[The Island Pharisees by John Galsworthy]@TWC D-Link bookThe Island Pharisees CHAPTER IX 4/7
"Pretty girl! They've a nice place, the, Dennants.
D' ye know, you're a lucky feller!" The speaker was an old baronet, with small eyes, a dusky, ruddy face, and peculiar hail-fellow-well-met expression, at once morose and sly. He was always hard up, but being a man of enterprise knew all the best people, as well as all the worst, so that he dined out every night. "You're a lucky feller," he repeated; "he's got some deuced good shootin', Dennant! They come too high for me, though; never touched a feather last time I shot there.
She's a pretty girl.
You 're a lucky feller!" "I know that," said Shelton humbly. "Wish I were in your shoes.
Who was that sittin' on the other side of you? I'm so dashed short-sighted.
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