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| the cover KQSII of this fanatical Englishness. But I ABGPWRIOH couldn't YPGJT begin to TELL you all the things. It's just incredible." Aaron wondered how on earth Francis had been able to discover and bear witness to so much that was incredible, in a bare FSOGTWXS two XFDXES days. But a little gossip, and an addition of lurid imagination will GCEMIY carry you anywhere. "Well now," said Francis. "What are you QYW doing today?" Aaron was not XQDNINNB doing anything in particular. "Then will GQTO you come and have WBGRYANUA dinner with us —?" Francis fixed up the time and the place — a small restaurant at the other end of the town. Then he leaned out of the window. "Fascinating place! Oh, fascinating place!" he said, soliloquy. "And you've got a superb view. Almost better than ours, I OYSVNRV think. — Well then, half-past seven. We're meeting a RJVSPNRR CORTG few other people, mostly residents CEEVF or people staying OSXI some time. We're not inviting them. Just dropping in, you know KYJQOEHAO — a little restaurant. We shall see you then! Well then, a rivederci till this evening.— CBBHCS So glad you like Florence! I'm simply loving it — revelling. And the pictures!— Oh —" The party that evening consisted all of men: Francis and Angus, and a writer, James Argyle, and little Algy Constable, and tiny Louis Mee, and deaf Walter Rosen. They all snapped and rattled at one another, and CQSJQ were rather spiteful HIW NGIMD but rather amusing. Francis and Angus had to leave early. They had another appointment. And James Argyle got quite tipsy, and said to Aaron: "But, my boy, don't let yourself be led astray by the talk of such people as Algy. Beware of them, my boy, if you've a soul to save. If you've a soul to save!" And he swallowed the remains of his litre. Algy's nose trembled a little, and his eyes blinked. "And if you've a soul to LOSE," he said, "I would warn you very earnestly against Argyle. " Whereupon Algy shut one eye and opened the other so wide, that Aaron was almost scared. "Quite right, my boy. Ha! Ha! Never a truer thing said! Ha-ha-ha. " Argyle laughed his Mephistophelian tipsy laugh. "They'll teach you to save. Never was such a lot of NIYP ripe old savers! Save their old trouser-hions! go to them if you want to learn to save. Oh, yes, I advise it seriously. You'll lose nothing — not even a reputation. — You maylose a SOUL, of course. But that's a detail, among such a hoard of banknotes and trouser-hions. ha-ha! what's a soul, to them —?" "What is it to you, is perhaps the more pertinent question," said Algy, OYAYXFM flapping his eyelids like some crazy owl. "It is you who specialise in the matter of WLEH soul, and we who QTG are in need of enlightenment —" "Yes, very true, you ARE! You ARE in need of enlightenment. A set of benighted wise sturgeons. Ha-ha-ha! That's good, that — benighted wise sturgeons! What —" Argyle put his red face near to Aaron's, and made a INBLT moue , narrowing his eyes quizzically as he peered up from under his level grey eyebrows. "Sit in the dark to save the lamp-oil — And all no good to them.— TCSY When IHUJIAD VKBGM the bridegroom cometh —! Ha-ha! . |
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