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Inchbare," she thought to herself. "And it is just possible that the conversation may get beyond the relative merits of her poultry-yard and mine." A lapse of little more than two hours proved Hopkins's estimate of the latent enthusiasm in Mrs. Inchbare's character to have been correctly formed. The eager landlady appeared at Windygates on the heels of the returning servant.
She's always like this, ma'am, when a storm's coming," he went on, turning to the landlady. "No, thank you I know how to manage her. Well send to you, if we want your assistance." "At yer ain pleasure, Sir," answered Mistress Inchbare. "No offense, my leddy! Ye'll remember that ye cam' here alane, and that the hottle has its ain gude name to keep up."
The capacity for accurate observation is a capacity so uncommon, and is so seldom associated, even where it does exist, with the equally rare gift of accurately describing the thing or the person observed, that Anne's dread of the consequences if Mrs. Inchbare was allowed time to comply with Blanches request, was, in all probability, a dread misplaced.
Delamayn went to London on the day of the lawn-party. And Arnold " "And Arnold went with him as far as the second station from this. Quite true! But how was I to know what Mr. Delamayn might have done after Arnold had left him? I could only make sure that he had not gone back privately to the inn, by getting the proof from Mrs. Inchbare." "How did you get it?"
Inchbare instantly bustled out to fetch the choicest garments that her wardrobe could produce. The moment the door had closed on her Blanche looked round the room in her turn. The rights of affection having been already asserted, the claims of curiosity naturally pressed for satisfaction next. "Somebody passed me in the dark," she whispered. "Was it your husband? I'm dying to be introduced to him.
"Good gracious! I'm absolutely distilling rain from every part of me. And I'm making you, Anne, as wet as I am! Lend me some dry things. You can't? Mrs. Inchbare, what does your experience suggest? Which had I better do? Go to bed while my clothes are being dried? or borrow from your wardrobe though you are a head and shoulders taller than I am?" Mrs.
Right or wrong, however, the alarm that she felt hurried her into taking measures for dismissing the landlady on the spot. "We mustn't keep you from your occupations any longer," she said to Mrs. Inchbare. "I will give Miss Lundie all the help she needs." Barred from advancing in one direction, Blanche's curiosity turned back, and tried in another. She boldly addressed herself to Anne.
Inchbare, in profiting by the message which I had the pleasure of sending to you." I crave yer pardon, I'm sure, if I ha' been ower hasty. "I am shocked to hear that I have been the innocent cause of your falling into temptation, Mrs. Inchbare! Make your proposal and I shall be happy to meet it, if I can." "I must e'en be content wi' what yer leddyship will condescend on.
A more sour-tempered, cunning, and distrustful witness I never examined in all my experience at the Bar. She would have upset the temper of any mortal man but a lawyer. We have such wonderful tempers in our profession; and we can be so aggravating when we like! In short, my dear, Mrs. Inchbare was a she-cat, and I was a he-cat and I clawed the truth out of her at last.
"Had he any thing about him of the look and way of a sailor?" she asked. "And did you notice, when you spoke to him, that he had a habit of playing with a locket on his watch-chain?" "There he is, het aff to a T!" cried Mrs. Inchbare. "Yer leddyship's weel acquented wi' him there's nae doot o' that." "I thought I had seen him," said Lady Lundie. "A modest, well-behaved young man, Mrs.
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