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What they add to their incomes I do not know, but it cannot be very much, and the trouble they have to take is colossal. Nobody loves them, and they must see it; yet they persevere. Glossop, for instance, had been trying to buttonhole me every time there was a five minutes' break in the day's work. He had his chance now, and he did not mean to waste it.
Didn't I say, 'Providence will provide'?" "Why sure as you live, so you did! I had forgotten it." "So had I," said Mrs. Glossop and Mrs. Taylor; "but you certainly said it. Now wasn't that remarkable?" "Yes, I said it. And then we went to Mr.
Mr Abney greeted the information with a prodigious sneeze. 'What do you bead? he demanded, when the paroxysm was over. He turned to me. 'Bister Burds, I understood you to ah say that the scou'drels took their departure without the boy Ford. 'They certainly did. I watched them go. 'I have searched the house thoroughly, said Glossop, 'and there are no signs of him.
There was a noble fire burning in the grate, and the darkness lit by the glow of the coals, the dripping of the rain, the good behaviour of my pipe, and the reflection that, as I sat there, Glossop was engaged downstairs in wrestling with my class, combined to steep me in a meditative peace. Audrey was playing the piano in the drawing-room. The sound came to me faintly through the closed doors.
I was therefore delighted when one morning I received an invitation from Lord and Lady Howard of Glossop, to stay with them for some weeks at Dorlin, their remote Highland home. Dorlin, which had been bought by Lord Howard from his connection, Mr.
Glossop came up at a gallop, springing from stair to stair like the chamois of the Alps. 'We must telephone for the police! he cried. 'I have telephoned, said Audrey, 'ten minutes ago. They are sending some men at once. Mr Glossop, was Ogden Ford in your classroom? 'No, Mrs Sheridan. I thought he was with you, Burns. I shook my head. 'Those men came to kidnap him, Mr Glossop, said Audrey.
After some further talk, Captain von Mueller and Captain Glossop disappeared over the side of the Sylph, and put off toward the Sydney. Before either vessel proceeded on its way, several further messages were exchanged between the commanders of the Sydney and the Sylph; but at length the Sydney began to draw away toward the east.
At least, I straightened my tie and smiled one of those inscrutable smiles of mine. I then withdrew and went out for a saunter in the garden. And the first chap I ran into was young Tuppy. His brow was furrowed, and he was moodily bunging stones at a flowerpot. I think I have told you before about young Tuppy Glossop.
Mounser Green has consented to be expatriated for the good of his country." "You going to Patagonia!" said Currie. "You're chaffing," said Glossop. "I never was so shot in my life," said Hoffmann. "It's true, my dear boys." "I never was so sorry for anything in all my born days," said Glossop, almost crying. "Why on earth should you go to Patagonia?" "Patagonia!" ejaculated Currie.
"It's bound to work. I've recommended it to Tuppy." "Young Glossop?" "In order to soften Angela." "Splendid!" "And to Gussie Fink-Nottle, who wants to make a hit with the Bassett." "Well, well, well! What a busy little brain it is." "Always working, Aunt Dahlia, always working." "You're not the chump I took you for, Bertie." "When did you ever take me for a chump?" "Oh, some time last summer.
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