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"I want you to decide for me." Then, leaning away from him, she put both her hands on his shoulders. "Take me away, Derek take me away with you now. Let's go and get married just you and I and Binks and go right away from everyone, and be alone." Once again the imps knocked tauntingly, but Vane only smiled gravely and shook his head. "Where would the difference be, darling?" he asked.
And while the women watched breathlessly, or prayed, Geoff, with old Binks, struggled on, a nightmare feeling weighing them down all the time, that they were standing still, instead of making way.
When the day's work was ended Mrs. Wright exclaimed: "Thank goodness! the Binkses have not returned." We always referred to Mrs. Binks as the Binkses after that. Mrs. Jenison, a friend of the Wrights, came in that afternoon and told us of the visit of young Latour to Canton and of the great relief of the decent people at his speedy departure. "I wonder what brought him here," said Mrs. Wright.
I hoed the garden and cleaned its paths and mowed the dooryard and did some painting in the house. I remember that Mrs. Ebenezer Binks wife of the deacon and the constable came in while I was at the latter task early one morning to see if there were anything she could do.
'I shall ask father for some of that famous liniment of his, Binks, said Theo. 'I could send you over some in a little bottle; the boys shall bring it this evening. 'If you ask me candid, I should say that glue would be the best liniment to patch them jints! Binks was stolidly contemplating the loose condition of Miss Muffet's limbs. 'We're at cross purposes! laughed Theo.
Binks tired of his abortive blasts at an unresponsive hole desired refreshment, and from time immemorial tea had been the one meal at which he was allowed to beg. He condescended to eat two slices of saffron cake, and then Vane presented the slop basin to Joan. "He likes his tea," he informed her, "with plenty of milk and sugar. Also you must stir it with your finger to see that it isn't too hot.
In fact, something like alarm and despondency had been caused amongst all concerned especially Binks. . . . "Lord! old man," muttered his master, "here we are." Vane turned in at the gate of No. 14 and rang the bell. There was an unpleasant sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach and he nervously dried his left hand on his handkerchief.
'Come along, Queenie; there's Mrs. Vesey standing at the drawing-room window waving to us. We must not keep her waiting. Can't you leave your doll-people in the boat, dear? Binks will see that the dogs don't worry them to bits. 'Ay, ay! That I will, missy. Bless 'em both, they're picters, they two, as taut and trig as you please.
At the bottom of the stairs he paused again, once more he counted, and then said to himself, "Friday, and I've taken five letters to her this week, and brought five back, and and I thought I was smarter'n Lucien. Dang it, all the men are going crazy together." The real awakening of William to the sterling qualities of Lucien Torrance came with the Binks' knitting factory fire.
'That just reminds me I've brought a note for Mrs. Vesey from Theo. I'll run up to the house with it. I don't remember if it wants an answer; but don't you go away, Alick. Wait for me! 'All right! Alick nodded, and swinging himself up on the wall, he watched Binks, who was patiently pottering over the carrot-beds.
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