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"She shuddered a little, then said very graciously, and as if he had meant nothing but kindness: 'Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks. I will leave you now to your cigarettes; and because I must go out soon, and shall not, I fear, see you again this afternoon, good-bye, Marmy, till Saturday till Saturday. And she left us. "I was white and trembling with anger.
I seized his hand and begged his pardon, and called myself unpleasant names, which he on the instant stopped, and said: "That's all right, Marmy; shake till the knuckles crack! I'm off. Don't forget the dance." He disappeared down the passage. Then I went on deck, and the scene which I have so imperfectly described passed before me. Mrs.
Plar-bag Marmy made a formal complaint to uncle, who happened to pass there on horseback about an hour later; and the same evening Joe's latest and most carefully planned wood heap collapsed while aunt was pulling a stick out of it in the dark, and it gave her a bad scare, the results of which might have been serious.
Came down here to the inn because I heard that Marmy was on the prowl among these hills, and I thought he had probably something good to prowl after in the way of fossils." "But the man wears a wig!" Charles expostulated. "Of course," Cordery answered. "He's as bald as a bat in front at least and he wears a wig to cover his baldness."
For I shouldn't at all wonder if Lady Myrtle often asks us to go to see her, and that would be a treat and a change. But what you say about poor granny and Uncle Marmy reminds me to say something. You really needn't fly up so on the defensive every time I name them; you did it again to-day, and I'm sure Lady Myrtle must have thought it very queer, just as if I'
Why, I've known Marmy Gaskell ever since we were at Trinity together. Knew him before he married Miss Forbes of Glenluce, my wife's second cousin, and hyphened his name with hers, to keep the property in the family. Know them both most intimately.
And the prettily decorated rooms, and the old folk who came in for dinner in the servants' hall, and the roast turkey and flaming plum-pudding and snapdragon afterwards yes, though they were only such a very small party, just they three and the old lady instead of their own granny, and no Uncle Marmy to make his jokes still it was much more homelike than No. 9 Market Square Place could possibly have been.
And kind Uncle Marmy himself came home before very long to find it so. There is talk of his leaving off soldiering he has seen some active service in the East of late and taking up his abode in his own home at Stannesley. For he has been economical to some purpose.
"At last, knowing that she liked the hunt, I asked her if she was going to the meet on the following Saturday, saying that I intended to follow, having been offered a horse. With a steely ring to her voice, and a further brightening of the eyes, she said: 'You are a stout little sportsman, Marmy. Yes, I am going on Major Karney's big horse, Carbine.
"'I am sure, said I, as I hoped, bravely, and not a little enthusiastically, 'that Carbine would take any fence you asked him. "'Or not, as the case might be. Thank you, Marmy, for the compliment, she said. "'A Triton among minnows, remarked Valiant, not entirely under his breath; 'horses obey, and students admire, and there is no end to her greatness.
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