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Updated: September 16, 2025
"An' what th' hell are you nosin' around here for, anyway?" snarled M'Ginnis, shutting the heavy safe with a fierce slam; "since you've come in you can get out again right now!" Soapy seated himself upon a corner of the desk and placidly breathed out two spirals of cigarette smoke. "Heard about Hermy bein' married, Bud?" he enquired. "Married? You're a liar! Hermy married? It's not so!"
Perhaps Hermy and Ursy had travelled in the van, because "it was such a lark," or for some other tomboy reason, and he went down the platform to investigate.
"I do wish Hermy could find her way here too; she used t' be so tired sometimes." "You mean that you would like to find Princess Nobody, I guess." "Oh, but I can't! I used to look an' look for her every day 'til th' gentleman said she wasn't here, an' told me never t' come near th' big house any more." "But he's gone, and you never had me to help you."
"He had judged me and condemned me," she said at last, "and therefore, as a matter of course, we were not such friends when we last met as we used to be before my marriage." "But, Julia, there was much for which you owed him gratitude." "We will say nothing about that now, Hermy." "I do not know why your mouth should be closed on such a subject because he has gone.
"Why, she's Hermy, Prince and I'm Princess Somebody. And oh, Hermy dear, you do 'member where you left off now, don't you?" "Yes, I remember; but I don't feel like telling fairy stories now, dear." "Oh! are y' sick?" cried the child anxiously, touching Hermione's golden hair with loving fingers, "is it a headache like my mumsey gets?"
The first emotion that mingled itself with the sheer terror, was a passionate regret that Hermy and Ursy had not come. They would have thought it tremendous larks, and would have invented some wonderful offensive with fire-irons and golf-clubs and dumb-bells.
For himself, he would have had everything packed and corded long before dinner, if he was to start next day, except just a suit case that would hold the apparatus of immediate necessities, but then dear Hermy and Ursy were so ramshackle in their ways.
She knows what she is about, and will understand what she has to get as well as what she is expected to give. All I can say is, that if she accepts you, Hermy will consent that she shall go to Clavering as much as she pleases till the marriage takes place. It couldn't be done, I suppose, till after a year; and in that case she shall be married at Clavering."
"He ain't marryin' you fer your clo'es, Hermy no, sir! It's you he wants an' oh, shucks! What do clo'es matter t' you, anyway? You was meant to be one o' them nymphs an' goddesses as went about clad well, airy. You'd ha' done fine with them soft arms an' shoulders an' "
The permission was willingly granted; after the lamp was brought, for it was later than usual, and we had settled ourselves on the sofa, the colonel stroked his moustache for some time, and began, after he had gazed quietly before him for a moment: "To-day my story shall be called, 'The Nuts. Does that please you, Hermy?" The little one smiled at him expectantly and nodded his head.
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