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"It's Gee Gee's fault if the play is a failure," snapped Bobby. Never had the disagreeable teacher at Central High been so little liked as at this time. They blamed Miss Carrington more than they did Hester. As the party of troubled girls left the school-house on this particular afternoon, Lily Pendleton ran after them. "What do you think has happened?" she cried.
"Some of the niggers do amazing things that way," McMurtrey interposed tactfully. As with the others, this conduct of their visitor jarred on the manager. From the moment of Peter Gee's arrival that afternoon Deacon had manifested a tendency to pick on him. He had disputed his statements and been generally rude. "Maybe it's because Peter's got Chink blood in him," had been Andrews' hypothesis.
Amongst them was a street artist who lived in Gee's Court, off Oxford Street a worthless, drunken, and pretentious scoundrel, who seriously believed himself to be the most neglected man of genius in London. I employed him to repeat what he called his chief de hover on cardboard, and paid him half a crown for it.
Boulter's Rents, in my first novel, 'A Life's Atonement, were drawn from Gee's Court. I thought the picture rather like at the time, within limits; but I never had the heart or the stomach to be a realist. Feebly as I dared to paint it, I had to re-form it in fancy before the book was finished.
What with the aid of the Scripture-readers, the various nursing and charitable sisterhoods, and the young medical accoucheurs in their fourth year, with whom I scraped acquaintance, I got to be quite well known in Gee's Court and could go about in safety.
Mann is a good fellow and will not peach." "Tell us the awful truth, Bobby," drawled Jess. "What is Gee Gee's latest?" "I understand," said the younger girl, "that she has been to Mr. Sharp and begged him to exercise his authority and make us act 'Pyramus and Thisbe' instead of 'The Rose Garden." "Goodness! That old thing?" flung out Dora Lockwood.
That may have been rushing it some, but if the food supply we'd gotten was a dud, we were finished anyway. We watched the direct-view screen till the ship was lost; then followed on radar. "It's moving right along, Captain," Joyce said, "accelerating at about two gee's." "Good riddance," Clay said. "I don't like dealing with armed maniacs."
"There's Isaacs on the Dolly," Grief observed, with a hand wave of greeting. "And Peter Gee's on the Roberta. Couldn't keep him away from a pearl sale like this. And there's Francini on the Cactus. They're all here, all the buyers. Old Parlay will surely get a price." "They haven't repaired the engine yet," Captain Warfield grumbled gleefully.
It was now eleven o'clock, and by-and-by the company dispersed which they did almost simultaneously and from the stable-yard, amid a tremendous clattering of hoofs, rumbling of wheels, calls of stablemen, 'gee's' and 'woa's, buttoning of overcoats, wrapping of throats in comforters, 'good-nights, and invitations to meet again.
My acquaintance with these gentlemen led me to a somewhat familiar knowledge of Gee's Court I have not been near the place now for more than thirty years and, for aught I know to the contrary, it may long since have been wiped out of existence. But when I knew it it was an awful place, the haunt of thieves and prostitutes, the vilest offsprings of the streets of London.
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