"They're my own pet pair,"
Torpenhow
said.
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"Did you see anything you knew? "
"Only the Barralong outwards to Australia, and an Odessa grain-boat
loaded down by the head. It was a thick day, but the sea smelt good. "
"Wherefore put on one's best trousers to see the Barralong? " said
Torpenhow, pointing.
"Because I've nothing except these things and my painting duds. Besides,
I wanted to do honour to the sea. "
"Did She make you feel restless? " asked the Nilghai, keenly.
"Crazy. Don't speak of it. I'm sorry I went. "
Torpenhow and the Nilghai exchanged a look as Dick, stooping, busied
himself among the former's boots and trees.
"These will do," he said at last; "I can't say I think much of your
taste in slippers, but the fit's the thing. " He slipped his feet into a
pair of sock-like sambhur-skin foot coverings, found a long chair, and
lay at length.
"They're my own pet pair," Torpenhow said. "I was just going to put them
on myself. "
"All your reprehensible selfishness. Just because you see me happy for a
minute, you want to worry me and stir me up. Find another pair. "
"Good for you that Dick can't wear your clothes, Torp. You two live
communistically," said the Nilghai.
"Dick never has anything that I can wear. He's only useful to sponge
upon. "
"Confound you, have you been rummaging round among my clothes, then? "
said Dick. "I put a sovereign in the tobacco-jar yesterday. How do you
expect a man to keep his accounts properly if you----"
Here the Nilghai began to laugh, and Torpenhow joined him.
"Hid a sovereign yesterday! You're no sort of financier. You lent me a
fiver about a month back.
"Did you see anything you knew? "
"Only the Barralong outwards to Australia, and an Odessa grain-boat
loaded down by the head. It was a thick day, but the sea smelt good. "
"Wherefore put on one's best trousers to see the Barralong? " said
Torpenhow, pointing.
"Because I've nothing except these things and my painting duds. Besides,
I wanted to do honour to the sea. "
"Did She make you feel restless? " asked the Nilghai, keenly.
"Crazy. Don't speak of it. I'm sorry I went. "
Torpenhow and the Nilghai exchanged a look as Dick, stooping, busied
himself among the former's boots and trees.
"These will do," he said at last; "I can't say I think much of your
taste in slippers, but the fit's the thing. " He slipped his feet into a
pair of sock-like sambhur-skin foot coverings, found a long chair, and
lay at length.
"They're my own pet pair," Torpenhow said. "I was just going to put them
on myself. "
"All your reprehensible selfishness. Just because you see me happy for a
minute, you want to worry me and stir me up. Find another pair. "
"Good for you that Dick can't wear your clothes, Torp. You two live
communistically," said the Nilghai.
"Dick never has anything that I can wear. He's only useful to sponge
upon. "
"Confound you, have you been rummaging round among my clothes, then? "
said Dick. "I put a sovereign in the tobacco-jar yesterday. How do you
expect a man to keep his accounts properly if you----"
Here the Nilghai began to laugh, and Torpenhow joined him.
"Hid a sovereign yesterday! You're no sort of financier. You lent me a
fiver about a month back.
