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Updated: May 3, 2025
But one must yield to evidence. It was pierced for a great number of guns. All at once, the wind having displayed the flags, I perceived with surprise the French flag over the English flag. I communicated what I observed to Mr. Blankley. He answered immediately, "You do not surely pretend to observe better with your bad telescope than I did with my Dollond?"
She still clings to her childish belief that streaky bacon comes from feeding the pigs one day and not the next. Every one, like Mrs. Blankley, had a thirst to see something, and I was left alone with Aunt Anna, to discuss Pauline's wedding.
It is so easy to say clever, unkind things. Every one can do it if they choose; the difficulty is not to say them. It is evident that Aunt Anna chooses the harder part. Mrs. Blankley, having disposed of the fifth cup of tea, expressed a desire to see the pigs.
All these articles are much valued, particularly the indigo for dyeing woollens, for the weaving of which there is a loom in every house. According to Captain Blankley, the golden age would seem to be revived in this part of the world.
Blankley, arrived in great haste, announcing to our Consul the entrance into the port of a French prize. "I never will uselessly add," said he, generously, "to the severities of war; I came to announce to you, my colleague, that I will give up your prisoners on a receipt which will insure me the deliverance of an equal number of Englishmen detained in France."
I went to the bell. "What are you doing?" asked James. "Only going to ring for some more tea," I said. "No, don't do that. I'll go down and ask for it. You don't mind using my cup, do you?" He went out of the room, and reappeared with a jug of hot water. "You see," he explained, "if Mrs. Blankley brings in another cup she'll charge for two teas instead of one." "It didn't occur to me," I said.
As a matter of fact, her solicitude on my behalf was largely due to an ambition to see a little paragraph in the newspapers, announcing that "Mr Adrian Inglethwaite, M.P., Director of the Sub-Tropical and Arctic Department at the Foreign Office, has appointed Mr Blankley Dash to be his Private Secretary." Dolly and Dilly seconded the motion.
I noticed that she looked a little less contented than usual, and that she even gave way to a gesture of impatience when Mrs. Blankley asked for a fifth cup of tea. Mrs. Blankley is a great advocate of temperance. In connection with which, Aunt Anna once said that she thought there should be temperance in all things beginning with "t."
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