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Updated: September 12, 2025
"Then, we'll blaze away and let the beggars have it all together," yelled out `old Hankey Pankey, raising himself up in some wonderful sort of way on the top of the tree stump, for he could not stand on his legs; and, taking off his cap and waving it round his head thrice, he gave out the words, "One two three, Fire!"
I know if the Lord had seen fit to stop me from keeping company with Hankey, not a brass farthing would he ever have had from me. I'd sooner have left my savings to charity." "Don't say that, Mrs. Hankey; it always seems so lonely to leave money to charity, as if you was nothing better than a foundling. But how did you enjoy the sermon this morning?"
Herbert imagined, about Christopher and Felicia, the tongues of Sedgehill were all agog on the subject of the evident attachment between Elisabeth Farringdon and the master of the Moat House. "I'm afeared as our Miss Elisabeth is keeping company with that Mr. Tremaine; I am indeed," Mrs. Bateson confided to her crony, Mrs. Hankey. Mrs. Hankey, as was her wont, groaned both in spirit and in person.
Bateson, however, had broad views on some matters. "I don't see much harm in reading the Commandments," she said. Mrs. Hankey looked shocked at her friend's laxity. "It is the thin end of the wedge, Mrs. Bateson, and you ought to know it.
Bateson, with tears in her eyes. Mrs. Hankey sighed. "It is the sweetest flowers that are the readiest for transplanting to the Better Land," she said; and once again Christopher hated her. But Elisabeth was engrossed in the matter in hand. "What would he like?" she persisted "a new toy, or a book, or jam and cake?"
And the jet trimming on her Sunday frock is something beautiful." "Eh! there's nothing like a bit of jet for setting off crape and bringing the full meaning out of it, as you may say," replied Mrs. Hankey, in mollified tones. "I don't think as you can do full justice to crape till you put some jet again' it.
Hankey, with reproach in her tone; "he thought that the unmarried women minded the things of the Lord better than the married ones." "Saint Paul didn't know much about the subject, and how could he be expected to, being only a bachelor himself, poor soul?
In the following pages it is proposed only to give an outline of his life, and particularly the earlier and therefore to the public unknown parts. Donald Hankey was born at Brighton in 1884; he was the seventh child of his parents, and was welcomed with excitement and delight by a ready-made family of three brothers and two sisters living on his arrival amongst them.
As since the making of this will Richard had lost his faculties, the whole responsibility of finding the lost heir and of looking after the temporary heiress devolved upon Christopher's shoulders. "And how is Mr. Bateson to-day?" asked Mrs. Hankey of Mr. Bateson's better-half, one Sunday morning not long after Miss Farringdon's death. "Thank you, Mrs.
It must have been pretty lively for the Arabs: too warm after a bit to be pleasant! So `old Hankey Pankey' appeared to think; and, when our guns had fired about a couple of rounds each all round, the bugle sounded the `cease fire, and he came aft and hailed us.
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