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"That," said Miss Henniker, pointing to one of the beds, "is your bed, and you wash at this washstand." "Oh," said I, again forgetting myself; "you are to be sure my brush and comb " "Silence, Batchelor!" once more reiterated Miss Henniker.
Mr Ladislaw, quick! Batchelor and Smith!" We stood motionless, with no spirit left to fly, until the door was opened, and Mr Ladislaw, Miss Henniker, and Mr Hashford, all three, sallied out to capture us.
After a time your mother spoke again. "`I really think, Henniker, that I ought to wear the belt. "`Why so, my dear? "`Because it might be the means of my preservation in case of accident. Suppose, now, we were obliged to abandon the vessel and take to the boats; a husband, in his hurry, might forget his wife, but he would not forget his diamonds.
"Silence, Hawkesbury," said the Henniker. "Now, Smith." But she might have been addressing a log of wood. "Do you hear what I say to you?" once more she exclaimed. Smith only glared at her with his big eyes, and resolutely held his tongue. "Then," said Mr Ladislaw, "Smith must be publicly punished." Smith was punished publicly; and a more repulsive spectacle I never wish to witness.
I have stared fixedly at the gas, or the old china ornament on the mantelpiece, till my eyes became watery with the effort and I have suffered all the tortures of a cold in the head without the possibility either of sniffing or clearing my throat! It made no difference to Miss Henniker that she was reading aloud.
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.
I was in town, and made a business call on Mr. Henniker. He's a member of your church, isn't he?" "Of St. Michael's in the city," she corrected. "You know I claim membership here at home in St. John's." "Well, it's all the same. He is what you would call a Christian man, I take it?" "Why not?" she demanded. "What has he done to make you doubt it?" "Oh, nothing worth mentioning, perhaps.
The day that witnessed my departure from Stonebridge House found me, I am bound to confess, very little improved by my year or two's residence under that dull roof. I do not blame it all on the school, or even on Miss Henniker, depressing as both were. There is no reason why, even at a school for backward and troublesome boys, a fellow shouldn't improve, if he gave his mind to it.
To his right were three other small British columns under Bethune, Thorneycroft, and Henniker, the latter resting upon the railway at Matjesfontein, and the whole line extending over 120 miles barring the southern path to the invaders.
"Why?" inquired the smartly-dressed little woman, mischievously. "What can it matter to you?" "I have her welfare at heart, Mrs. Henniker," I answered seriously. "Then you have a curious way of showing your solicitude on her behalf," she said bluntly, smiling again.
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