This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...her confounded jacket." I could not help confounding her jacket, but I saw that Jim was a little surprised and displeased at my doing so. "My dear boy," he said gently, "there's no occasion for you to give yourself all that bother. I don't mind going." "Well, then," I returned, provoked beyond the limits of prudence, " ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...her confounded jacket." I could not help confounding her jacket, but I saw that Jim was a little surprised and displeased at my doing so. "My dear boy," he said gently, "there's no occasion for you to give yourself all that bother. I don't mind going." "Well, then," I returned, provoked beyond the limits of prudence, "/ mind your going. Heavens and earth! man, do you imagine that it is because she is afraid of catching cold that Hilda orders you off on an errand which will take you a good three quarters of an hour to accomplish? Do you suppose, by any chance, that Bracknell has stayed down here all this time because he enjoys thirdclass hunting, or because he thinks skating on a pond better fun than disporting himself in London? It is not permissible to be so stupid!" Jim's face became very grave. "Bracknell is staying here to be present at our wedding," he replied; "he has given up a lot of other engagements rather than disappoint us. As for Hilda, I may tell you that she wouldn't have let me get her jacket for her if I hadn't insisted upon it." He added, with something of an effort: "Harry, we're old friends, and I'd stand a great deal from you before I'd quarrel with you; but I'm bound to say that if you make such an insinuation as that again, we can't be friends any longer. I suppose you have got into a habit of suspecting that every man you meet may be a rascal, and now you can't help yourself. I don't want to preach to you, old chap, but it's a beastly bad habit to have got into, and that's the truth." Such was the reward that I obtained for my well-meant, but injudicious meddling. I am sorry to say that I was foolish enough to feel deeply affronted by Jim's rebuke, and a cooln...
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