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"A kidney or a kipper for you, Jessie?" asked the mother, addressing the elder child first. Jessie hesitated for a moment, while her sister sat regarding her in an agony of suspense. "Kipper, please, ma," Jessie answered at last, and the younger child turned her head away to hide the tears. "You'll have a kipper, of course, Trixy?" said the mother, who had noticed nothing.
As soon as Miss Panney's eyes fell upon this dish, she understood the situation Mrs. Tolbridge had actually fallen back upon Kipper. Kipper was a caterer in Thorbury, and a good one.
The same appendage is often called the crook. The salmon is usually dried by hanging it up, after being split and rubbed with salt, in the smoke of the turf fire above the cleeks, where it is said to reist, that preparation being so termed. The salmon thus preserved is eaten as a delicacy, under the name of kipper, a luxury to which Dr.
The Red Un never lied to the Chief; it was useless. The Chief toyed with his kipper. "Ye'll understand I'd ha' preferred dealin' with the matter mysel'; but it's gone up higher." The Quartermaster, of course! The Chief rose and pretended to glance over the well soundings. "The four of ye will meet me in the Captain's room in fifteen minutes," he observed casually.
There are times when one fancies an egg with one's tea. On other occasions one dreams of a kipper. To-day one clamours for lobsters. To-morrow one feels one never wishes to see a lobster again. One determines to settle down, for a time, to a diet of bread and milk and rice pudding. Asked suddenly to say whether I preferred ices to soup, or beef-steak to caviare, I should be completely nonplussed.
"Kipper" never touched a penny of her money, but if he had been her agent at twenty-five per cent. he couldn't have worked harder, and he just kept up the hum about her, till if you didn't want to hear anything more about Caroline Trevelyan, your only chance would have been to lie in bed, and never look at a newspaper.
Her remarks were stopped by a dish of salad. The young and tender leaves of lettuce were half concealed by a mayonnaise dressing. "This makes three dollars," thought Miss Panney, as she helped herself, "for Kipper never makes any difference, even if you send your own lettuce to be dressed."
An' I'd ruther 'ave the beltin' from my ole man, even wivout no kipper, than 'ave us allers lookin' at each other as if we was wooden images. Even a beltin' shows as 'ow a man 'as some regard for 'is daughter." "It do," said Cook. "Pity is, you ain't 'ad more of it, that's the only thing!" "Demobilized! Oh, Bob truly?" "Truly and really," said Bob. "At least, I shall be in twenty-seven days.
Seated at table, he proved infectiously depressing and gloomily silent. On the way to the Underground, Sandy Larcher, who happened to be in exuberant spirits, noticed his cousin's grave face and chaffed him about Cossie. "And so you couldn't sleep for thinking of her, eh? Ate no breakfast, only a bit of toast, and half a kipper; quite in a bad way, poor old chap."
Since his fifteenth year he had lived, Heaven knew how, getting sometimes a minor engagement at some minor music- hall, sometimes a temporary job as secretary-valet-companion to a roving invalid, dining now and then on plovers' eggs and asparagus at one of the smarter West End restaurants, at other times devouring a kipper or a sausage in some stuffy Edgware Road eating-house; always seemingly amused by life, and always amusing.
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