The wind is the from south-west, explained Captain Gilbey. ay how hard it is to find good servants in London and if onlysomeone would help him to a good manservant he believed he would payalmost any money. It was an old-fashioned house - the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it,which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in. Then he laughed,his spirits as elevated as moments before they had been the reverse.
Childermass,waiting impatiently just within the door, saw that as he came along thepassage his eyes were closed and the servant led him by the hand. This was because the man had a pineapple in his mouth. Oh! said Strange with a smile. But you see I have my pistols with me, and amquite as desperate as any of them.
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