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His wife appeared at noon with slices of bread and butter for the Cadgelings, to which was added a cold beefsteak and a bucket of beer for the support of their house. Having already lunched at home, she was permitted to lay a tier of heavier stones along the wall while waiting for her family to finish the repast. It was an arduous day for the tribe of Cadge, excepting, of course, its head.
"Oh, you don't know Cadge," sighed Kitty, "if you think she'd be jarred by her own wedding. But we must do something. Everybody's here and waiting. Sing, Helen, won't you? Oh, do sing." Helen had not joined in the rapid conversation. Now she smiled assent with stately compliance.
It can't be sure beauty to be up there; I've seen some of 'em. Say now; that's not so bad 'How to be Helen; in Twenty Lessons. Or say, Princess; answer the great question: 'Does Soap Hurt the Skin?" She grinned. Cadge fancies, I suppose, that by any mail I may get a big check from home. "You display almost human intelligence," said Pros, admiringly; "stage's better, though." "But, Mr.
Or even even without him, letting him go, if just you and I Come!" They walked to and fro in embrace: "Dear, our front drawing-room, so ruined, you know, by that shell, last year " "Ah, the front? no! The behine, yes, with those two hole' of the shell and with thad beegue hole in the floor where it cadge fiah."
"The dear boy does so enjoy talking nonsense," Cadge explained indulgently. "In ordinary business," Reid went on, "pretty women are only employed as lures for men. Swell milliners have 'em to overawe with their great grieving eyes the Hubbies who're inclined to kick at market rates for bonnets. Now there's dry goods, chief theme of half the race.
I threw down the sheet, quivering with anger. I felt that I should never again dare look at a paper; but half an hour later I sent Boy out to buy them all, and, locked into my room, I shook all about me a snowstorm of bulky supplements and magazines. Having posed for Cadge, I knew, of course, that the Star would print my picture, perhaps several of them.
"Ho! that's your game is it?" snarled Cadge, gasping with indignation. "That's 'ow you two plot against a poor 'ard-workin' man with a family, to beat him out of 'is pay. H'it's a put-up job, that's wot h'it is! But you don't get the best of Tom Cadge that way. I'll 'ave a h'orficer 'ere if I don't get my money, you bloomin' old plotters, you!" "Yes, you had better call an officer," agreed Mr.
Then the preparation of a Bush trousseau needed thought and discussion. She had not much money, either, to buy her trousseau with. Bridget would have none of Sir Luke's suggestions of conciliatory letters and cablegrams to Eliza Lady Gaverick on the subject of settlements. She said she did not intend to cadge any longer upon her rich relative, and that she preferred to marry without settlements.
Cadge wondered whether she, too, was to have a vacation, after her years of drudgery. Cadge worked furiously, his rage uncooled by the waters of the Catnip which flowed through his shoes. He had discarded coat, vest, and hat, and was hurling rocks with the strength of a maddened giant, clear across the stream. What splendid muscles he had! A tier or two of Mrs. Pipkin's wall was already down.
It was as if in the few days since they had seen her for the new comers were Kitty's brother and the Miss Bryant of whom everyone speaks as "Cadge" Helen's beauty had so blossomed that at fresh sight of her they struggled with incredulous amazement almost as a stranger might have done.
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