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He took up the heavy bird, which made some maudlin objections, and carried it gingerly to the fence. 'Here's the victim, Mr. Humpage, he said lightly. 'I think it will be itself again in a couple of hours or so. And now, perhaps, we can let the matter drop for the present.
They were all looking at a large grey gander, which was unquestionably trespassing at that moment; but it was unjust to say, as Mr. Lightowler had said, that they were giving it any encouragement; the prevailing anxiety seemed to be to recover it, but as the fence was not low, and Mr. Humpage not young enough to care to scale it, they were obliged to wait the good pleasure of the bird.
Lightowler's conduct. 'It's very silly of both of them, she said; 'and then to drag you into the quarrel, too! You know, old Mr. Humpage is not really my uncle only one of those relations that sound like a prize puzzle when you try to make them out. Dolly always calls him Uncle Anthony he's her godfather. But I wish you hadn't offended him, Mr. Ashburn, I do really.
Kindly correct, and oblige yours, 'You know, he observed when he came to the end, 'it doesn't do to let these sort o' stories go flying about without contradicting them but I put it very quietly and delicately, you see. Mabel bit her lip. Was it possible that this dreadful old man knew nothing how was she ever to break it to him? Mr. Humpage had listened to the letter with a grim appreciation.
Uncle Solomon had come out in broadcloth, and a large hat with such an ecclesiastical brim that it influenced his conversation, causing it to be more appropriate than Sunday talk will sometimes be, even amongst the best people. He discoursed of Ritualism, and deplored the hold it had acquired on the vicar, and the secret manoeuvres of the detested Humpage in the vestry.
He stood there for a few moments without a word, evidently overcome by anger, which Mark supposed was due to annoyance at having first blundered into the bedroom. 'It's old Humpage, he thought. 'What can he want with me? The other found words at last, beginning with a deadly politeness. 'I see I am in the presence of the right person, he began.
Humpage, showing his teeth with a kind of snarl. 'There are people who will see personalities in a proposition of Euclid, said Mark, now completely himself again, and rather amused by the scene; 'I should think you must be one of them, Mr. Humpage. Will it comfort you if I let you know that I that this book was written months before I first had the pleasure of seeing you. 'No, sir, not at all.
Lightowler; 'quite 'ad to press him to step in and do the garden up a bit. You and your gander! Mabel had already escaped; Mark remained trying to persuade his uncle to come away before the matter ceased to be farcical. 'I shall take this matter up, sir! I shall take it up! said Mr. Humpage, in a white rage; 'and I don't think it will do you credit as a churchwarden, let me tell you!
Humpage came to see Mabel: he had heard of the whole affair from the Langtons, and reproached himself not a little, now that he knew how utterly without foundation had been his bitterness against Mark. Mr. Humpage did not approach the question from the Langton point of view, and was not concerned that Mabel should have married a man who had turned out to be a nonentity.
'What, has that nephew of yours been turning out bad, hey? he cried; he was quite a child of nature in his utter freedom from all conventional restraints, as may have been perceived before this. 'You don't say so, Humpage? Now I'm sorry to year it; I really am sorry to year that!
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