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Why should we give up swinging on the gate? He can take his old books and sit on the Orphan Rock to write them. No one will disturb him there." "What are you talking about, children?" said Miss Bibby. "Pauline, answer me properly. I didn't know 'Tenby' was let. Who has taken it?" "I forget his name," said Pauline; "please pass the bananas. Oh, Lynn, you've taken all the jam.
Pauline used to say she would feel perfectly happy if she could once see Miss Bibby eat a big, lovely woolly currant bun or a plate of rich brown sausages dished on buttered toast. And Lynn it actually moved Lynn to poetry, the tragedy of this meagre fare. Pauline was bidden write "the song" down.
For he could so plainly recognize his own influence, and the incongruity of it against the gentle, colourless background of the tale was in truth amusing. A more ludicrous effect could hardly have been obtained, if Miss Bibby herself, clad in the limp lavender muslin, had been encountered lashing about with a stockwhip or hurling blue metal wildly in all directions.
'Pon my soul, Miss Bibby, I'd give you the chance you are so indefatigable if I had such a thing as a wife." Miss Bibby laughed nervously, "I I think they like to know about an author's methods of work," she said, "if you would be so very kind." "Certainly, certainly," said Hugh. "I rather pride myself upon my methods, now you come to mention it.
Indeed they found it out to their sorrow, for she had Mrs. Lomax's entire permission to work upon themselves one or two of her hygienic reforms if she could only manage it. So at seven o'clock, when in various stages of their morning toilet, they were confronted by Miss Bibby, armed with a tall jug of hot water and five tumblers.
Clara Bibby wrote verse; if you happened to be a reader of obscure country newspapers you would frequently come across a poem entitled Australia my Country, or Wattle Blossom, with the signature "Clara L. C. Bibby" beneath it. Alice, the quietest, gentlest little person in the world, wrote vehement articles in the suburban Woman's Political Organ. And Grace had actually brought out a book.
Pauline passed it to Miss Bibby and on such small things does our destiny hang the wrong side up. That is to say the nauseating statement about the prime middle cut at elevenpence a pound was what met the eye of the eager Miss Bibby. An ebullition of anger such as rarely visited the gentle lady rose within her now. She flung the card angrily into the fire.
Morning after morning did he, after receiving his orders from Miss Bibby at the kitchen door, ride his horse to the road at one side of the house, where some well-grown pines made a kindly screen, and there let the children, one after the other, have all the delights of a stolen ride.
"Oh, by Jove," he said, "yes, there's that short story of mine, 'Fools of Fortune' I've promised that for the Melbourne Review, it ought to have been posted last night. And then there's that woman's stuff I suppose there's no time for me to run across to Miss Bibby, eh, K?" "Certainly there is not," said Kate decisively, "you don't stir from here without a comfortable lunch."
I did hand it to the oldest of 'em, certainly, but I took the precaution, Miss Bibby, ma'am, to stay at the door till I seen her hand it to you. You was standin' by the fire and I seen it acshally in yer hand." "But that was no letter," said Miss Bibby, a faint recollection stealing over her, "it was one of your trade cards." "It was on one of those I wrote," said Hugh, "having no other paper.
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