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I can offer no better apology for what I have said; and I can only regret that I have made so unsatisfactory a return for your flattering confidence in me." Having planted her sting, she rose to retire. "Have you any further commands for me?" she asked. "I should like to be quite sure that I have not misunderstood you," said Mrs. Gallilee. "You consider Mr.
Gallilee decided that not one farthing would be left to help her to pay debts, which were steadily increasing with every new concession that she made to the claims of society. Young Mrs. Ovid Vere, at the head of a household, would have the grand example of her other aunt before her eyes.
He spoke so fervently that the women all looked at him in surprise. Mrs. Gallilee turned to her niece, and proceeded quietly with what she had to say. "Ovid is so sadly overworked, my dear, that I actually rejoice in his giving up practice, and going away from us to-morrow. We will leave you for the present with your old friend. Pray ring, if you want anything."
On those rare former occasions, when Mrs. Gallilee had been ill, her attentive husband never left it to the servants to consult her wishes. That time had gone by for ever. "Tell your mistress, Joseph, that Mr. Le Frank is here." The slander on which Mrs. Gallilee had reckoned, as a means of separating Ovid and Carmina, was now a slander refuted by unanswerable proof.
A clerk presented to him a slip of paper, with a line written by Mr. Mool: "Is it anything of importance?" Simple Mr. Gallilee wrote back: "Oh, dear, no; it's only me! I'll call again." Besides his critical judgment in the matter of champagne, this excellent man possessed another accomplishment a beautiful handwriting. Mr.
He slapped his forehead, and he said, 'Ah, merciful Heaven, cock and bacon again! You won't mention it, will you? and perhaps you think as I do? I'm sick of cock and bacon, myself." Mr. Null's medical orders still prescribed fresh air. The carriage came to the door at the regular hour; and Mr. Gallilee, with equal regularity, withdrew to his club.
When a man's out of temper, and a woman wants something of him, do you know how cleverly she can take advantage of her privileges to aggravate him, till there's nothing he won't do to get her to leave him in peace? That's how I came to tell Mrs. Gallilee, what she told you." He waited a little, and comforted himself with his pipe.
"I've had so many of them," she said; "I don't know. Ask Maria." Maria responded with the sweetest readiness. "Dear Zoe, you are so slow! Cheesecakes." Mr. Gallilee patted Zoe's head as encouragingly as if she had discovered the right answer by herself. "That's right ices and cheese-cakes," he said. "We tried cream-ice, and then we tried water-ice.
Moreover, he looked excessively confused when the footman discovered him. That night, he was late in returning from the club. Punctual to her time, on the next morning, the new governess arrived. Mrs. Gallilee received her, and sent for the children. The maid in charge of them appeared alone. She had no doubt that the young ladies would be back directly.
As it was, Mr. Gallilee returned late in the afternoon; entered his own domain of the smoking-room; and left the house again five minutes afterwards. Joseph officiously opened the door for him; and Joseph was surprised, precisely as his mistress had been surprised. Mr. Gallilee had a large brown paper parcel under his arm the second which he had taken out of the house with his own hands!
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