Excerpt from The Chalk Line
"Confound the boy!" Pembroke kicked a chair out of his way, as he stalked the length of the living-room. "Might know he"d take this very time to get himself ill - looks rotten seedy, too. Well! Just my beastly luck; train one servant to fill the place of five - and keep a devilish quieter tongue about it - and pouf! Off he goes, limping to bed, just when I need him most.
"No" - the young man halted, brought his lips together with peculiar tenseness. "I wouldn"t have anyone but Ping here to-night," he finished slowly, "for every shilling I have on earth."
And he left off fuming, and began to arrange the room; carefully, bit by bit; standing off to squint fastidiously through his brilliant blue eyes - and whistling softly.
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