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At the end of half an hour Ethelbertha retired from the contest, hot, dirty, and a trifle irritable. The fireplace retained the same cold, cynical expression with which it had greeted our entrance. Then I tried. I honestly tried my best. I was eager and anxious to succeed. For one reason, I wanted my breakfast. For another, I wanted to be able to say that I had done this thing.
Ethelbertha and I carried out our part of the programme, and waited, with the deck to ourselves. "They seem to be taking their time," said Ethelbertha. "If, in the course of fourteen days," I said, "they eat half of what is on this yacht, they will want a fairly long time for every meal. We had better not hurry them, or they won't get through a quarter of it."
"What's it got to do with them?" demanded Ethelbertha. "I'm not thinking about them," I said. "What I look at is " "I don't like her," said Ethelbertha. "I don't like any of them." "But " She didn't seem to be listening. "I know that class of man," she said; "and the wife appears, if anything, to be worse. As for the girl " "When you come to know them " I said.
By this time, Ethelbertha had taken a dislike to the yacht; she said that, personally, she would rather be spending a week in a bathing machine, seeing that a bathing machine was at least steady. We passed another day in Harwich, and that night and the next, the wind still continuing in the south, we slept at the "King's Head." On Friday the wind was blowing direct from the east.
From him Dick will learn all that can be learnt about farming. The selection, I felt, demanded careful judgment." "But will Dick stick to it?" Ethelbertha wondered. "There, again," I pointed out to her, "the choice was one calling for exceptional foresight.
It is ever the good and amiable who suffer in this world. I had wasted more time than I had intended in the paddock, and when Ethelbertha came to tell me it was half-past seven, and the breakfast was on the table, I remembered that I had not shaved. It vexes Ethelbertha my shaving quickly.
I suppose one ought to be glad that one has saved somebody's life; but I should like to have the choosing of them myself. I am not sure that Ethelbertha is going to like Mrs. St. Leonard; and I don't think Mrs. St. Leonard will much like Ethelbertha. I have gathered that Mrs. St. Leonard doesn't like anybody much except, of course, when it is her duty. She does not seem to have the time.
"I should say you were suffering from a mild attack of D.T. when you saw all that," said MacShaugnassy. "So I might have thought myself," I said; "but Ethelbertha was with me at the time, and she saw it too. We stared after the procession until it had turned the corner, and then we stared at each other. "'Oh, it's impossible, said Ethelbertha to me. "'But that was my hat, I said to Ethelbertha.
"I don't see how any girl could as hadn't got the digestion of an ostrich." Ethelbertha looked puzzled. "But what has digestion got to do with it?" she asked. "A pretty good deal, mum," answered Amenda, "when you're thinking of marrying a man as can't make a sausage fit to eat."
"Oh yes," said Amenda, "I loved him right enough, but it's no good loving a man that wants you to live on sausages that keep you awake all night." "But does he want you to live on sausages?" persisted Ethelbertha. "Oh, he doesn't say anything about it," explained Amenda; "but you know what it is, mum, when you marry a pork butcher; you're expected to eat what's left over.
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