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He had received a telegram from her at lunch-time, suggesting the fulfilment of a jesting promise, made in Scotland, that she should have tea with him and see his chambers a small and harmless matter. Only, why had he dismissed his clerk so early? That is the worst of gamblers they will put a polish on the risks they run.
Had she meant anything by that? And feeling as if he were fencing with his own soul, he said: "Very well, I will." He had perceived suddenly that he did not know his wife, having always till now believed that it was she who did not quite know him. If she had not been out at lunch-time, he would have lunched out himself afraid of his own face.
The boy's name, by the way, was Cobb, his mother's maiden name. That seemed strange to us, but it possibly would not have seemed so had it been a prettier name. Just before lunch-time Cobb and his sister Sarah appeared, and they were in great trouble.
By lunch-time on the 18th they had achieved a height of over 6,000 feet, and by that time the sledges were in such a parlous state that Scott had all of them unpacked and the runners turned up for inspection. Horrid revelations followed; one sledge remained sound, and Scott promptly decided that there was one course and only one to take, and that was to return to the ship as fast as they could.
There will be no stars. There will be no moon. The very heavens fight for us, and by sunrise our outposts will be twenty miles inland!" At lunch-time Carl Schultz carefully, obsequiously waited upon the three strangers. He gave them their choice of soup, thick or clear, of gooseberry pie or Half-Pay pudding.
The Child had asked Marie how to write "half," and the other she had found in the corner of one of her mother's formal invitations. She did not know what the four letters meant, but they made the invitation look nicer, and she could make lovely capital "R's." At lunch-time the Child stole up-stairs and deposited her little folded note on top of her father's manuscript.
But from eleven until four, except at lunch-time, I must not bust into the house and holler at Aunty May for she is writing; and I must not run after and plague Aunty Edith, when she goes up the towpath for she's painting. Mr. Taylor, being seventy-three, can be spoken to at any time, except when he's doing his baking. Then he doesn't want anything or anybody round his feet, he says.
So all that morning Jip stood in the front part of the ship, sniffing the wind and pointing the way for the Doctor to steer; while all the animals and the little boy stood round with their eyes wide open, watching the dog in wonder. About lunch-time Jip asked Dab-Dab to tell the Doctor that he was getting worried and wanted to speak to him.
I do not exonerate myself. After a brisk walk I felt better, and by lunch-time was able to come back to the house and behave as usual. Augustus, I found, had gone to London. Mrs. Gurrage was uneasy. She dropped her h's once or twice, a sure sign, with her, of perturbation and excitement.
Jenny was staid and sober, but when Robert said, "Now, lad and lady," the colt pranced a few steps, then settled to a steady trot, learning a lesson from Jenny. An hour before lunch-time they whirled up to Captain Stark's tavern in Derryfield, and before sunset came to a halt in the dooryard of a relative in Andover.
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