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Updated: May 6, 2025
Now I'm as sure as I am of anything that it's all lies. I don't believe Mr. Gammon has insulted her. There was something happened before she left Mrs. Bubb's a bit of unpleasantness there's no need to talk about; but I'm as sure as I sit here, Ebenezer, that Mr. Gammon wouldn't insult any girl in the way Polly says." "Why don't you ask him?" Mrs. Clover glanced at the door and betrayed uneasiness.
But I have taken a little trouble, etc. As a matter of friendship no? Then we'll drop the subject. By the by have you a black-and-tan to dispose of?" He passed into a vein so chatty and so amiable that Gammon began to repent of distrusting him. Besides, his information might be really valuable and could not easily be obtained in any other way.
She was standing on the front verandah as the children came up the lawn. "Why, we're not late, Brownie, are we?" asked Norah. "Not very." The old housekeeper smiled at her. "Only when your Pa's away I allers feels a bit nervis about you sech thoughtless young people, an' all them animals and snakes about!" "Gammon!" said Jim laughing. "D'you mean to say I can't look after them, Brownie?"
Clover, her uncle himself as distinct from Lord Polperro, was also dead and gone and done for. Gammon knew of the design and strongly favoured it, for he was annoyed by Mrs. Clover's false position; he wished her to be proclaimed a widow, without the necessity of disagreeable revelations.
Tired of futile questioning Gammon resolved to wait and see what was done, though it seemed to him more than likely that nothing at all would come of these vehement expressions. At all events Lord Polperro was now wide awake, and seemed in no danger of relapsing into the semi-comatose or semi-delirious condition.
Two are carriers, one of whom has "a gammon of bacon and two razes of ginger, to be delivered as far as Charing Cross;" the other has his panniers full of turkeys. There is also a franklin of Kent, and another, "a kind of auditor," probably a tax-collector, with several more, forming in all a company of eight or ten, who travel together for mutual protection.
PEAS PUDDING. Soak the peas an hour or two before they are boiled; and when nearly done, beat them up with salt and pepper, an egg, and a bit of butter. Tie it up in a cloth, and boil it half an hour. PEAS SOUP. Save the liquor of boiled pork or beef: if too salt, dilute it with water, or use fresh water only, adding the bones of roast beef, a ham or gammon bone, or an anchovy or two.
He waited thirty seconds, thinking it was five minutes, then went to the door, rang, and entered. "Who came in just now, miss?" "The gentleman for the young lydy, sir." "By jorrocks!" Gammon mounted the stairs at break-neck speed and burst into the private sitting-room.
Never mind, go up to him, if you will, and see what he wants with you." Gammon did her bidding. He ascended lightly and tapped at the door Mrs. Clover indicated. A cough sounded from within; then a voice which the visitor recognized, saying, "Come in." On the bed, but fully dressed, lay a tall, meagre man, with a woollen comforter about his neck.
"There, Mas' Gammon; and why you sh'd play at 'do believe' and at 'don't believe, after that awesome scene, the solem'est of life's, when you did declare to me, sayin', it was a stride for boots out o' London this morning. Your words, Mas' Gammon! and 'boots'-=it's true, if by that alone!
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