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Five daughters, and each one found peace and a pious husband before she was five-and-twenty." "The one before last married a Churchman," said Mrs. Hankey apologetically, as if the union thus referred to were somewhat morganatic in its character, and therefore no subject for pride or congratulation. "Well, to be sure! Still, he may make her a good husband."
I should always have been expecting to see its parents' faults coming out in it so different from the peace you have with your own flesh and blood." Mrs. Hankey groaned. "Your own flesh and blood may take after their father; you never can tell." "So they may, Mrs. Hankey so they may; but, as the Scripture says, it is our duty to whip the old man out of them." "Just so.
"Because, my dear, the Lord made 'em so, and it is not for us to complain," replied Mrs. Hankey, in a tone which implied that, had the rôle of Creator been allotted to her, the idiosyncrasies of the male sex would have been much less marked than they are at present. "They've no sense, men haven't; that's what is the matter with them." "You never spoke a truer word, Mrs.
But perhaps the chief cause of the spread of immorality is the unnatural conditions under which the men are compelled to live in a foreign land in war time. Donald Hankey, the brilliant young author of "A Student in Arms," who fell at the front, speaks thus of the moral problem in the soldier's life: "Let us be frank about this.
Yet somehow, and this was the miracle, he contrived to have none of the easy unction of the pushing man of holiness who realises that if he is to succeed in accomplishing what he wants accomplished, he must assume a certain cunning suavity of manner which is really foreign to his character. Hankey had no pose.
He was not licked yet, though; for, as Larrikins stooped over him to lift him up, `old Hankey Pankey' got his arm round his neck and climbed up on to him pick-a-back, Larry highly delighted at the job, he and the captain then advancing again to the assault.
Lest the diet should be monotonous, I also got distinguished people like the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, Admiral Sir Reginald Custance, General Ian Hamilton, and Admiral Sir Reginald Hall, at that time the head of the Intelligence Department at the Admiralty. There was also Sir Maurice Hankey, the Belgian Minister, the American Ambassador, Mr.
I should say that satin is worth five-and-six a yard if it is worth a penny. And I call it a sin and a shame to have a dirty green parrot sitting on your shoulder when you're wearing satin like that. If she'd had any sense she'd have fed the animals before she put her best gown on." "I never could abide parrots," joined in Mrs. Hankey; "they smell so."
But, in the nick of time, when only some twenty or thirty yards off her sharp ram bow, which would have cut into the cutter as easily as a knife goes into butter in summer-time, Draper gave a tug to his steering oar; and, Captain Hankey `making a lee' for us by porting his helm, we glided into comparatively calm water under the cruiser's starboard counter.
"And that's easy enough for some of us, such as Hankey, for instance," added Hankey's better half. "And there ain't as much wisdom to look at as you could put on the point of a knife even then." So the women talked and the men listened as is the way of men and women all the world over until tea was finished and it was time for the guests to depart.
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