![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Damned if he didn’t mean it,” Berwick said. ![]() He left behind a couple of dumbfounded men. It was unfortunate that the task of finding her seemed Herculean. Someone who was amusing and would talk to him, rather than reflecting back his own empty jokes. But what he really wanted wasn’t money, a single woman as rich as Berwick’s Aunt Augusta. He turned and walked a few feet before scanning the room for a wife. Darlington nodded at him, and nodded to Thurman. They had banded together on a whim, and it seemed they would part with as little ceremony, albeit years later. “It’s been a pleasure,” he said, a marked lack of interest in his voice. “Witless? Everyone knows we’re the clever ones,” Thurman bleated.ĭarlington didn’t know why he’d spent so much time with such a cretin.īerwick was as intelligent as they came, and he didn’t show a flash of emotion at this sudden parting of boyhood friends. In truth, I did it for the pleasure of herding about all the witless men who call themselves gentlemen, and damned if I didn’t make myself as witless as the least of them.” I can’t believe I did anything prompted by Crogan, who has to be one of the more repellent fools on the earth. “It wasn’t as clever as the Wooly Breeder, though God knows I probably shouldn’t have done that either. “I shouldn’t have done it,” Darlington said. ![]()
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