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Peythroppe found to his surprise that he had been gazetted a month's leave. Don't ask me how this was managed. I believe firmly that if Mrs. Hauksbee gave the order, the whole Great Indian Administration would stand on its head. The Three Men had also a month's leave each. Peythroppe put the Gazette down and said bad words.
'I never interfere with men or women unless I am compelled, and she retired with dignity to her own room. Mrs. Hauksbee's curiosity was not long left ungratified, for Mrs. Bent came up to Simla a few days after the conversation faithfully reported above, and pervaded the Mall by her husband's side. 'Behold! said Mrs. Hauksbee, thoughtfully rubbing her nose.
Hauksbee helped him was married. Mrs. Hauksbee gave a sigh of relief when both the "I wills" had been said, and went her way. Pluffies took her advice about going Home. He left the Service, and is now raising speckled cattle inside green painted fences somewhere at Home. I believe he does this very judiciously. He would have come to extreme grief out here.
Hauksbee to her, 'and our house is much nearer to the Doctor's than the hotel, and you won't feel as though you were living in a hostile camp. Where is the dear Mrs. Waddy? She seemed to be a particular friend of yours. 'They've all left me, said Mrs. Bent bitterly. 'Mrs. Waddy went first.
Kipling's early tales, such as Mrs. Hauksbee, Strickland, Mulvaney, Ortheris, and Learoyd, are static figures. Although they do different things in different stories, their characters remain always the same.
Hauksbee stepped into the verandah and looked down upon the Mall, her forehead puckered with thought. 'Hah! said Mrs. Hauksbee shortly. 'Indeed! 'What is it? said Mrs. Mallowe sleepily. 'That dowd and The Dancing Master to whom I object. 'Why to The Dancing Master? He is a middle-aged gentleman, of reprobate and romantic tendencies, and tries to be a friend of mine.
'Was this before or after supper? 'Oh! before oceans before. Isn't it perfectly disgusting? 'Let me think. I withhold judgment till tomorrow. Morning brings counsel. But morning brought only a servant with a dainty bouquet of Annandale roses for Mrs. Hauksbee to wear at the dance at Viceregal Lodge that night. 'He doesn't seem to be very penitent, said Mrs. Mallowe.
"God gie us a guid conceit of oorselves," said Mrs. Hauksbee piously, returning to her natural speech. 'Now, in any other woman that would have been vulgar. I am consumed with curiosity to see Mrs. Bent. I expect complications. 'Woman of one idea, said Mrs. Mallowe shortly; 'all complications are as old as the hills! I have lived through or near all all All!
Hauksbee said, when Tarrion thanked her, almost with tears in his eyes, was first: "I told you so!" and next, to herself: "What fools men are!" THE CONVERSION OF AURELIAN McGOGGIN. Ride with an idle whip, ride with an unused heel. But, once in a way, there will come a day When the colt must be taught to feel The lash that falls, and the curb that galls, and the sting of the rowelled steel.
It's the having no worry on one's mind and the Hill air, I suppose. 'Hill air, indeed! said Mrs. Hauksbee to herself. 'He'd have been hiding in the Club till the last day of his leave, if I hadn't discovered him. And aloud, 'Why shouldn't you be? You have every right to. 'I! Why? 'Oh, hundreds of things. I'm not going to waste this lovely afternoon by explaining; but I know you have.
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