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'This is Kalliope White, Aunt Jane. Miss Mohun shook hands with her, and said her niece had been much pleased at the meeting, and her sister would be glad to hear of her, explaining to Mr. Stebbing that Captain White had been a brother- officer of Sir Jasper Merrifield. Kalliope had a very prettily-shaped head, with short hair in little curls and rings all over it.
Lamenting the fact to a friend, the following epigram was the result: ‘B kills two patients while from home away— A clever fellow this same B , I wot; If absent thus his patients he can slay, How he must kill them when he’s on the spot!’ Perhaps one of the noted physicians of my boyhood was Mr. Stebbing. ‘He was once,’ writes Mr.
'But, suggested Fergus, somewhat astonished, 'Stebbing says he is no end of a horrid brute of a screw. 'Indeed. What has he been doing? 'He only tipped him a coach wheel. 'Well, to tip over as a coach wheel is the last thing I should have expected of Mr. White, said Aunt Jane, misunderstanding on purpose.
Fairly astounded me, sir! Fifty pounds all in a lump!" "It's about that fifty pounds I want to know something," said Jettison. "He didn't tell you how he'd come by it? Wasn't a legacy, for instance?" "He didn't say anything but that he'd had a bit of luck," answered Stebbing. "I asked no questions. Legacy, now? no, he didn't mention that.
'Perhaps, began the poor man, his tone faltering with a terrible anxiety, but his wife exclaimed hastily 'He never saw nor heard of it. I put it in the fire. There was a general hush, broken by Mr. Stebbing saying slowly 'You -put -it -in -the -fire. 'Yes; I saw those disreputable-looking boys put it into the box.
'Well, but you've never told me about school -how you are placed, and whom you are under. 'Oh! I'm in middle form, under Miss Edgar. Disgusting! It's only the third form that go up to Smiler. She knows it is no use to try to take Stebbing and Burfield.
The measures he was taking for the temporal, intellectual, and spiritual welfare of the people at the works would hardly have been known except for the murmurs of Mrs. Stebbing, although, without their knowing what he was about with them, Mr. Stebbing himself, Mr. Hablot, Miss Mohun, to say nothing of Alexis, the foremen and the men and their wives, had given him the groundwork of his reforms.
Halfway through his after-lunch pipe he rose, took his hat and stick, and set out to pay a visit to Mrs. Truslove. As he came out of the park gates he came upon the Rev. George Stebbing, the locum tenens in charge of the parish, for the vicar was away on a holiday, enjoying a respite from his perpetual struggle with the patron of the living, Lord Loudwater.
White had looked over all their work and had been immensely struck with Miss White's designs, and especially with the table inlaid with autumn leaves, which had been set aside as expensive, unprofitable, and not according to the public taste, and not shown to him on his first visit to the works with Mr. Stebbing.
Stebbing, and sent it by Petros, who told her that he had delivered it. 'I thought nothing could be clearer, and so did Mr. Flight, but unluckily Kalliope had destroyed her brother's letter, and had not read me this part of it, so that she can bring no actual tangible proof, and it is a much more serious matter than it appeared when we were talking to her. Mr.
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