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Updated: June 4, 2025
As they had felt rather chilly on their bus-ride that evening, the four young people all came into the library upon their return, and drew their chairs up to the tiny grate. Betty and John had greatly enjoyed this new experience, for they had been truly English.
She came, reluctantly so she said, to the bookstall at Charing Cross station, but only to tell him that she could not do as he wished her to do. She would take tea with him for this once, but it was useless to ask her to go for a walk with him or for a 'bus-ride either, and she certainly would not dine with him nor would she go to a theatre.
My excursion bore the same relation to their country as a 'bus-ride down the Strand bears to London, so I knew how they felt. The excuse is that our own flesh and blood are more interesting than anybody else, and I held by birth the same right in them and their lives as they held in any other part of the Empire.
Stokes grinned and, meeting a freezing glance from his friend, at once became serious again. "Why not say it was you?" he said stoutly. "There's no harm in going for a 'bus-ride with a friend and a couple o' ladies." "O' course there ain't," said the other, hotly, "else I shouldn't ha' done it. But you know what my wife is." Mr.
"The sea is all right for some things," ses Ginger at last, "but suppose a man married!" The gal shook her 'ead. "It would be hard on 'is wife," she ses, with another little look at 'im, "but but " Ginger pinched 'er elbow agin. "But p'r'aps he could get a job ashore," she ses, "and then he could take his wife out for a bus-ride every day."
Stokes grinned and, meeting a freezing glance from his friend, at once became serious again. "Why not say it was you?" he said stoutly. "There's no harm in going for a 'bus-ride with a friend and a couple o' ladies." "O' course there ain't," said the other, hotly, "else I shouldn't ha' done it. But you know what my wife is." Mr.
"The sea is all right for some things," ses Ginger at last, "but suppose a man married!" The gal shook her 'ead. "It would be hard on 'is wife," she ses, with another little look at 'im, "but but " Ginger pinched 'er elbow agin. "But p'r'aps he could get a job ashore," she ses, "and then he could take his wife out for a bus-ride every day."
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