[A Dog with a Bad Name by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookA Dog with a Bad Name CHAPTER FOURTEEN 15/21
It has grapes in it.
Didn't I, Mr Jeffreys ?" she said, appealing gaily to him with a smile which seemed to make a man of him once more. "I will undertake not to eat them," said he, with a twitch of his mouth, receiving the precious basket. After that he sacrificed even his afternoon constitutionals, and took to the life of a hermit until Wildtree Towers should be rid of its visitors.
But even so he could not be quite safe.
Percy occasionally hunted him out and demanded his company with himself and a few choice spirits on some hare-brained expedition.
Jeffreys did not object to Percy or the hare-brained expedition; but the "choice spirits" sometimes discomposed him.
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