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I tell you I'll be damned if he dies, sir!" And I fancy the recording angel heard him, and against a list of wordy cheats registered that oath to his credit. It was Petheridge Jukesbury, then, who stalked into Mrs.
The Colonel had seen dead men and dying men before this; and as he bent over the boy he loved he gave a convulsive sob, and afterward buried his face in his hands. Then of all unlikely persons in the world it was Petheridge Jukesbury who rose to meet the occasion. His suavity and blandness forgotten in the presence of death, he mounted with confident alacrity to heights of greatness.
Margaret thought this very nice of him; it was a delicate tribute to her that he ate nothing; and the fact that Hugh Van Orden and Petheridge Jukesbury as she believed acted in precisely the same way for precisely the same reason, merely demonstrated, of course, their overwhelming conceit and presumption.
Also, he had forceful opinions as to the ultimate destination of those who were. Then Billy was presented to the men of the party Mr. Felix Kennaston and Mr. Petheridge Jukesbury. Mrs. Haggage he knew slightly; and Kathleen Saumarez he had known very well indeed, some six years previously, before she had ever heard of Miguel Saumarez, and when Billy was still an undergraduate.
Jukesbury, "to appear lacking in respect to the cloth, but er just at present I am inclined to think we are in somewhat greater need of a mattress and a doctor and ah the exercise of a little common-sense. The gentleman is er let us hope, in no immediate danger." "How dare you suggest such a thing, sir?" thundered Petheridge Jukesbury. "Didn't you see that poor girl's face?
"Because," Billy went on, fretfully, "I don't propose to miss the Trojan war. The princes orgulous with high blood chafed, you know, are all going to be there, and I don't propose to miss it." Behind his fat back, Petheridge Jukesbury waved a cautioning hand at Margaret, who had risen from her chair.
The Colonel's hand rested fraternally on Petheridge Jukesbury's shoulder. The next day there was a general exodus from Selwoode, and Margaret's satellites dispersed upon their divers ways.
His voice in speaking is wonderfully pleasing, and he has a habit of cocking his head on one side, in a bird-like fashion. "Indeed," Mr. Petheridge Jukesbury observed, "it is very true that God made the country and man made the town. A little more wine, please." Mr. Jukesbury is a prominent worker in the cause of philanthropy and temperance.
Then she gave the name of the book to Petheridge Jukesbury. "Dear, dear," Felix Kennaston sighed, as Mr. Jukesbury made a note of it; "you are all so practical. You perceive an evil and proceed at once, in your common-sense way, to crush it, to stamp it out. Now, I can merely lament certain unfortunate tendencies of the age; I am quite unable to contend against them. Do you know," Mr.
Petheridge Jukesbury had at divers times pointed out to her the evils of promiscuous charity, and these dicta Margaret parroted glibly enough, to do her justice, so long as there was no immediate question of dispensing alms.
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