[Gutenberg 59772] • Convict B 14: A Novel

Excerpt from Convict B 14: A Novel

You'd not have me Sit down to dinner without washin' my hands, would you? Inquired the new-comer in a voice which his best efforts could never rid of a trace of soft Irish brogue. He was wearing ordinary evening clothes, not very new, but in some subtle way he did contrive to give the impression of being point device in every detail. Denis merion-smith was partner in an aeroplane firm; but he had once been in the Royal Engineers, and though it was years since he had resigned his Commission, he still carried his handsome nose in the air and looked down on inferior mortals through a single eyeglass.

Gardiner laughed. Why not? My crowd mostly do. But we're going up in the social scale. I began with travelers, I went on to artists, I've attained the Church, and I live in hopes of even rising to the army some day. You didn't happen to look into the dining-room on your way down?

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