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He wondered. "So immensely taken that they can't that your father can't give you his last evening in England?" This, for Maggie, was more difficult to meet; yet she was still not without her stop-gap. "That may be what they'll propose that we shall go somewhere together, the four of us, for a celebration except that, to round it thoroughly off, we ought also to have Fanny and the Colonel.
The young gentleman was haughty like, and couldn't make nothing of him; but the lady she's so affable! She is one of a thousand!" "I did not mean to impose a task on you," said Mr. Ogilvie, next time he could speak to Mrs. Brownlow. "Oh! I am only acting stop-gap till Armine rallies and takes to it," she said. "The boy is delightful.
Could you?" "I can't come very early in the morning; but Amy can get supper for the children, so that I could stay until after your dinner at night, Janice." "Mrs. Carringford! if you'll come and help us," gasped Janice, "I think I'll just cry for joy." "Don't do that, my dear. Of course, this is only a stop-gap.
The Canon's commendation of each course and we talked of little else, I remember, from soup to dessert was as discriminating as it was warm. "I am glad you approve of our cook, Uncle," said Lady Atherley in the drawing-room afterwards, "for she is only a stop-gap. Our own cook left us quite suddenly the other day, and we had such difficulty in finding this one to take her place.
I was under the impression that the man from the posting-house had settled it for us that we required a pair of horses, attached to whatever he thought fit, and that I had accepted his dictation. The next thing to do, evidently, was to adopt the Russian stop-gap of tea.
Then, having replaced the defective or old lath, he will re-plaster and a properly finished job will result. There is, however, another course of action. It is neither permanent nor as good but it will bridge a gap when the family exchequer can ill afford the luxury of a plasterer and his helper. This is an old farm method of economical stop-gap repair. Take some new coarse muslin.
"Why, it means," Rowland commented, "that he has taken up a piece of work, and that it is all-absorbing. That 's very good news." This explanation was not sincere; but he had not the courage not to offer it as a stop-gap. But he found he needed all his courage to maintain it, for Miss Garland had left her place and approached him, formidably unsatisfied.
"At any rate, take Garangeot as a stop-gap!" pleaded Heloise. "He has the whole press on his side " Just at that moment the cashier came in with a note for a thousand francs in his hand. "Give it to madame here," said Gaudissart. "Good-day, my good woman; take good care of the dear man, and tell him that I am coming to see him to-morrow, or sometime as soon as I can, in short."
He said he had been rehearsing 'Caste' after the performance; that they've put it on as a stop-gap on account of the failure of the 'Triflers, and that he knew revivals were of no use; that he would give any sum for a good modern comedy. That was my cue, and I told him I knew of a better comedy than any he had produced at his theatre in five years, and that it was going begging.
"You said it was perfectly legitimate, didn't you?" "Yes, but " the entrance of a waiter to clear the table provided a merciful stop-gap, and Eckstein, hurriedly consulting his watch, switched abruptly. "By Jove! I'm due at the office this minute to meet a lot of cattlemen," he stammered, and escaped like a man hastening for first aid to the mistaken.
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