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And here, above all, is Miss Hugonin, utilising the vast power of money which I am credibly informed is a very good thing to have, though I cannot pretend to speak from experience and casting whole bakeryfuls of bread upon the waters of charity. And here am I, the idle singer of an empty day a mere drone in this hive of philanthropic bees! Dear, dear," said Mr.
"Well, you had no business to do it," Miss Hugonin pointed out, "and you can just climb right back." Then she regarded him more intently, and her face softened somewhat. "What's the matter with your foot?" she demanded. "Brakesman," said Mr. Flinks, briefly. "Threw me off a train.
And Margaret handed him the long envelope which lay in her lap. Mr. Woods promptly opened it. "That," Miss Hugonin commented, "is what I term very unladylike behaviour on your part." "You evidently don't trust me, Billy Woods. Very well! I don't care!
There you have the best description of Margaret Hugonin that I am capable of giving you. No one realises its glaring inadequacy more acutely than I.
Why, bless my soul, child, you why, there's no telling what trouble you might have gotten into!" Miss Hugonin pouted. "You needn't be such a grandfather," she suggested, helpfully. "But it's a serious business," he insisted. At this point Billy began to object to her pouting as distracting one's mind from the subject under discussion. "It why, it's "
"You are wrong," he said, with a flush. "It is true that I asked Miss Hugonin to marry me. But she very wisely, I dare say declined." "Ah!" Kathleen said, slowly. Then and it will not do to inquire too closely into her logic she spoke with considerable sharpness: "She's a conceited little cat! I never in all my life knew a girl to be quite so conceited as she is.
For it was cut low in the neck; and Margaret's neck and shoulders would have drawn madrigals from a bench of bishops. And in consequence, Billy Woods ate absolutely no dinner that evening. It was an hour or two later when the moon, drifting tardily up from the south, found Miss Hugonin and Mr. Kennaston chatting amicably together in the court at Selwoode.
I don't know a man living, prepared to dispute that Miss Haggage excelled Miss Hugonin in all these desirable qualities. Yet with pleasing unanimity they went mad for Margaret and had the greatest possible respect for Adèle. And, my dear Mrs. Grundy, I grant you cheerfully that this was all wrong.
But Colonel Hugonin enjoyed them thoroughly; for, as he feelingly and frequently observed, it is an immense consolation to any man to reflect that his home no longer contains "more damn' foolishness to the square inch than any other house in the United States." On all sides they sought for Cock-eye Flinks. But they never found him, and to this day they have never found him.
Van Orden readily conceded, "and I suppose I ought to beg your pardon for mentioning it, but I do love you to a perfectly unlimited extent. It's playing the very deuce with my polo, Miss Hugonin, and as for my appetite why, if you won't have me," cried Hugh, in desperation, "I I really, you know, I don't believe I'll ever be able to eat anything!"
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