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"I don't joke so well in rags as in silken motley," I returned with a smile, "but I do my best." She disdained a retort. "We'll arrange, anyhow, with Agatha." Campion, escaping from his friends, came up and chatted for a minute. Then he saw Eleanor and her companion to their carriage. "Now," said he a moment later, "come to Barbara and have some supper. You won't mind if Jenkins joins us?"
Among the propositions submitted then and afterwards were several wild and visionary projects of government. Thus Mr. Jenkins, a Virginia member, proposed an arrangement requiring separate sanction of the slave-holding interest to each and every operation of government; a dual executive; a dual senate, or dual majority of the senate, or other advisory body or council. Mr.
Kershaw stood to the right of the fort and Anderson, of Jenkins' Division, on the left, supported by the other two brigades then present of Jenkins'. The battle was to focus around the fort until that was taken or silenced, then Kershaw was to storm the works on the right, carry them, charge the second line of entrenchment, in which were posted the reserves and recent Tennessee recruits.
He loved her for it, but could not help being amused by it. When Dion arrived at the gymnasium, Jenkins was giving a lesson to a small boy of perhaps twelve years old, whose mother was looking eagerly on.
"I'll be sure to come in good time In the morning, Jenkins, and set to it like a brick," was his parting salutation. Away he went. Jenkins, with his aching head and his harassing cough, applied himself diligently, as he ever did, to the afternoon's work, and got through it by six o'clock, which was later than usual. There then remained the copying, which Mr. Roland Yorke ought to have done.
They were pretty mad about it at first; but after all it was only a joke, and when Hinckley got down to bail them out they were singing with great feeling a song which Jenkins, the class poet, had just composed, and which ran as follows: "As we walked along the street Officer Sikes we chanced to meet, And his shoes were full of feet As he prowled along his beat.
D'ye see them handsome barkers of mine?" pointing to a fine display of eighteen- pounders, six of a side, mounted in the ship's main-deck battery. "Waal, I was in more'n half a mind to give ye a dose from them in answer to your shot; and yew may thank my mate here, Mr Silas Jenkins, for persuadin' me outer the notion! And what d'ye want, anyway, now that yew're here, and be hanged to ye?"
"Jenkins, you are exceedingly uncomplimentary at times," said Raffles Holmes, showing more resentment than I had ever given him credit for. "Perhaps you observed that I didn't go to the station in the omnibus." "No, you went over to the drug-store after some phenacetine for your headache," said I.
The Persons who are in the Play: The Christmas Spirit Peggy Lee The Christmas Fairies: Happyheart Keineth Randolph Peace Marian Jenkins Goodwill Sally Penny Merrylips Fanny Penny Joy Anne Penny Spirit of Childhood Alice Lee "I recognize Barbara's hand assisting," laughed Mr. Lee, as he read through the program. "Sh h!" The chatter suddenly ceased.
'But the shame, Gladys; you know my father, it will be his death. 'Oh no, sir, he always expected something of the kind. I have often heard him say so. If we could only find Mrs Jenkins and her child it would not be so bad. Mr Jones came in, and Gladys left the room and went to Miss Gwynne.
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