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"Methought I saw Sir Marmaduke de Chavasse just now," said Endicott, looking about him. "Ah! and here comes our worthy baronet," he added cheerily as Sir Marmaduke's closely cropped head very noticeable in the crowd of periwigs emerged from amidst the group that clustered round Mistress Endicott. "A hand at primero, sir?"
After a week's waiting she sent an anxious telegram. The answer came back. "Quite well. Will write soon." She waited. He did not write. One evening an unstamped envelope, addressed to her in a feminine hand, which she recognized as that of Marmaduke's anonymous correspondent, was found in the Deanery letter-box.
No more than three shakes of a lamb's tail when you come to look at it right." "But where do you get all the coal?" was Marmaduke's next question. "I should think you'd use it all up quick, you put on such big shovelsful." "See there," the Giant said, for answer pointing in at the sides of the pit. Little tunnels ran from the sides into the dark Earth.
Douglas, whose face had reddened and reddened with successive rushes of blood until it was now purple, lost all self-control at Marmaduke's commiserating tone. "I will see whether I cannot put him in the wrong," he burst out, in the debased voice of an ignobly angry man. "Do you think I will let him tell the world that I have been thrown over and fooled?" "Thats your own story, isnt it?
Not far from him sits on a rough wooden seat, Mistress Amelia Editha de Chavasse, widow of Sir Marmaduke's elder brother, a good-looking woman still, save for the look of discontent, almost of suppressed rebellion, apparent in the perpetual dark frown between the straight brows, in the downward curve of the well-chiseled mouth, and in the lowering look which seems to dwell for ever in the handsome dark eyes.
She did not suggest what was to become of her when Sir Marmaduke's leave of absence should be expired. But her statement that she would not go back to the islands was certainly made with more substantial vigour, though, perhaps, with less of reasoning, than any other of the propositions made in her letter. Then, in her postscript, she told him that they were all going to Italy.
George described the interview to me, and shewed me, I am sorry to say, how much downright ferocity may exist beneath an apparently frank, jovial, reckless exterior like Marmaduke's." "Well, I hardly wonder at his refusing. Of course, he might have known that the motive of the offer was a kind one." "Refused! A gentleman can always refuse an offer with dignity. Marmaduke was outrageous.
So the birthday party really lasted long after the seven candles had gone out, and the cake had gone, too, every crumb. Uncle Roger lived in town, quite a distance from the home of the Three Happy Children. When they walked, Marmaduke's short legs took one whole hour to reach it; Jehosophat's, forty-five minutes; though the Toyman's long shanks could cover the ground in fifteen.
"Well, dame, what is it you want this morning?" he asked, in his cheery encouraging tone as she appeared. "Why, sir, I hears how Master Marmaduke's going away to sea, and I comes to ask if he'll take my boy Toby with him," answered the dame, promptly. "What, Mrs Bluff, do you wish him to be an officer?" said my father. "Blessy no, sir. It's to be his servant like.
What was it Mother had said? "Poor Frank!" that's what she called him; "he's in trouble," she had whispered to Father. Marmaduke didn't know what he could do, but he wanted to catch up with him, and put his hand in his, and tell him not to worry at all, and say, if he needed money he could have all there was in Marmaduke's bank every last penny, even the bright ones.