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Shaughnessey. And on her other side, sat Captain M'Gramm, in despite of Mrs. Bangster's motherly care and of his own wife at home. On the following morning, Mrs. Price and Captain M'Gramm were walking the deck together just as they had been used to do on the other side of Suez. And so things went on till the day before their arrival at Southampton. Mrs.
As he did so, his mind would fly off to Adela Gauntlet; but his arms and legs were not the less at the service of Mrs. Price. "And now look after the places," said Mrs. Cox; "you haven't a moment to lose. And look here, Mr. Bertram, mind, I won't sit next to Major Biffin. And, for heaven's sake, don't let us be near that fellow M'Gramm."
And now to be thrown on one side for two travelling Englishmen, one in a brown coat and the other in a black one for two muffs, who had never drunk sangaree or sat under a punkah! This was unpleasant to Major Biffin and Captain M'Gramm.
Captain M'Gramm was not a handsome man, and he was aware that he fought his battle under the disadvantage of a wife. But he had impudence enough to compensate him for this double drawback. During this first dinner, Arthur Wilkinson was not more than coldly civil to Mrs. Price; but Bertram became after a while warmly civil to Mrs. Cox.
Price told me all about Captain M'Gramm." "Has she? Well! It seems that he, Biffin, has taken advantage of her frank, easy manner, and talked of her to every man in the ship. I think she has been quite right to cut him." And so they discussed the two ladies. And at last Mrs. Price got her porter, and Mrs. Cox got her pale ale.
The sweet good-nature of the widow might have overlooked that offence. But he had boasted of the favours and pooh-poohed the engagement! "Hinc illæ lacrymæ." And who shall say that the widow was wrong? And as to the other widow, Mrs. Price, she was tired of Captain M'Gramm. A little fact had transpired about Captain M'Gramm, namely, that he was going home to his wife.
"It seems to me you understand nothing, or you wouldn't be walking about with Captain M'Gramm," said Mrs. Cox. And then they parted, before blood was absolutely drawn between them. At dinner that day they were not very comfortable together. Mrs. Price accepted Mr.
Price, with whom she was now altogether reconciled. "I only wish, Minnie, that there was no Mrs. M'Gramm," said she. "He wouldn't be the man for me at all, my dear; so don't let that fret you." "There's as good fish in the sea as ever were caught yet; eh, Minnie?" "Of course there are. Though of course you think there never was such a fish as Biffin."
But the proffers were rejected, and the attempts were in vain. The ladies preferred to have their plates and glasses filled by the strangers, turned their shoulders on their old friends with but scant courtesy, and were quite indifferent to the frowns which at last clouded those two military brows. And the brows of Major Biffin and Captain M'Gramm were clouded.
"For myself, I think that we are lucky to have come across them that is, if Major Biffin does not cut my throat." "I hope Captain M'Gramm won't cut mine. He looked as though he would." "Did you ever see such an ass as that Biffin? I don't wonder that she has become sick of him; and then he has behaved so very badly to her. I really do pity her. She has told me all about it." "And so has Mrs.
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