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The pile had grown or so it seemed to Cai and blocked out more of the daylight than ever. "Won't you step up? You'll be kindly welcome." "I was told I should find him here." Cai, on requesting Mrs Bowldler that morning to inform him how soon Captain Hunken would be finishing breakfast, had been met with the information that Captain Hunken had breakfasted an hour before, and gone out.
And in the meantime we three have got to sit tight an' watch for an openin' to teach 'em that their little hands were never made. No talkin' outside, mind!" "As if I should!" protested Mrs Bowldler, and added thoughtfully, "I often wonder what happens to widows." "They marry again, mostly." "I mean up there on the Beautiful Shore, so to speak.
But by dint of steady attendance at the midsummer auctions they had since done wonders. Such small accidents, however, are a part of the fun of house-furnishing. On the whole our two friends had bought judiciously, and now looking around them, could say that their experiment had hitherto prospered; that, so far, the world was kind. But Mrs Bowldler was a treasure.
Nor did it occur to his mind that, overnight, Mrs Bowldler had point-blank refused to lay another meal in the room inhabited by the parrot, until, descending to 'Bias's parlour and becoming aware, as he lifted the teapot, that the room was brighter and sunnier than usual, he cast a glance toward the window. The parrot-cage no longer darkened it. Parrot and cage, in fact, were gone.
"It's odd now; but I've always regarded that parrot as rather a dull bird: though of course I've never hinted that to 'Bias to Captain Hunken." "He wasn't dull this afternoon," asseverated Mrs Bowldler. "Oh, not by any manner of means!" "Has he ever er annoyed you in this way before?" "Never, sir." "Has the boy ever heard him use er this kind o' language?"
And afterwards the guests" Mrs Bowldler threw withering scorn into the word "the guests is to adjourn to Captain Hunken's summer-house or what not, there to partake of supper. And if I'm asked to wait, sir," she concluded, "I must beg to give notice on the grounds that I'm only flesh and blood." "O oh!" said Captain Cai reflectively.
"Which," explained Mrs Bowldler with a glance at Palmerston, "I had to lodge a complaint with Captain Hocken yesterday relative to its conversation, and he must have spoken about it; for Captain Hunken went out at eight o'clock taking the bird with him, cage and all, and when he came back they were minus." Fancy pondered. "What did the parrot say?" she asked. "You mustn't ask, my dear.
"What in the world's happened?" demanded Fancy the first to arrive. "There was a man!" Mrs Bowldler ran her eyes over her protectors and turned them, with a slow shudder, towards the window. "I seen him distinctly. It sent my blood all of a cream." "A man? What was he doing?" they asked. "He was a-looking in boldly through the window . . ." Mrs Bowldler covered her face with her hands. "Well?"
"Where does he come from?" The boy glanced at Fancy in a helpless way. Fancy was prompt. "'Twould save time wouldn't it? now that you've seen Mrs Bowldler, if she went round an' had a look at the house?" "Which I trust," said Mrs Bowldler, "it would not be required of me to sleep in a nattic.
It occurred to him that 'Bias had hit on a compromise with some tact. For the moment he was not thinking of Mrs Bowldler, and did not grasp the full meaning of her ultimatum. She repeated it. "Tut tut," said he. "Who wants you to wait table against your will? The boy'll do well enough." "Which," said Mrs Bowldler, "I have took the opportunity of sounding Palmerston, and he offers no objection."
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