[The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Great Impersonation CHAPTER V 5/16
But you are so stiff.
Have you been drilling out there or anything ?" He shook his head. "One spends half one's time in the saddle." "And you are really well off ?" she asked again wonderingly. "If I had stayed there another year," he replied, "and been able to marry a Dutch Jewess, I should have qualified for Park Lane." She sighed. "It's too wonderful.
Henry will love having his money back." "And you ?" She looked positively distressed. "You've lost all your manners," she complained.
"You make love like a garden rake.
You should have leaned towards me with a quiver in your voice when you said those last two words, and instead of that you look as though you were sitting at attention, with a positive glint of steel in your eyes." "One sees a woman once in a blue moon out there," he pleaded. She shook her head.
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