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Flanagan's face, instead of breaking out into grateful smiles, as I anticipated, assumed a sudden scowl, and at the same moment Miss Henniker entered the dormitory! Quick as thought I plunged the box back into my pocket, and looked as unconcerned as it was possible to do under the trying circumstances. "Flanagan and Batchelor, a bad mark each for talking," said the now painfully familiar voice.
"Batchelor must be punished," said Mr Ladislaw, who, I could not help privately thinking, was a little afraid of Miss Henniker himself. "Come to my study, sir." I came, followed of course by the Henniker; and in Mr Ladislaw's study I was caned on both hands. Miss Henniker would, I fancy, have laid it on a little harder than the master did. Still, it was enough to make me smart.
Before they again made their appearance, I had caught a firm hold of the twig, and flung myself up into a position of perfect safety. "Thank God he's safe!" I heard Mrs Reichardt exclaim. The sharks did return; but when they found their anticipated prey had escaped, they swam lazily out to sea. "Are you much hurt, Frank Henniker?" she presently cried out to me. "I have not a scratch," I replied.
Amongst the many interesting letters and papers that Mrs. Henniker showed me was one from Mr. Gladstone to herself congratulating her on her first novel "Sir George," for Mrs.
There was no fire in the church heater; and the few worshipers the Vancourt Henniker girls, the two Misses Harrison, John Young-Dickson, of The Dell, dragged out at the chilly hour by his new wife, and Mrs. Schuyler Farnsworth and her daughter, all of the country-house colony beyond the creek sat or knelt, and shivered through the service in decorous discomfort.
Referring to the publication of her most recent novel, "Foiled," which is a depiction of Society life as it actually is, and not, as is so frequently the case, of the writer's imagination as to what Society is or should be, I asked Mrs. Henniker if she wrote her stories from life.
"Rather coarse sort of brute, Image," put in Lord Shotover. "And Henniker had such an excellent manner with the farmers, genial and cheery, very cheery at times and yet without any loss of dignity. Great test of a man's breeding that, being cheery without loss of dignity. Now my poor friend, Henniker oh! ah! yes, where was I though? Your debts now, Shotover.
"That doesn't matter," he said. "Doesn't it? I wish I was bigger, I'd back you up and so will Flanagan, if you let him." "Thanks, old man!" said the new boy, putting his hand on my arm. "It's not the fellows I mind, it's " and here he pulled up. "Old Henniker," I put in, in accents of smothered rage. "Ugh!" said Smith; "she's awful!"
The captain then told us that as we were all of one opinion, the next point, was to decide as to who should have the command he said, that if it had been on ship-board, he of course would have taken it himself, but now we were on shore he thought that Mr Henniker was a much more competent person than he was, and he therefore proposed that the command should be given to him, and he, for one, would willingly be under his orders.
Smith solemnly proceeded to do as he was bid, and presently the screws were both dislodged. "Is it done?" said the Henniker when the sound ceased. "Yes, Miss Henniker; the door is quite free." "Then," said the Henniker and there positively seemed to be a tremor in the voice "please go; I will be down presently."
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