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"Do you think you can do anything?" Mavis asked. "I'm going to do my best, quite as much for Miss Meakin's sake as for the dignity of my profession," replied Mr Napper. "Please read through this, and, if it is correct, kindly sign." Here he handed Mavis a statement of all she had told him in respect of her loss.
But alas for Deacon Meakin's overcare! He had not only locked the doors, but he had hidden the keys. Susanna sped back to the house, seeking on the shelf where he had placed the lantern for them, but failing to find them, while at Eunice's direction Montgomery felt everywhere under the flat stone which served as door-step to the main entrance.
"But it might lead silly girls into all sorts of trouble." "I think most of us know how to behave like ladies and drop the gentleman when he wants to go too far." "Good heavens!" cried Mavis, who was taken aback by the vulgarity of Miss Meakin's point of view.
Mavis found herself in an apartment that was normally a pretentiously furnished drawing-room. Just now, a lately vacated bed was made up on the sofa; a recently used washing basin stood on a chair; whilst Miss Meakin's unassumed garments strewed the floor.
She resolved to seek out Miss Meakin, and ask her to get her betrothed's advice and assistance. As she did not know Miss Meakin's present address, she thought the quickest way to obtain it was to call on her old friend Miss Nippett at Blomfield Road, Shepherd's Bush, who kept the register of all those who attended "Poulter's."
I can climb any tree in Deacon Meakin's woods. I I can climb all the trees in Sq-Sq-Squ-Squire Petti john's woods, top the mountain. I can climb any tree in the whole w-w-world! I c-c-co-could climb the church steeple!" Katharine listened to this boastful statement with interest. She not only believed it, but had observed that as Montgomery neared his climax his stammering became less pronounced.
If he had seen where it was I doubt whether he would have consented to the purchase; but Perrault managed it all, and then, with what he had made out of the case, bought himself a share in Meakin's office at Shinglebay, and constituted himself Lady Hester's legal adviser. Mr. Lea, after vainly trying to get his wife to return to Sault St.
Mavis hastily assented; she was about to ask for Miss Meakin's address, but Miss Nippett was too quick for her. "D'ye think he'll win?" "Who?" "Mr Poulter, of course. 'Aven't you 'eard?" "Tell me." "Oh, I say, you are ignorant! He's competing for the great cotillion prize competition. I thought everybody knew about it." "I think I've heard something. But could you tell me Miss Meakin's address?"
Mavis turned to the nurse, who put her finger to her forehead, as if to insist that Miss Meakin's mind was unhinged. Mavis had appealed to the policeman, to declare there must be some mistake, as she knew Miss Meakin to be of sound mind; but this man had replied that it was not his place to interfere.
To her surprise, he replied, "Nothing at all," and added that he was only too glad to assist her, not only for Miss Meakin's sake, but because he felt that Mavis dimly appreciated his intellectuality.
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