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George had slept late, and the hands of the marble clock marked but a few minutes of the hour of Gadgem's expected arrival, and not a moment could be lost. "Dat Gadgem man done come yere yisterday," he began, drawing out his master's chair with an extra flourish to hide his nervousness, "an' he say he's commin' ag'in dis mornin' at ten o'clock. Clar to goodness it's dat now!
Gadgem had straightened his withered body now and was boring into Harry's eyes with all his might. "Will you tell me just what he said?" The boy was still roaring, but the indignant tone was missing. "He said you will not be offended, sir you mean, of course, sir, that you would like me to state exACTly what your father said, proceeding as if I was under oath."
Temple that it is GADgem, of GADgem & Coombs and say that I will be here at ten o'clock to-morrow sharp on the minute; I am ALways on the minute in matters of this kind. Only five minutes of his time five minutes, remember " and he passed out of hearing. Todd, now duly installed as co-conspirator, opened the ball the next morning at breakfast. St.
Every old debt that could be collected and Gadgem had been a scourge and a flaming sword as the weeks went on in their gathering had been rounded up. Even his minor interests in two small ground rents had, thanks to Pawson, been cashed some years in advance.
One first-class gentleman, in reasonable repair. Could be made useful in opening and shutting doors, or in dancing attendance upon children under one year of age, or in keeping flies from bedridden folk. Apply, and so forth, Gadgem could fix it. He has done the most marvellous things in the last year or two extraordinary, really! Ask Todd about it some time he'll tell you."
He stopped and caught his breath. For a moment it seemed as if something in his throat choked his utterance. "Gadgem give me your hand! Do you know you are a gentleman and a thoroughbred! No don't speak don't explain. We understand each other. Todd, bring three glasses and hand me what is left of the old Port. And do you join us, Pawson."
Pawson to know was he in, and he was, and I done tol' him, and he's dar now. He ain't neber done sont me down dar 'cept once sence I been yere, and dat was de day dat Gadgem man come snuffin' roun'. Trouble comin'." Harry had now begun to take in the situation. It was evidently a matter of some moment or Pawson would not have been consulted.
"Then you have heard nothing of the REsuscitation!" cried Gadgem, all his fingers opened like a fan, his eyebrows arched to the roots of his hair. "You surPRISE me! And you are really ignorant of the PHOEnix-like way in which it has RISen from its ashes? I said RISen, sir, because it is now but a dim speck in the financial sky. Nor the appointment of Mr.
This, rendered into common prose, meant that Harry, after a prolonged consultation with Pawson and Gadgem, would shed his outer coat, the spring being now far advanced, blossoms out and the weather warm and that Kate would tuck her petticoats clear of her dear little feet and go pattering round, her sleeves rolled up as far as they would go, her beautiful arms bare almost to her shoulders her hair smothered in a brown barege veil to keep out the dust the most bewitching parlor-maid you or anybody else ever laid eyes on.
George recovered the piece and laid it as gently on the table beside his plate as if it had been a newly laid egg. "No, I don't think you do," he laughed, "or you wouldn't hold it upside down. Now go on and give me the rest." Gadgem emitted a chuckle the nearest he ever came to a laugh: "To have it go ON, sir, is infinitely preferable than to have it go OFF, sir. He-he!
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