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Perhaps you recollect the cupboard to which I refer, sir?" "No, I don't remember any cupboard. As a matter of fact, when I used to stay at the house the drawing-room was barred.... Mrs. Hignett wouldn't let us inside it for fear we should smash her china. Is there a cupboard?" "Immediately behind the piano, sir. A nice, roomy cupboard.
"Light-hearted chaps!" said Eustace, admiring the sang-froid of the criminal world. "Full of spirits!" "This won't do," said Jane Hubbard, shaking her head. "We can't have this sort of thing. I'll go and fetch my gun." "They'll murder you, dear!" panted Mrs. Hignett, clinging to her arm. Jane Hubbard laughed. "Murder me!" she said, amusedly. "I'd like to catch them at it!" Mrs.
Breakfast was on the table in the sitting-room, a modest meal of rolls, porridge, and imitation coffee. Beside the pot containing this hell-brew, was a little pile of letters. Mrs. Hignett opened them as she ate. The majority were from disciples and dealt with matters of purely theosophical interest.
"Alias nothing! I say my name is Samuel Marlowe...." An explosive roar burst from Mr. Bennett. "The scoundrel! I know him! I forbade him the house, and...." "And by what right did you forbid people my house, Mr. Bennett?" said Mrs. Hignett with acerbity. "I've rented the house, Mortimer and I rented it from your son...." "Yes, yes, yes," said Jane Hubbard. "Never mind about that.
We must return to the moment when, having deposited her Pekinese dog in her state-room, the girl with the red hair came out again on deck. This happened just about the time when Eustace Hignett was beginning his narrative. By now the bustle which precedes the departure of an ocean liner was at its height. Hoarse voices were crying, "All for the shore!"
Eustace Hignett shuddered. "Do you think I am an ostrich?" He eyed Sam sourly. "You seem devilish pleased with yourself this morning!" Sam dried the razor carefully and put it away. He hesitated. Then the desire to confide in somebody got the better of him. "The fact is," he said apologetically, "I'm in love!" "In love!"
"Don't do it!" said Eustace Hignett solemnly. "As a friend I entreat you not to do it. Take my advice, as a man who knows women, and don't do it!" "Don't do what?" "Propose to her. I can tell by the glitter in your eye that you are intending to propose to this girl probably this morning." "Not this morning after lunch. I always think one can do oneself more justice after lunch." "Don't do it.
Horace Hignett, the world-famous writer on Theosophy, going over to America to begin a lecturing-tour; and no one realises more keenly than I do that I have left Mrs. Hignett flat. I have thrust that great thinker into the background and concentrated my attention on the affairs of one who is both her mental and her moral inferior, Samuel Marlowe.
When you reach England, remember me to your father." "He won't have forgotten you," said Bream Mortimer, confidently. He did not see how it was humanly possible for anyone to forget this woman. She was like a celebrated chewing-gum. The taste lingered. Mrs. Hignett was a woman of instant and decisive action.
Mortimer!" "Mrs. Hignett! What are you doing here?" Mrs. Hignett drew herself up stiffly. "What an odd question, Mr. Mortimer! I am in my own house!" "But you rented it to me for the summer. At least, your son did." "Eustace let you Windles for the summer!" said Mrs. Hignett, incredulously. Jane Hubbard returned from the drawing-room, where she had been switching off the orchestrion.
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