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Updated: May 24, 2025
'We are going to restore the fallen fortunes of the House of Bastable and we have all thought of different ways and we're going to try them all. Noel's way is poetry. I suppose great poets get paid? The lady laughed she was awfully jolly and said she was a sort of poet, too, and the long strips of paper were the proofs of her new book of stories.
THE house of Bastable was once in poor, but honest, circs. That was when it lived in a semi-detached house in the Lewisham Road, and looked for treasure. There were six scions of the house who looked for it in fact there were seven, if you count Father. I am sure he looked right enough, but he did not do it the right way. And we did.
'Oswald Bastable, I said; and I do hope you people who are reading this story have not guessed before that I was Oswald all the time. 'Oswald Bastable, eh? Bless my soul! said the poor Indian. 'Yes, I'll dine with you, Mr Oswald Bastable, with all the pleasure in life. Very kind and cordial invitation, I'm sure. Good night, sir. At one o'clock, I presume? 'Yes, at one, I said.
It is much easier without. And do try to forget that Oswald has another name besides Bastable. The one beginning with C., I mean. Perhaps you have not noticed what it was. If so, don't look back for it. It is a name no manly boy would like to be called by if he spoke the truth. Oswald is said to be a very manly boy, and he despises that name, and will never give it to his own son when he has one.
I do not wish to be injurious to anybody, especially one who was a Bastable, by birth at least if not according to the nobler attributes, but I must say that Oswald never did dislike a boy so much as he did that young Archibald.
This is what she read: NEW SOCIETY FOR BEING GOOD IN 'I, Dora Bastable, and Alice Bastable, my sister, being of sound mind and body, when we were shut up with bread and water on that jungle day, we thought a great deal about our naughty sins, and we made our minds up to be good for ever after. And we talked to Daisy about it, and she had an idea. So we want to start a society for being good in.
On this particular morning the sight of Lady Bastable enthroned among her papers gave Clovis the hint towards which his mind had been groping all breakfast time. His mother had gone upstairs to supervise packing operations, and he was alone on the ground-floor with his hostess and the servants. The latter were the key to the situation.
We told her our names, but she thought they were too short, so when it was Noel's turn he said he was Prince Noel Camaralzaman Ivan Constantine Charlemagne James John Edward Biggs Maximilian Bastable Prince of Lewisham, but when she asked him to say it again of course he could only get the first two names right, because he'd made it up as he went on.
'I like your poetry very much, young man. I'll give you let me see; how much shall I give you for it? 'As much as ever you can, said Noel. 'You see I want a good deal of money to restore the fallen fortunes of the house of Bastable. The gentleman put on some eye-glasses and looked hard at us. Then he sat down. 'That's a good idea, said he. 'Tell me how you came to think of it.
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