresomething. Three- CURTISS. Stars, perhaps. Caddy knows that brand. BLAYNE. Threegan-Minnie Threegan. MACKESY. Threegan Isn't she a little bit of a girl with red hair? BLAYNE. 'Bout that-from what from what Markyn said. |
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