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Hennie squeezed past her and wriggled on to a stool at the end. He felt awfully out of it. She didn't even take her gloves off. She lowered her eyes and drummed on the table. When a faint violin sounded she winced and bit her lip again. Silence. The waitress appeared. I hardly dared to ask her. "Tea coffee? China tea or iced tea with lemon?" Really she didn't mind. It was all the same to her.
"And as to the mushrooms," continued Hennie Penny, "you'd never have found them if I hadn't tumbled into them, and then you thought they were toadstools." "Oh well! Who can't take a hook out of a whiting's mouth? Who was it screamed when the lobster looked at her?" "It nearly took a piece out of me." "Who nearly upset the boat when a baby devilfish came up in the pot?
They sat in silence for a time, finding themselves, while the green seas swelled up to their feet, and sank out of sight below, and their rock was laced with cascades of creamy foam. "How shall we get back?" asked Margaret at last. "Hennie will be in desperation. She will think we are drowned." "We can climb the head and round into Grande Grève, but it would be pretty rough on the feet.
"Oh, do come in! I want to make money," said the impatient voice. "It's all jolly well for you but I'm broke!" "Here take fifty francs, darling, take a hundred!" I saw Mrs. Raddick pressing notes into her hand as they passed through the swing doors. Hennie and I stood on the steps a minute, watching the people. He had a very broad, delighted smile. "I say," he cried, "there's an English bulldog.
"Yet you gave him fivepence for seeing or saying he saw two crows and three crows, because two crows mean good luck and three crows mean " "You talk as if you believed his nonsense, Hennie," broke in Margaret. "Perhaps I do to some extent. He certainly declined to pledge himself to a fine day, and it remains to be seen if the rest of his " " Humbug," suggested Graeme.
Do you think " "My dear fellow," said Graeme, jumping up and shaking him heartily by the hand, "that's the best bit of news I've heard since Meg said 'I will' in the church there. She's an absolutely splendid girl, is Hennie. Except Meg herself, I don't know any girl I admire so much. She's as good and sweet as they make 'em, and for sound common-sense she's a perfect gold mine."
You may become involved in serious complications, you see." "If that means that I can be of any service in the matter I shall be only too delighted, if you will not look upon me as an intruder." He spoke to Miss Penny but looked at Margaret. "Ah-ha! Qualms of conscience " "Hennie is a little raised, Mr. Graeme," broke in Margaret. "Please excuse her. A good night's rest will make her all right."
We older children will go, and we'll take Nurse with us," with a bow towards Hennie Penny, "and we'll make a day of it, and have ices again at that place in the Arcade, and then we'll go round the shops and clear them out for the benefit of Sark." "Ripping!" said Miss Penny. They had already made one trip to Guernsey, crossing by the early Saturday boat and returning the same evening.
Hennie buried his nose, emerged, with, for one dreadful moment, a little trembling blob of cream on the tip. But he hastily wiped it off like a little gentleman. I wondered if I should dare draw her attention to her cup. She didn't notice it didn't see it until suddenly, quite by chance, she took a sip. I watched anxiously; she faintly shuddered. "Dreadfully sweet!" said she.
Carré, as Mistress of the Ceremonies, and a very tired one at that, bluffly informed the company that it was time to go home. "I've enjoyed it immensely," said Hennie Penny, and if her face was any index to her feelings, there was no mistake about it. None of them will ever forget that great day. Still less is any of them likely to forget the day that followed.
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