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Half the flowers had lost their color in the extending shadow of the house before Mr. and Mrs. Druitt drove away. The higgler's pony groaned between the shafts of a cart that was much too big for him; rice and old shoes struck the wheels; Mrs. Goudie made her last joke; the men at the yard gate shouted; Norah and the children ran a little way along the road and then the party was over.
I'll be true to her, if she'll be true to me." Then he rose, and smiling sheepishly, once more addressed Mrs. Dale. "The purpose of my call this morning was to say I shall have some good bacon next week." Mavis refused the bacon, and Dale said a few words of stern rebuke. "I can tell you, Mr. Druitt, I take a very poor opinion of your manhood and proper feeling."
His arrival now broke up the breakfast party, and was accepted as a signal that the day's labors must really be attacked. Mrs. Goudie and Mary pushed back their chairs with a horrid scrooping noise, Mavis got up briskly, the baby awoke and began to cry. "No, thank you, Mr. Druitt. Nothing this morning." "I've some sweet-hearted cabbages outside." "No, thank you."
Its chief value lies in the very complete picture which it gives of English import and export trade with the various European countries. G.W. Morris and L.S. Wood, The Golden Fleece , p. 17. For accounts of these brasses see H. Druitt, A Manual of Costume as Illustrated by Monumental Brasses , pp. 9, 201, 205, 207, 253.
Dale; and to act nice and in that she'll have an example under her eyes, for I mean to act uncommon nice to her." When, winking and bowing, he resumed his seat by Mary's side, the applause from the bottom of the table was vociferous. "Brayvo. He hev a said it smart. Never 'eard it better worded. Well done, Mr. Druitt."
"It's seven years," he went on, "since Doctor Hollin said to me, 'I have to warn you Mrs. Druitt isn't going to make old bones. However, we find it a long job. There's a proverb, isn't there? Creaking doors!" Mavis was inexpressibly shocked. "How can you talk of your wife so? Have you no feelings for her?" "Mrs.
A convenient introduction to the study of monumental brasses, with illustrations and a list of all the surviving brasses in England, arranged according to counties, is W. Macklin, Monumental Brasses . See also H. Druitt, Costume on Brasses . These books also give details as to the famous early writers on the subject, such as Weaver, Holman, and A.J. Dunkin.
"Good mornin', mum," said the visitor, diffidently. "Would you be doing with an egg or so?" Mr. Druitt had been introduced by Mrs. Goudie as the higgler, or itinerant poulterer and greengrocer, who served the house in Mr. Bates' time. He was a thin middle-aged man, with light watery eyes, a straggling beard, and an astoundingly dilatory manner.
A few minutes more, and Lord Hartledon and his care went out. Mr. Carr called in his clerk. "I want to know how you came to learn that the man I asked you about, Gordon, was employed by Kedge and Reck?" "I heard it through a man named Druitt," was the ready answer.
Then Mavis interposed to check her husband. The fact was, she felt baffled by the situation and utterly at a loss as to what would be the best way of dealing with it. Whatever one might think of Mr. Druitt one's self, there was Mary to be considered. What would ultimately be best for her? The man was warm; and Mary, who was not growing younger, said she liked him.
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