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By seven his panic about Hanky and Panky ended, for if they had not come by this time, they were not likely to do so. Not knowing that they were staying at the Mayor's, he had rather settled it that they would now stroll up to the place where they had left their hoard and bring it down as soon as night had fallen.
Nevertheless, angry though he was, he was impenitent, unabashed, and brazened it out at Bridgeford, that the King had received him with open arms, and had snubbed Dr. Downie and myself. And so forth. Panky never opened his mouth. "Returning to the King, his Majesty said to Dr. Downie, 'I am afraid I shall not be able to canonize any of you gentlemen just yet. We must let this affair blow over.
I never rise to great occasions, I always fall to them, but these things must come as they come." "You did it as well as it could be done, and good will come of it." "And now," he continued, "describe exactly all that passed between you and the Professors. On which side of Panky did Hanky sit, and did they sit north and south or east and west?
Was George only waiting his opportunity to arrest him not of course even suspecting who he was but as a foreign devil who had tried to pass himself off as Professor Panky? Had this been the meaning of his having followed him to Fairmead? And should he have to be thrown into the Blue Pool by George after all? "It would serve me," said he to himself, "richly right."
Besides, from all I have heard about him, I take it he was a precious idiot." "O Hanky, Hanky! you will wreck the whole thing if you ever allow yourself to talk in that way." "You are more likely to wreck it yourself, Panky, by never doing so. People like being deceived, but they like also to have an inkling of their own deception, and you never inkle them."
You know, perhaps, that Professor Hanky, whose name I see on your permit, tried to burn her alive?" "Thank heaven!" thought my father, "that I am Panky;" but aloud he said, "Oh, horrible! horrible! I cannot believe this even of Hanky." "He denies it, and we say we believe him; he was most kind and attentive to my mother during all the rest of her stay in Bridgeford.
He was the mere common, superficial, perfunctory Professor, who, being a Professor, would of course profess, but would not lie more than was in the bond; he was log-rolled and log-rolling, but still, in a robust wolfish fashion, human. Panky, on the other hand, was hardly human; he had thrown himself so earnestly into his work, that he had become a living lie.
"The Queen," said Panky, returning to the statues, "sticks to it that . . . " "Here comes another bird," interrupted Hanky; "never mind about the Queen." The bird was soon eaten, whereon Panky again took up his parable about the Queen. "The Queen says they are connected with the cult of the ancient Goddess Kiss-me-quick." "What if they are? But the Queen sees Kiss-me-quick in everything.
How did you get oh yes, I know that you told them it would be of no further use to them. Tell me all else you can." My father said that the Professors were sitting pretty well east and west, so that Hanky, who was on the east side, nearest the mountains, had Panky, who was on the Sunch'ston side, on his right hand. George made a note of this.
It was beginning to dawn upon my father that George might have discovered that he was not Professor Panky; was it for this reason that these two young special constables, though they gave up their places, still kept so close to him?
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