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"The girl spoke very proper indeed this morning, and she is a good girl plain and sensible, and I couldn't but take notice of her words. Now then, s'pose we take a fresh 'ansom, and hurry home; and I'll take you out and give you a right good bit of dinner, and afterwards we'll go to the play." "Oh dear!" said Mrs. Howland, "you are good to me, Bo-peep." Mrs.
'Ere you come, a pore mis'rable specimen of 'uman scum, an' I tykes yer into my galley an' treats yer 'ansom, an' this is wot I get for it. Nex' time you can go to 'ell, say I, an' I've a good mind to give you what-for anyw'y." So saying, he put up his fists and started for me. To my shame be it, I cowered away from the blow and ran out the galley door. What else was I to do?
"Did you notice a young lady in a gray dress pass this way?" he asked the man as they went. "With a pink feather in 'er 'at, sir?" "Yes." "Not pass up this way, sir," the man rejoined. "She got into a 'ansom over there, and drove off if it was the same young lady." Major Colquhoun stopped short. The compartment reserved for them was empty also. "Dover express!
And, like an exemplary servant as he was, he lingered about the passage while Lord Winsleigh entered his library, and, after remaining there some ten minutes or so, came out again in hat and great coat. The officious Briggs handed him his cane, and inquired "'Ansom, my lord?" "Thanks, no. I will walk."
"You howling little cad," I shall say to myself, "I have half a mind to strangle you"; and I shall shave myself, and put on a quiet blue serge suit and a bowler 'at, tell my landlady to keep my rooms for me till I comes back, slip out o' the 'ouse, and into the fust 'ansom I meets, and back to the Halbany.
"No," said Mrs. Larkins, "once you got it you got it. Like choosing a 'usband. You better see you got it good. I kept Larkins 'esitating two years I did, until I felt sure of him. A 'ansom man 'e was as you can see by the looks of the girls, but 'ansom is as 'ansom does. You'd like a bit of jam to your tea, I expect? I 'ope they'll keep their men waiting when the time comes.
"Shall I look about for a 'ansom, sir?" he inquired with perfect gravity. St. George hardly heard. "It's like cutting into a great, smooth sheet of white paper," he said whimsically, "and making any figure you want to make."
"Yis, my darter," sez I. "I s'pose," sez I, "you think she ain't 'ansom enough to be my darter. No more she ain't," sez I; "but she takes arter her father, an' werry sorry she is for it," sez I. "I want to put her in the way of 'arnin' some money," sez 'e. "Oh, do you?" sez I. "How very kind!
I lives in Primrose Court, Great Queen Street, an' my reg'lar perfession is a-sellin' coffee "so airly in the mornin'," and I've got a darter as ain't quite so 'ansom as me, bein' the moral of her father. And now in my vision I perceived that Nin-ki-gal's face was that of the old woman I had seen in Cyril's studio, and that she was dressed in the same fantastic in which Cyril had bedizened her.
The three events presented themselves together Tom's escort of Catharine, the interview with Mrs. Furze, and the departure to Chapel Farm. He was excited, and his excitement took the form of a sudden passion for Phoebe. "You're ten times too 'ansom for that chap," he cried, and turning suddenly, he caught her with one arm round her waist.
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