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After all, if you know, you know; if you don't, you don't." "I know nothing," said Clayton, "except what the poor devil let out last night." "Well, anyhow," said Sanderson, and placed his churchwarden very carefully upon the shelf over the fireplace. Then very rapidly he gesticulated with his hands. "So?" said Clayton, repeating. "So," said Sanderson, and took his pipe in hand again.
The old man sat on his accustomed bench outside the Cauliflower. A generous measure of beer stood in a blue and white jug by his elbow, and little wisps of smoke curled slowly upward from the bowl of his churchwarden pipe.
He corrected himself, blushing as he did so, though why he should blush was not known to Reuben. "Understand me rightly," he said: "the church-warden proposed it to me, but I had thought myself of getting Miss Day to play." "Which churchwarden might that be who proposed her, sir? excusing my common way."
She climbed over the board, groped along the dusky passage, pushed open a door and looked in on the kitchen, where, amid clouds of vapour, Mrs. Mayow and her daughter Cherry were washing the children. Each had a tub and a child in it; and three children, already washed, skipped around the floor stark naked, one with a long churchwarden pipe blowing bubbles which the other two pursued.
"And their father is churchwarden!" said the indignant woman. "Really, William, this is too much without even consulting you! But it is easy to see how that comes about.
She managed to convey to him without hurting his aged feelings or overwhelming him with embarrassment that if he preferred a clean churchwarden or his old briarwood, he need not feel obliged to smoke the new pipe. He could regard it as a trophy. Now, how did she do that without filling him with fright and confusion, lest she might think him not sufficiently grateful for her present?
"Be that as it may," said the ladylike creature. Do you suppose the sheep will be allowed to hear the trial of the goats, or will the court be cleared? I must say I should be so interested to hear the defence of the late churchwarden who eloped with " "Ah, please, please," said Lady Arabel, "don't talk in that dretful way. Don't let your mind dwell on the worst.
She'll go to sleep after supper, and I can open any door in the saloon, as you know, don't you, old man?" and he laughed coarsely. "Dear, dear, what times we have had together, Louis, my esteemed churchwarden of Darling Point, Sydney!" The Dane tugged at his beard, and then poured out some brandy for himself and his fellow scoundrel. "We have, we have, Sam," he said, uneasily.
The gentleman from London noted these items with a cynical smile. He had instinctively removed his hat; it is just possible that there was another side to this man's life a side wherein he dealt with men who were not openly villains. He may have been a churchwarden at home. "Clever beggars!" he ejaculated, "they were ready for every emergency."
The popular state of mind seems to be typified in the well- known anecdote of the cautious churchwarden, who, whilst commending the general tendency of his incumbents sermon, felt bound to hazard a protest upon one point. You see, sir, as he apologetically explained, I think there be a God. He thought it an error of taste or perhaps of judgment, to hint a doubt as to the first article of the creed.
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