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If I had not gone to London with him that last time, he'd have got away with the boy then, for certain. For an instant an uneasy thought came to me that he might have something in reserve, something unknown to me, which had encouraged him to this direct attack. I dismissed the notion. There could be nothing. Mr Abney had turned to me with a look of hopeless bewilderment. I raised my eyebrows.
And then by the open grave the present General led all hearts to make a fresh consecration, the whole assembly promising, with God's help, that they would be 'Faithful to Thee, faithful to one another, and faithful to a dying world, till we meet our beloved Mother in the Morning. Amen. If ever you are in Abney Park Cemetery you should visit her grave. It is very simple.
Mr Ford' a slight frown appeared on his lofty brow 'Mr Ford obtained his present situation for him in order that he might protect his son in the event of ah in fact, any attempt to remove him. I saw Audrey start. A quick flush came into her face. She uttered a little exclamation of astonishment. 'Just so, said Mr Abney, by way of comment on this. 'You are naturally surprised.
'You will have Mr Burns to help you, White. He has kindly consented to postpone his departure during the short period in which I shall be compelled to be absent. I had no recollection of having given any kind consent, but I was very willing to have it assumed, and I was glad to see that Mr Fisher, though Mr Abney did not observe it, was visibly taken aback by this piece of information.
My colleague, Glossop, had most of the qualities that make for success, but no luck. Properly backed up by Mr Abney, he might have kept order. As it was, his class-room was a bear-garden, and, when he took duty, chaos reigned. I, on the other hand, had luck. For some reason the boys agreed to accept me.
I found Mr Abney pacing the room, a look of annoyance on his face. At the desk, her back to me, Audrey was writing. It was part of her work to take charge of the business correspondence of the establishment. She did not look round when I came in, nor when Mr Abney spoke my name, but went on writing as if I did not exist.
Sometimes Mr Abney would leave us immediately after the ceremony, but he never omitted to take his part in it first. On this particular evening, for the first time since the beginning of the term, I was seized with a prejudice against coffee. I had been sleeping badly for several nights, and I decided that abstention from coffee might remedy this.
It was not till the 14th of September, about eight months after the time fixed for the arrival of his whole fleet, that the first instalment of it, the Perseverance, which he had sent on as soon as it was completed, with Captain Abney Hastings as its commander, entered the harbour of Nauplia.
Looking back, I think I can fix the point at which this insane venture I had undertaken ceased to be a distorted dream, from which I vaguely hoped that I might shortly waken, and took shape as a reality of the immediate future. That moment came when I met Mr Arnold Abney by appointment at his club. Till then the whole enterprise had been visionary.
Mention of a cold snack and a drop of beer, however, to be found in the kitchen, served to cast a gleam of brightness on their gloom, and they vanished in search of it with something approaching cheeriness, Johnson taking notes to the last. They had hardly gone when Glossop whirled into the room in a state of effervescing agitation. 'Mr Abney, Ogden Ford is nowhere to be found!
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