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Updated: September 12, 2025
Bateson commented with such unseemly cheerfulness upon Christopher's encouraging appearance, it was but consistent of Mrs. Hankey to shake her head. "You can never tell," she replied "never; often them that looks the best feels the worst; and many's the time I've seen folks look the very picture of health just before they was took with a mortal illness."
Hankey," agreed her hostess; "the very best of them don't properly know the difference between their souls and their stomachs; and they fancy that they are a-wrestling with their doubts, when really it is their dinners that are a-wrestling with them.
Mark my words, she'll never do better, taking him all round, than Master Christopher." Mrs. Hankey sighed. "I only hope she'll find it out before it is too late, and he is either laid in an early grave or else married to a handsomer woman, as the case may be, and both ways out of her reach. But I doubt it.
This made assurance a certainty, every man-jack of the crew being cock- a-hoop with excitement, when, after a lot of signalling between the two cruisers, and the Merlin's gig bringing her captain alongside, he being junior to `old Hankey Pankey, the two of us sailed off in company just before sunset.
Sandys, but beneath her were the two rooms of Hankey, the postman, and his lodger, the dreariest of middle-aged clerks except when telling wistfully of his ambition, which was to get out of the tea department into the coffee department, where there is an easier way of counting up the figures. Shovel and family were also on this floor, and in the rooms under them was a newly married couple.
"All right, Betty; where shall we begin?" "We shall begin by making a plan. Do you know what you are going to do this afternoon?" "Yes; whatever you tell me. I always do." "Well, then, you are coming with me to have tea at Mrs. Bateson's, just as we used to do when we were little; and I have told her to invite Mrs. Hankey as well, to make it seem just the same as it used to be. By the way, is Mrs.
I haven't much to be thankful for, I'm sure, for the Lord has tried me sore, giving me Hankey as a husband, and such a poor appetite as I never enjoy a meal from one year's end to another; but one thing I can boast of, and that is my babies were all fair, with as clear a skin as you could want to see.
And his father is just the same; if you take your eye off him for a minute he is bound to be in some mischief or another." "There's no denying that husbands is troublesome, Mrs. Hankey, and sons is worse; but all the same I stand up for 'em both, and I wish Miss Elisabeth had got one of the one and half a dozen of the other.
The bluejackets and marines belonging to the admiral's division then rejoined their ships at Mombassa; while our contingent, led still by `old Hankey Pankey, who was none the worse for the fray, retraced their steps through Teita and the `baboon valley' where, I may add, I met no second mishap to Malindi.
Still I kept my ears open all the same; and when, the next morning, I met the captain's steward returning from the galley with a cup of early cocoa for `old Hankey Pankey, and he told me that he thought we were going to be busy soon, the `old man' having directed him to take out his sword and pistols, and give them to his marine servant to be cleaned up, I began, as `Gyp' did that time on board the Saint Vincent, `to smell a rat.
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