Edgar Jepson

Name: Lady Noggs, Peeress — 12. The Impossible Uncle
Author: Edgar Jepson

Lady Noggs, Peeress — 12. The Impossible Uncle (1905)

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“Lady Noggs, Peeress — 12. The Impossible Uncle”, published in 1905, is a work by Edgar Jepson. It explores elements such as Lady Noggs, Caldecott and Borrodaile.

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Edgar Jepson, Lady Noggs, Peeress — 12. The Impossible Uncle (1905)

“ Mr. Beresford Caldecott's eyes seemed likely to burst out of his head and fly at Mr. Borrodaile; he wrung his hands, and danced a little dance of extreme nervous fury: "A land of law and order! Law and order!" he gasped hoarsely. "A South American saloon! Oh, if I'd got you in one! Oh, lord! What?"
"It would be absurd of Miss Caldecott and me to marry! Absurd!" Mr. Borrodaile shouted at him. "We can't afford it! And we're not going to be bullied into it by any bunco-steering broncho-buster from the wide pampas! No: we're not!" ”

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Edgar Jepson, Lady Noggs, Peeress — 12. The Impossible Uncle (1905)

“ What! The idiot told me that Lady Felicia Grandison was on the lawn. It's her I want. I've come to say a few words about meddling with the affairs of other people to Lady Felicia Grandison—I want to tell her to mind her own business. What! Where is she, Violet? Eh! Where is she?"
"I'm here," said the Lady Noggs. "I'm Lady Felicia Grandison."
Mr. Caldecott turned his eyes quickly upon her, and a sudden blankness filled his face. "Eh, what! You're Lady Felicia Grandison?" and he looked at Violet for confirmation.
Violet nodded and said, "Yes, this is Lady Felicia Grandison." ”

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Edgar Jepson, Lady Noggs, Peeress — 12. The Impossible Uncle (1905)

“ The duchess, dear soul, had not that full acquaintance with the Lady Noggs which the two others enjoyed, and she began to question her. But the Lady Noggs with a little help from Mr. Borrodaile grew vague and mysterious, and she got nothing out of her. In the end the duchess came to the conclusion that, after all, the intervention of the Lady Noggs could not be of any importance, though, merely as a matter of curiosity she would have liked to learn what it had been. She said, "Well, I hope it's all right. But Beresford is and always has been the worst-tempered man in the world." ”

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Edgar Jepson, Lady Noggs, Peeress — 12. The Impossible Uncle (1905)

“ The footman who was pouring it into a tumbler stopped at a liberal measure, but Mr. Caldecott sprang up with a little burst of beautiful, sibilant Spanish, snatched the bottle from him and trebled the quantity. Then, loudly as he had bawled for water, he made the very smallest use of it. He sat down again holding the tumbler in a hand on which there were but three fingers, since it is impossible to acquire such a filling and resounding title as Tiger Jake, and at the same time keep all your fingers; and he used that tumbler of whisky as a shield against the Lady Noggs. ”

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Edgar Jepson, Lady Noggs, Peeress — 12. The Impossible Uncle (1905)

“ He did indeed assure her with every appearance of fury that "A little girl should be seen and not heard!" But his enunciation of this aphorism, to her the merest platitude, did not prevent her from inquiring whether he owed that glorious title to his appearance, his nature, his manners, or merely to some extraordinary piece of good fortune. ”

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Edgar Jepson, Lady Noggs, Peeress — 12. The Impossible Uncle (1905)

“ I thought he wasn't a nice uncle," said the Lady Noggs.
"What do you mean?" said Miss Caldecott.
"When you ask people about any one who's nice they say so straight away," said the Lady Noggs. "And when he isn't nice, they don't tell you anything."
"I see," said Miss Caldecott. "But why did you want to know?"
The Lady Noggs shook her head. "That's a secret," she said. And Miss Caldecott forebore to press her.
The relations of Mr. Borrodaile and Miss Caldecott were beginning to move in quite the wrong direction, and both of them were on the way to resentment. Mr. ”

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Edgar Jepson, Lady Noggs, Peeress — 12. The Impossible Uncle (1905)

“ Its difficulties began early. It was no easy matter to decide whether to write "Dear Sir" or "Dear Mr. Caldecott." But by dint of nibbling firmly the end of her pen she found the solution: she could write the letter in the third person. Accordingly she set about it, and at the end of a half an hour's patient struggle, she had finished the rough draft. Then with a splendid endurance she copied it. When it was done there was much more ink on the Lady Noggs than on the paper. It ran:—
Lady Felicia Grandison pressents her complements to Mr. ”

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