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The front door bell rang in a distant part of the house; she dropped her knitting on a small side table and walked quietly out of the room. "I'll tell mother," she said as she went out. "You needn't trouble to do that," said Joe. "She's out I thought you knew." But the door had closed. A moment later the Indiarubber Man was ushered in. The two representatives of His Majesty's Navy shook hands.
"We've come to see your swing, Samuel," said Myra. "Can you do it in there, or is it too crowded?" "I'll come out. This ball's lost, I'm afraid." "One of the little pigs will eat it," complained Archie, "and we shall have indiarubber crackling." Simpson came out and proceeded to give his display. Fortunately the weather kept fine, the conditions indeed being all that could be desired.
Some of the community work by going out and gathering honey; they also serve who only stand and wait who receive it from the workers, and keep it stored up in their own capacious indiarubber maws till further notice.
I required a considerable supply of hot water early in the morning wherewith to fill my portable indiarubber bath a perpetual source of amusement in the Lozere-and he seemed to think that a warm bath, like a cigarette or a petit verre, was a luxury to be indulged in at all hours of the day.
The Fiery Cross was out. "Out Staff!" said the Indiarubber Man in a low voice. "Dogs of war! Out gilded popinjays!" With a promptitude that hinted at long experience of internecine warfare, the newcomers embraced the first maxim of war: "If you must hit, hit first, hit hard, and keep on hitting." Like a flash, the two members of the Personal Staff were on the Indiarubber Man.
The thrush, as if realising that two is company and three none, flew away. Betty handed a cup to the invalid. "There's a piece of toast too you must soak it in the beef-tea, and here is a little bell. If you want anything, or you aren't comfortable, you can ring it." "I see." The Indiarubber Man gravely accepted all three gifts and laid them on the seat beside him. "Thank you awfully.
The family were at luncheon. He tells us how the Prince sat at the head of the table, and how he rose, cool but polite, and remained standing till Tirpitz was seated. The Prince assumed the air of one suffering from sharp neuralgic pain, and he kept pressing the side of his head with a small indiarubber hot-water bottle.
It filled his clothes out suddenly like one of those indiarubber squeakers the children blow at Whitsun Fair; and coming from a man whose looks were all against him, it made you feel humble-minded for having been so quick to judge. I think he had found out the value of this kind of surprise and went about neglecting his appearance on purpose. As I say, he started very well.
The Indiarubber Man looked cautiously round the sunlit enclosure. "True. So you are " "And it's time for your beef-tea," added Betty severely, marching off in the direction of the distant wing. Her patient watched her slim form retreating and vanish down a green alley. "You dear," he said, "you dear!" He meditated awhile. "It's a rum world," he soliloquised. "Torps has gone. The Young Doc.'s gone.
In the flagged and wainscotted parlour of the village inn a child brought us bread and cheese and froth-crested mugs of beer. While we ate and drank, she watched us with tranquil interest in violet-coloured eyes that foretold a sleepless night for some bucolic swain in years to come. The Indiarubber Man finished his last draught and stood up with a mighty sigh to loosen his belt.
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