I Forbid the Banns! — page 269: what you’re looking at

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ON SHORT SIGHT AND OTHER INFIRMITIES. 259 His thoughts smote him as if his soul had been a play- thing that may be buffeted for the pure enjoyment of the thing; and all the time there was that dull, monotonous, gnawing pain that forced him to keep ‘his eyes fixed upon that natural dome of leafage beneath which Bertha and her companion were cgncealed. ‘“‘And so, my dear Julian, as I told you, the seventh grizzly was persuaded by the application of my third bullet to lie down quietly at the foot of the cafion; and then I found when I came to skin the brute—I’ll show you the skin the first time you drop round—I found, I say, that there was only one bullet wound in the whole skin. The fact was that I had taken such good aim for the one vulnerable part the second bullet had simply come upon the first, pushing it in an inch or two, and the third uponthe second; and so my forty-second grizzly % ‘‘What, you here, Mr. Charlton?’’ cried Marian Travers, who was passing behind where Julian and his bear-slaying friend were standing. ‘‘I hope you will put in a good word for Cyril with Sir Ecroyd. Cyril thinks he should lke to become Administrator of the Calipash territory, and Sir Ecroyd has only to say the word and the matter is settled.’’ ‘‘And who, may I ask, is Sir Ecroyd?’’ said Julian. ‘‘What!’’ cried Miss Travers, ‘‘did you not see Sir Ecroyd Fairleigh—the Minister of the Annexation Department? Why, everyone is talking of Mrs. Charlton's conquest.”’ ‘Ts it Sir Ecroyd Fairleigh’ who is talking to my wife?’’ asked Julian. “To be sure it is,’’ said Marian. ‘‘Everyone was under the impression that Sir Ecroyd was a confirmed woman-hater, and that he was devoted to his duties to the exclusion of everything sentimental. You can imagine our astonishment when he asked Lord Ashenthorpe to present him to Mrs. Charlton. Heisa guest at Ashmead for the Whitsuntide (EORNIELIOOKS (E(0)