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Cox and Bertram would certainly make a match of it, and that Wilkinson was also in danger. "Did you ever see such flirts?" said Mrs. Bangster to Dr. O'Shaughnessey. "What an escape Biffin has had!" "She is a deuced pretty woman, Mrs. Bangster; and I'll tell you what: Biffin would give one of his eyes to get her back again if he could." "Laws, doctor!

Shaughnessey, and the judge. Mrs. Bangster had made a promise to old Mr. Price in England to look after her; and, therefore, she thought it better to go back to Mrs. Bangster before they reached Southampton. They were now past Gibraltar. So on that day, Mrs. Price's usual chair at dinner was vacant, and Wilkinson, looking down the tables, saw that room had been made for her next to Dr.

You don't mean to tell me that he ever meant to marry that thing?" "I don't know what he meant before; but he would mean it now, if he got the opportunity." Here Captain M'Gramm joined them. "Well, Mac," said the doctor, "what news with the widow?" "Widow! they'd all be widows if they could, I believe." "Indeed, I wouldn't, for one," said Mrs. Bangster. "B. is a deal too well off where he is.

But as soon as the major's back was turned, she said to Bertram, "I think the barber's block wants to be new curled, doesn't it? I declare the barber's man has forgotten to comb out it's whiskers." So that Bertram had no ground for jealousy of the major. Somewhere about this time, Mrs. Price deserted them at dinner. She was going to sit, she said, with Mrs. Bangster, and Dr.

"I do like pale ale," said she; "I suppose it's vulgar, but I can't help that. What amuses me is, that so many ladies drink it who are quite ashamed to say they like it." "They take it for their health's sake," said Bertram. "Oh, yes; of course they do. Mrs. Bangster takes her half-pint of brandy every night for her health's sake, no doubt. Would you believe it, Mr.

These treasures were not hidden under a bushel when they returned to the ship; and Dr. O'Shaughnessey, Mrs. Bangster, the fat judge, and a host of others, were more sure than ever that both the widows were re-engaged. And Arthur Wilkinson was becoming frightened in his mind.

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