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"Remember I am in command of the expedition and for all our sakes there must be no divided authority. You agree?" She looked up quietly. "I agree." He made way for her, and she took her seat with him beside her. French, Lodge, Jones the butler, and Tomline the odd man, got in behind her. Mrs. Friend appeared with a food hamper that she and Mrs. Mawson had been rapidly packing.
She now tidied the carriage violently, carefully hiding the book Pamela had been reading and putting the cushion on the rack. Finally, tucking the travelling-rug firmly round her mistress, she remarked pleasantly, "A h'eight hours' journey without an 'itch!" "Certainly without an aitch," thought Pamela, as she said, "You like travelling, Mawson?" "Oh yes, m'm. I always 'ave 'ad a desire to travel.
"If I seem to bother," replied Nesta, "it's because I know that he and Esther Mawson are at Normandale working mischief." "We shall be there in half an hour," said Collingwood, as their own car ran past that in which the detectives and Byner were seated. "They can't do much mischief in that time." None of the three spoke again until the car pulled up suddenly at the gates of Normandale Park.
Soon after, however, Whatmough rushed up to Jan and Jo, who were talking to a ragged woman. "Do come and talk. An officer has arrested West and Mawson." We ran ahead to find a perplexed mounted officer surrounded by our party. He had come upon West and Mawson walking on ahead and took them to be Bulgarian comitaj. "No, that's not an English uniform," he said, and searched them for firearms.
A thin woman in a black dress appeared, a woman with a depressed and deprecating expression which was often annoying to Lord Buntingford. It represented somehow an appeal to the sentiment of the spectator for which there was really no sufficient ground. Mrs. Mawson was not a widow, in spite of the Mrs.
In the following March a party of six David, Mawson, Mackay, Adams, Marshall, and Brocklehurst prepared for the ascent of Mount Erebus, the volcano, then active, discovered by Ross and named after one of his ships.
'Wha was Evangeline? I forget aboot her. "'Oh, don't you remember? The golden-'aired 'eroine with vilet eyes. "'I mind her noo. The yin wi' the black hair was the bad yin. "'Yes, she was called 'Ermione. Well, Evangeline finds 'er h'eyes attracted to the picture of a man dressed like a cavalier. "'What's that? "'I don't rightly know, Mawson confesses.
"I've sent to Fullers' for some cakes, though I don't myself consider them a patch on the Priorsford cakes, but they will be a change and make it more of an occasion. Mawson can make delicious sandwiches and Bella Bathgate has actually offered to bake some scones. I'll make the room look as smart as possible with flowers." "You've no photographs of relations?
Miss Bathgate had developed a real, if somewhat contemptuous, affection for Mawson, her lodger's maid, but she never ceased to pour scorn on her "English ways" and her English worship. If Mawson had not been one of the gentlest of creatures she would not have tolerated it for a day. One wet and windy evening Bella sat waiting for Mawson to come in to supper.
Mr Mawson now quickly recovered his spirits, and began to give himself the airs of a fine gentleman. However, this is one of the trials of life, sir, we must submit to with a good grace. The upright man is not degraded by loss of fortune, and I have no doubt many persons of education go out in second-class cabins on board emigrant ships."
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