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Suddenly awake to my opportunity, I wheeled Jupp about and, making use of his knee and back, climbed up till I was enabled to reach the knob and turn it just as the man within had stepped back, probably to procure more light.
"Is young Mr. Jupp there?" she asked; for he sometimes came home with Arthur. "Young Mr. Jupp has disappeared from public life, and I am appointed in his place. It is quite true." "Arthur!" she remonstrated. "Mamma, indeed it is true. Mr. Williams has made me the offer, and Mr.
Swimming on his side, however, and striking out grandly, Jupp succeeded at length in vanquishing the current, or rather made it serve his purpose; and, presently, grasping hold of the branch of an alder that hung over the river at the point of the bend, he drew himself up on the bank with one hand, holding poor Teddy still with the other, to find himself at the same moment confronted by Nurse Mary, with Cissy and Liz, who had all hurried down the slope to the scene of the disaster.
Mrs Baxter had said that Miss Maitland and Miss Snow were birds of a feather, and Mrs Baxter probably knew better than that old liar, Mrs Jupp.
Thawed by the genial warmth, rendered all the more enjoyable by the wintry scene outside, where the snow was now swirling down faster and faster as the afternoon advanced, the little chap began to get more communicative, egged on by Jupp in a series of apparently innocent questions.
Then, all at once, Teddy appeared to recollect what had happened; for the look of bewilderment vanished from his eyes and he opened his mouth to speak in that quaint, formal way of his which Jupp said always reminded him of a judge on the bench when he was had up before the court once at Portsmouth for smuggling tobacco from a troopship when paid off!
"Runs about with the girls," said Dennis Brown. Sir Chichester Splay would not have the explanation. "Nonsense, my dear Dennis, nonsense, nonsense! He has a great many social engagements of the most desirable kind. He is, I believe, interested in some shipping firms." "I like him," said Millie Splay. "And so do I," added Joan, "very much indeed." The statement was defiantly thrown at Harold Jupp.
Jupp was in a state of supreme satisfaction ensconced between the two, munching away at the pile of nice hot buttered toast which the cook had expressly made for his delectation, and recounting between the mouthfuls wonderful yarns connected with his seafaring experiences for Mary's edification.
"I suppose her marriage turns out very unhappily?" "It had to," said Joan, quite despondent over this unalterable necessity. "Now, why?" asked Jupp in a perplexity. "Her husband never understood her." "What ho!" cried Dennis Brown, looking up from his scientific researches into "Form at a Glance." "I expect that he talked racing all day," said Miranda.
"There, that's jest it," cried she, addressing Jupp the porter again, seeing that he was a fine handsome fellow and well-proportioned out of the corner of her eye without looking at him directly, in that unconscious and highly diplomatic way in which women folk are able to reckon up each other on the sly and take mental stock of mankind. "Ain't he aggravating?
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