[The Knave of Diamonds by Ethel May Dell]@TWC D-Link bookThe Knave of Diamonds CHAPTER V 22/23
I'll give your message to my brother.
It'll amuse him." He departed without a backward glance as the servant opened the door, elaborately deaf to Sir Giles's half-strangled reply that he might go to the devil and take his brother with him. He left dead silence in the room behind him, but the moment that the clang of the front door told of his final exit the storm burst. Sir Giles, livid, stammering with rage, strode up and down and cursed the departed visitor in lurid language, cursed the errand that had brought him, and rated his wife for admitting him. "I will not know these impertinent, opulent Americans!" was the burden of his maledictions.
"As for that damned, insolent bounder, I will never have him in the house again.
Understand that! I know him.
I've heard Shirley talk of him.
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