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Marrapit, on a deep chair stretched to make lap for the Rose of Sharon, sat a little in advance of her. George approached from Mr. Marrapit's flank; soft turf muffled his strides. The warm glow of kindliness towards all the world, which his success had stoked burning within him, put a foreign word upon his tongue. He sped it on a boisterous note: "Uncle!" he cried. "Uncle, I've passed!"
Ah, the sweet!" when viciously scratched by the Rose of Sharon, and upon those words walked directly in to Mr. Marrapit's heart. Did Mrs. Major like cats? Ah, sir, she adored cats; her late husband Words, at the recollection, failed her. She faltered; touched an eye with her handkerchief; wanly smiled with the resigned martyrdom of a true gentlewoman.
Letters between the pair were, by the sharpness of Mr. Marrapit's eye, compelled to be exchanged not through the post but by medium of a lovers' postal box situate in the hole of a tree in that shrubbery of Herons' Holt where they were wont by stealth to meet.
With masterly celerity Mr. Brunger drew forward pen and paper; scribbled; in three minutes had Mr. Marrapit's signed authority to offer one hundred pounds reward. He put the document in his pocket; took up his hat. "To-morrow," he said after farewells, "I or one of my staff will return to scour the immediate neighbourhood. It has been done, you tell me, but only by amateurs.
Breathless she disengaged herself: "I'm so glad you like it. It's a silly little thing but it's real, isn't it? Come, there's father." She paused against denial of the poem's silliness, affirmation of its truth; but George, moody beneath Mr. Marrapit's eye, glinting behind the window, had moved forward.
Since that terrible morning on which, throat and mouth parched, head painfully throbbing through the overnight entertainment of Old Tom, Mrs. Major had been driven from Mr. Marrapit's door, this doubly distressed gentlewoman had lived in retirement in a bed-sitting-room in Angel Street. She did not purpose immediately taking another situation.
She smiled again; tripped towards Mr. Marrapit's door. Mr. Fletcher stayed George, following. "Mr. George, did you shut up secure behind Miss Margaret?" George reassured him; questioned his earnestness. Mr. Fletcher pointed through a window that gave upon the garden. "I've the 'orrors on me to-night," he said. "According to Master there's rapine lurking in them bushes. Mr.
Outside the wire fence Mr. Marrapit and Mrs. Major parted. The masterly woman glided swiftly towards the house; Mr. Marrapit, with bent head, passed thoughtfully along an opposite path. And immediately the sleeping garden awoke to sudden activity. First to break covert was Frederick, Mr. Fletcher's assistant. Marrapit's path with bent back, diligently searching. Mr. Marrapit inquired: "Your task?"
Marrapit, I know I am only here on sufferance, but your careworn air emboldens me to suggest it might keep your poor mind from thinking a game of backgammon such as we used to play before " She sighed. "I should like it," Mr. Marrapit answered. Mrs. Major arranged the board; drew Mr. Marrapit's favourite chair to the table; rattled the dice.
The Girl Comes Near The Lugger. At breakfast upon the following day George set forth the result of his labours; with urgent eloquence extolled the virtues of this Miss Humfray. Before Mr. Marrapit's plate lay an open envelope; upon the back George could read the inscription "Norfolk Street Agency for Distressed Gentlewomen." What had Miss Ram said of his Mary?
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