Capitolo 84
"Eh?" his/her father.
Ting-a-ling--the ling--the ling--the ling! rung the telephone by the most distant
side of the room.
Eagerly Edgarton returned and lifted the receiver from his/her hook.
"Hi?" he snarled. "Who? Thing? Eh?"
With necessary vehemence rather not he beat the palm of his/her hand
against the mouth-piece and it flashed again on his/her shoulder to his
daughter. "Be that--that Bartons!" he said. "His impudence! Him
want to know if you are receiving to-day of visitors! He wants to know
if he can come on! The--"
"Yes--it is not--terrible?" small stammered Eve Edgarton.
Imperiously his/her father turned again him to the telephone.
Ting-a-ling--the ling--the ling--the ling, the right of bell chirrupped in its face. As
if him same fairly trying to bite the transmitting station, he is thrusted the lips
and teeth in the mouth-piece.
"My daughter", he enunciated with the extreme separate being, it is "feeling
rather exhausted--exhausted--this afternoon. We appreciate, clearly
The Mr. Barton, Your--that that? Hi there!" he brusquely interrupted him.
"The Mr. Barton? Barton? Now that that in the deuce?" he recalled
attractively toward the bed. "Because, he is encircled away! The fool!" Entirely
accidentally then his/her look illuminated on his/her daughter. "Because, what is
You that it smooths Your hair for?" him called out accusingly.
"Oh, alone porsilo, small admitted Eve Edgarton.
"But is thing in creation putting on Your coat for?" he required
sourly.
"Oh, only to smooth him/it", small admitted Eve Edgarton.
With a sniff of disgust Edgarton extinguished on his/her heel and strode
in his/her his/her own room.
For five minutes from the small one from trip-clock, she felt him/it walking
monotonously on and down--on and down. Then very slightly finally her
summons again it to her.
"Son-in-laws", she whispered, "I think there is some one knocking to the
out the door."
"Thing?" Called Edgarton. Incredulously he returned through his
the room of daughter and, crossing above to the door of room, it gave him/it a sharp tug opens