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Macdonald looking on, and Mawson fluttering about, admiring but incompetent. "'Something old and something new, Something borrowed and something blue," Mrs. Macdonald quoted. "Have you got them all, Jean?" "I think so. I've got a lace handkerchief that was my mother's that's old. And blue ribbon in my under-things. And I've borrowed Pamela's prayer-book, for I haven't one of my own.
The train was waiting on the branch line that terminated at Priorsford, and after a breathless rush over a high bridge in the dark Pamela and her maid, Mawson, found themselves bestowed in an empty carriage by a fatherly porter. Mawson was not a real lady's maid: one realised that at once.
Pratt would suspect nothing even if he drunk the whole bottle. Esther Mawson had anticipated Pratt's desires in the way of refreshment, and she now went to a cupboard and took from it a plate of sandwiches, carefully swathed in a napkin.
Three Bishops at least are known to have been domiciled in the square: Bishop Mawson of Ely, who died here in 1770; Bishop Herring of Bangor, a very notable prelate, who was afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury; and in the south-western corner Bishop Hough of Oxford, Lichfield, and Worcester had a fine old house until 1732. The Convent of the Assumption now covers the same ground in Nos. 20 to 24.
He couldna veesit his folk at a wise-like hour in the evening because he was gaun to hev his denner, and he couldna get oot late because his leddy-wife wanted him to be at hame efter denner. There's mony a thing to cause a minister to stumble, for they're juist human beings after a', but his rich mairrage was John Allison's undoing." "Marriage," sighed Mawson, "is a great risk.
"'Tut, my boy; you know about figures. "My head buzzed, and I could hardly sit still in my chair. But suddenly a little chill of doubt came upon me. "'I must be frank with you, said I. 'Mawson only gives me two hundred, but Mawson is safe. Now, really, I know so little about your company that "'Ah, smart, smart! he cried, in a kind of ecstasy of delight. 'You are the very man for us.
They looked aloft; at the end of the yardarm was a mass of bluish light like a small globe. Charles saw Job Mawson standing not far off; his knees were knocking together, his arms outstretched. Presently the light began to move, and suddenly it appeared at the mainmast head; there it remained stationary for some time. "What is it?" exclaimed Job Mawson. "Oh, captain, do make it go away!"
She was surprised at her own pleasure in seeing the boxes carried upstairs again, in hearing the soft voice talking to Mawson, in sniffing the faint sweet scent that seemed to hang about the house when Miss Reston was in it, conquering the grimmer odour of naphtha and boiled cabbage which generally held sway. Bella had missed Mawson too.
This fine vessel, equipped, has cost the Expedition £14,000. "The 'Aurora', the ship which will take out the Ross Sea party, has been bought from Dr. Mawson. She is similar in all respects to the Terra Nova, of Captain Scott's last Expedition. She had extensive alterations made by the Government authorities in Australia to fit her for Dr.
Muir next door, wi' six bairns, an' a' the wark o' the hoose to dae an' washin's forbye, an' here's Miss Reston never liftin' a finger except to pu' silk threads through a bit stuff. That's what makes folk Socialists." Mawson, who belonged to that fast disappearing body, the real servant class, and who, without a thought of envy, delighted in the possession of her mistress, looked sadly puzzled.
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