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The Painful Fall of a Great Reputation |
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"This," he said, "is a beastly but amusing affair." "What is?" I asked, baldly enough. "This affair. Listen to me, my old friend. Lord and Lady Beaumont have just invited you and me to a grand dinner-party this very night, at which Mr Wimpole will be in all his glory. Well, there is nothing very extraordinary about that. The extraordinary thing is that we are not going." "Well, really," I said, "it is already six o'clock and I doubt if we could get home and dress. I see nothing extraordinary in the fact that we are not going." "Don't you?" said Grant. "I'll bet you'll see something extraordinary in what we're doing instead." I looked at him blankly. "Doing instead?" I asked. "What are we doing instead?" "Why," said he, "we are waiting for one or two hours outside this house on a winter evening. You must forgive me; it is all my vanity. It is only to show you that I am right. Can you, with the assistance of this cigar, wait until both Sir Walter Cholmondeliegh and the mystic Wimpole have left this house?" "Certainly," I said. "But I do not know which is likely to leave first. Have you any notion?" |
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