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Updated: May 19, 2025
But we'll have none except true-blues in our literary association." The society thus planned was soon called into being, for Philip Maylands was one of those determined characters who carry their plans into execution with vigour and despatch.
"Only Mrs Maylands!" thought Phil; "does the man want me to add `widow of the Reverend James Maylands, and mother of all the little Maylands?" but he only said, "Sure, sir, it's to her I want to send the money." "Put down her Christian name;" said the clerk; "order can't be drawn without it."
"If you saw your wife now, supposin' you had one, at the pint of death with hunger, an' you saw a loaf lyin' as didn't belong to you, would you let her die?" Aspel thought of May Maylands. "I don't know," he replied, "what I should do. All that I say is, that stealing is unjustifiable." The argument was stopped at this point by the entrance of a small telegraph message-boy.
"She could not get away from duty to meet us. I shall telegraph to her that we have arrived, and that I shall meet her under the portico of the Post-Office and fetch her home this evening." "It is an amazing thing that telegraph! To think that one can send messages and make appointments so quickly!" remarked Mrs Maylands.
What would you think, now, of `Obstinate Kangaroo' for a message?" "I would think it nonsense, Phil." "Nevertheless, mother, it covers sense. "You don't say so!" exclaimed Mrs Maylands, raising both hands and eyebrows. "Yes I do, mother, and in my City friend's code the word `Blazing' means `Quality is approved, while `Blissful' signifies `What is the smallest quantity you require?"
"I think of going to see Philip Maylands, who, I am given to understand by Miss Lillycrop, was once an intimate friend of Aspel. Do you happen to know his address?" "Yes, he lives with his mother now, but it's of no use your going to his home to-night. You are aware that this is Christmas eve, and all the officials of the Post-Office will be unusually busy.
Once upon a time only once, observe, she did not do it twice a widow of the name of Maylands went, in a fit of moderate insanity, and took up her abode in a lonely, tumble-down cottage in the west of Ireland. Mrs Maylands was very poor. She was the widow of an English clergyman, who had left her with a small family and the smallest income that was compatible with that family's maintenance.
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