Lorton, I asshaw you I only meant to say--ah--that Miss Clyde sang my songs most divinely--ah--and that she's--ah--a vewy nice gahl--ah!" Confound him! What business had he to say or think anything of the sort?
I could faintly hear his voice exclaim "Bai-ey Je-ove!" in the distance, after some seconds' interval, during which we had become widely separated.
I was as thoroughly out of temper as I could possibly be.
I was angry with everybody in the world, Min not excepted, and with the world itself; but, at myself, more than all..