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"I suppose I must go now," said Geoff, looking at his watch; "but I shall see you again before I leave. I'll come in to-morrow after I've met my man." "All right," said Phil; "I won't go out till you come." "Oh, pray don't feel obliged to stay in. I can't at all tell when I shall be able to get through with the fellow." "Come to dinner if you can," suggested Clover.
"My, Spike, I'll trouble you for the butter-dish thanks!" and turning away, Ravenslee busied himself at the table, whistling softly the while. "But, Geoff, this is Bud!" cried the lad, glancing from one to the other in an agony of suspense. "Oh, don' ye know dis is Bud M'Ginnis?" "Ah, still here, is he?" said Ravenslee, without looking round.
Little Geoff found himself alone in Mrs. Warrender's room. She had taken him there with much kindness and many tender words, and made a little nest for him upon the sofa. "Lie down and try to go to sleep," she said, stooping to kiss him, a caress which half pleased, half irritated, Geoff.
Lady Markland is quite well, and my Lord Markland, for I suppose it was he who was meant by your and " "Geoff, poor little fellow! he is at school, I suppose." "Not a bit of it," said Warrender, with an ugly smile. "He is delicate, you know. He has had measles or something, and has come home to his mother to be nursed.
"Who said anything about being whipped?" said Uncle Geoff. We hesitated. "I don't quite know," I said. "Mrs. Partridge said we should have a very strict nurse, and I don't know how it was the boys thought she'd whip them." Uncle Geoff looked rather grave again. "I must go," he said.
They are perfect dears, there's no doubt as to that, and they don't consider anything a trouble which helps along a friend or a friend's friend. It's a matter of course over here." "Well, I don't consider it a matter of course at all. I think it extraordinary, and it was so very nice in Geoff to send word to Lion." Then they parted.
I stooped down on the floor and poked about till I found the little round hole where the spark had fallen. "There," I said, "that's the burnt place." Uncle Geoff stooped too and examined the hole. The look on his face changed. I could almost have fancied he was going to smile. He began sniffing as if he did not understand what he smelt. "That can't have made such a smell of burning," he said.
And then there was some crying and kissing, and Geoff heard it said that they had thought it better so, to avoid all fuss and trouble, and that it had taken place in town five days ago. To him no further explanations were made, but he seemed to understand it as well as the most grown-up person among them all.
"Our nice Captain Drewson going away!" Evadne exclaimed, aghast. "Why, dearest, he is one of our oldest friends!" "The law of progression, Vad darling." "How I hate it!" she cried, while her lips trembled. "Why can't we just live on in the old happy way? You will be going next, Geoff, and the Hamiltons and the Vandervoorts. Does nothing last?"
Ravenslee dutifully paid, marvelling that so much might be bought for so little. "I guess that's about all the fixings you'll need, Geoff!" said Spike, as they elbowed their way along the busy avenue. "Well," answered Mr. Ravenslee, as he filled his pipe, "it will certainly take me some time to wear 'em out especially those shirts!" "They sure are dandies, Geoff!
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