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Since that time the deer has had no gall and the antelope no dew-claws.,"Eh? What?" asks Lady Rodney, in a dazed fashion, yet coming back to life with amazing rapidity. She sits up. Then in an instant the situation explains itself to her; she collects herself, bestows one glance of passionate anger upon Mona, and then rises to welcome Mrs. Carson with her usual suave manner and bland smile, throwing into the former an air meant to convey the flattering idea that for the past week she has been living on the hope of seeing her soon again.,The drawing-room is very much the same as the ordinary run of drawing-rooms, at which Mona feels distinct disappointment, until, glancing at Lady Lilias, she notices a shudder of disgust run through her frame.,"Do you mean to tell me that I don't care for you?" says Rodney, quickly.,"An' the biggest birds, an' as full o' corn as iver ye see, the rogues!","Not until two?" says Mona, growing miserable again.,Mona throws open the door, and the visitors sail in, all open-eyed and smiling, with their very best company manners hung out for the day.,"Her feet beneath her petticoat,"Yes, I suppose so," replies Mr. Rodney, reluctantly. "But he don't look like it. Hang it, you know," exclaims he, vehemently, "one can stand a good deal, but to have a fellow who wears carbuncle rings, and speaks of his mother as the 'old girl,' call himself your cousin, is more than flesh and blood can put up with: it's—it's worse than the lawsuit.","Why don't you call me Nicholas, as Geoffrey does?","Yes, you, and every other man," says Mona, smiling, and raising her loving eyes to her husband.,That is how the people came to possess the Worm Pipe. That pipe belongs to the band of Piegans known as the Worm People..