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"You might have a separate cabinet," I suggested. "A chamber of horrors?" she laughed. "No. It gives him more pleasure to see them as they are and a poor little freak doesn't get much out of life." She sighed, and picking up "A Present from Margate" kind of mug, fingered it very tenderly. I went away feeling angry. Was the woman bewitching me?
'Never, my dear, returned the old gentleman, 'except when he went to Margate one Saturday with Mr Tomkinley that had been a teacher at that school he went to, and came back upon the Monday; but he was very ill after that, you remember, my dear; it was quite a dissipation. 'He was not used to it, you know, said the old lady, 'and he couldn't bear it, that's the truth.
The retreating English fleet was, scattered, many ships were in peril, "among the ill-favoured sands off Norfolk," but within four or five days all arrived safely in Margate roads. Far different was the fate of the Spaniards. Over their Invincible Armada, last seen by the departing English midway between the coasts of Scotland and Denmark, the blackness of night seemed suddenly to descend.
He was, at that very moment, eating pickled salmon with a pocket-knife. ‘We must leave town immediately,’ said Mr. Cymon Tuggs. Everybody concurred that this was an indispensable preliminary to being genteel. The question then arose, Where should they go? ‘Gravesend?’ mildly suggested Mr. Joseph Tuggs. The idea was unanimously scouted. Gravesend was low. ‘Margate?’ insinuated Mrs. Tuggs.
"The mother really was ill," Molyneux said, apologetically; "at least she died soon after that. Miss Tresilyan has never shown much since. But you've no idea of the sensation she made during her season and a half. They called her The Refuser, she had such a fabulous number of offers, and wouldn't look at any of them. By-the-by, there's rather a good story about that. You know Margate?
"And if the Bishop goes next winter," she continued, "why, it will just be a life for a life;" and she choked down a sob as a young voice hailed us from behind. But the Bishop still stands in the Atlantic, and Leopold, now the second hand, explains to the Margate trippers the wonders of the North Foreland lights. The cruise happened before the steam-trawler ousted the smack from the North Sea.
'If I were to spoon upon one of the rich pupils, I dare say I could get invited out for the holidays, she said, apropos to nothing particular; 'but I am thankful to say I am above such meanness. 'I never laid myself under an obligation I didn't feel myself able to return, said Miss Motley, the English governess, who had spent her holidays amidst the rank and fashion of Margate.
We drove through Canterbury, I say, and set the car going her best on the fair road after Sturry is passed. I know the country hereabouts pretty well, being accustomed to visit fashionable watering-places from time to time, and well acquainted with Ramsgate and Margate, to say nothing of Deal and Dover.
The town was a desert of gaping trippers he could as soon think of her seeking social restoration at Margate. For a moment it occurred to him that she might have to come over to replenish her wardrobe; but he knew her dates too well to dwell long on this hope.
On Sunday afternoon I took the ship off Margate, growing hourly more anxious as the ever-increasing rumours spread; and on Monday morning I went ashore and read in the morning paper the order for general mobilization.
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