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Gordon lifted his head several times very quickly, as if to say, 'What next? and then actually departed, which was a clear proof that the man had no imagination and no soul. The gooseherd winked. 'You be rightly called "Curtenty," mester, said he, and passed into the Tiger. 'That's the best joke I ever heard, Jos said to himself 'I wonder whether he saw it.
The Town Council duly met in special conclave, and Josiah Topham Curtenty became Mayor of Bursley. Shortly after Christmas it was announced that the Mayor and Mayoress had decided to give a New Year's treat to four hundred poor old people in the St. Luke's covered market.
Curtenty had, unfortunately, not reckoned with this diurnal phenomenon; he had not thought upon the undesirability of being under compulsion to drive geese by the sole illumination of gas-lamps lighted by Corporation gas. After this disasters multiplied. Dark and the rain had transformed the farce into something else.
'He says he's just been appointed Governor of East Australia announcement 'll be in to-morrow's papers and so he must regretfully resign the mayoralty. Says he'll pay the fine, but of course we shall have to remit that by special resolution of the Council. 'Well, I'm damned! Josiah exclaimed. 'Topham! Mrs. Curtenty remonstrated, but with a delightful acquitting dimple.
She had a big mouth and very wide nostrils, and her years were thirty-five. It was no matter; it would have been no matter had she been a hundred and thirty-five. In short.... Clara Curtenty wore tight-fitting black silk, with a long gold chain that descended from her neck nearly to her waist, and was looped up in the middle to an old-fashioned gold brooch.
By instinct he knew Bursley, and he knew that he would be talked of. He knew that, for a time at any rate, he would displace even Jos Curtenty, that almost professional "card" and amuser of burgesses, in the popular imagination. It would not be: "Have ye heard Jos's latest?" It would be: "Have ye heard about young Machin, Duncalf's clerk?"
Curtenty named a sum startlingly less, ending in sixpence. 'I'll tak' it, said the gooseherd, in a tone that closed on the bargain like a vice. The Deputy-Mayor perceived himself the owner of twelve geese and two ganders one Brent, one Barnacle. It was a shock, but he sustained it. Involuntarily he looked at Mr. Gordon.
Josiah Curtenty would wear the mayoral chain of Bursley immediately, and added as its own private opinion that, in default of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chell and his Countess, no better 'civic heads' could have been found than Mr. Curtenty and his charming wife. So far the tone of the Signal was unimpeachable.
'Ask him in here, Mary, said the Deputy-Mayoress sweetly; 'and bring another cup and saucer. Mr. Duncalf was the Town Clerk of Bursley: legal, portly, dry, and a little shy. 'I won't stop, Curtenty. How d'ye do, Mrs. Curtenty? No, thanks, really But she, smiling, exquisitely gracious, flattered and smoothed him into a chair. 'Any interesting news, Mr.
It would have been useless to point out that if the inimitable Jos had not been called to the mayoralty the episode of the geese would have passed as a gorgeous joke; that everyone had been vastly amused by it until that desolating issue of the Signal announced the Earl's retirement; that Jos Curtenty could not possibly have foreseen what was about to happen; and that, anyhow, goosedriving was less a crime than a social solecism, and less a social solecism than a brilliant eccentricity.
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