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Show carefully chipping the shell away from the white. "D' you want to go?" he asked. "I wonder if this egg's fresh." "Oh, they always are here!" "Dessay it's all right. D' you want to go?" " Well, I " -she shot a glance at him-" I don't mind. But-haven't you had enough of Barbary sheep by this time?" ·"If you're bored to death we'll go, if not I think I should like to just one more shot at some-spoke very deliberately, with a dull heaviness. "Yes, the egg's all right," he add, tasting it. "Very well. But you're surely goto have a rest to-day." Yes. I may go out towards sun- "I may sleep out." Lady Wyverne started. "Well, but if you can't stand the inns!'' "I may take a tent. They've got one here." "Oh-won't it be cold?" "Take plenty of blankets and you're all right." "Very well," she said. After some minutes, during which he ate and she pretended to eat in silence, Sir Claude said: "You're not bored, are you? don't still want to get away?" "I really don't care what I do," ' she replied, carelessly, " so long as we don't settle down here forever." "We won't do that," he said. They had finished now, and he got up and lit a cigar. As he did so 1 BenchailJal came out from the inn door 1mderneath the veranda, walked slowly across t.h. ,e court and drl\vn |