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The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown |
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"I think," said Major Brown, with an increase in the dark glow of his face, "that this letter was written by you." And with a loud clap he struck open the letter on the desk with his clenched fist. The man called Northover looked at it with unaffected interest and merely nodded. "Well, sir," said the Major, breathing hard, "what about that?" "What about it, precisely," said the man with the moustache. "I am Major Brown," said that gentleman sternly. Northover bowed. "Pleased to meet you, sir. What have you to say to me?" "Say!" cried the Major, loosing a sudden tempest; "why, I want this confounded thing settled. I want--" "Certainly, sir," said Northover, jumping up with a slight elevation of the eyebrows. "Will you take a chair for a moment." And he pressed an electric bell just above him, which thrilled and tinkled in a room beyond. The Major put his hand on the back of the chair offered him, but stood chafing and beating the floor with his polished boot. The next moment an inner glass door was opened, and a fair, weedy, young man, in a frock-coat, entered from within. "Mr Hopson," said Northover, "this is Major Brown. Will you please finish that thing for him I gave you this morning and bring it in?" "Yes, sir," said Mr Hopson, and vanished like lightning. "You will excuse me, gentlemen," said the egregious Northover, with his radiant smile, "if I continue to work until Mr Hopson is ready. I have some books that must be cleared up before I get away on my holiday tomorrow. And we all like a whiff of the country, don't we? Ha! ha!" |
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