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"Yes, and very snug you are, too," said Mrs. Munger, taking one half of the leather lounge, and leaving the other half to Annie. "I don't wonder Mrs. Gerrish likes to visit you here." Mr. Gerrish laughed, and said to his wife, who moved provisionally in her chair, seeing he had none, "Sit still, my dear; I prefer my usual perch."
At sunrise she fell in with the gunboat Vicksburg on the blockade off Havana. Other blockading vessels came up also. The converted revenue cutter Manning, Captain Munger, was detailed to convoy the Gussie, and, three abreast, the steamers moved along the coast. “The Cuban guides on the Gussie took their machetes to a grindstone on the hurricane-deck.
He put to his lips the black bottle which he had been holding in his right hand behind him; then he took it away, looked at it, and flung it rolling-along the piazza floor. "Didn't get hold of the inexhaustible bottle that time; never do. But it's a good article; a better article than you used to sell on the sly, Bill Gerrish. You'll excuse my helping myself, Mrs. Munger; I knew you'd want me to.
Munger encountered a belief, which she did not discourage, that the Northwick girls had known all along that their father was alive, and had been in communication with him; through Putney, most probably. In the light of this conjecture the lawyer's character had a lurid effect, which it did not altogether lose when Jack Wilmington said, bluntly, "What of it? He's their counsel.
"How do I know, till you tell me?" snarled the boy. "If he doesn't know," said Barnworth to Ainger, significantly, "we must do as we proposed. I'll go and get my papers and be ready for you in a minute." This meaningless speech had a remarkable effect on Munger. He stared first at one prefect, then at the other; and when Barnworth rose as if to leave the room, he said, "Wait don't do that.
He had interviewed the faded old wreck who served as janitress and, learning that Mrs. Munger would be back any minute, had taken this method of being within touching distance when the good woman unlocked her door. She might decide to leave him outside its panels while she got in her fine work of hiding the thing he had climbed up three flights of stairs to find.
"But I'll tell you what," said Putney, with a savage burst, "that a woman who puts hell-fire before a poor devil who can't keep out of it when he sees it, is better worth looking at." "Mr. Putney, I assure you," said Mrs. Munger, "that it was the mildest punch! And I really didn't think I didn't remember " She turned toward Mrs.
But I don't know, Annie, whether I oughtn't to remember my low beginnings." "I suppose we all like to be consistent," answered Annie aimlessly, uneasily. "Yes," Mrs. Munger broke in; "but they were not your beginnings, Mrs. Wilmington; they were your incidents your accidents." "It's very pretty of you to say so, Mrs. Munger," drawled Mrs. Wilmington.
Putney was hoaxing, I shall not give myself away. Do find out what he means, Miss Kilburn, won't you?" She took hold of Annie's unoffered hand, and pressed it in a double leathern grasp, and ran out of the room with a lightness of spirit which her physical bulk imperfectly expressed. "Well?" said Annie, to the change which came over Morrell's face when Mrs. Munger was gone.
There's time enough for you to make your calls before lunch, and then you can come home with me." Annie suggested that this would not do after refusing Mrs. Brandreth. "Why, it would never have done to accept!" Mrs. Munger cried. "They didn't dream of it!" At the next place she said: "This is the Clevingers'. They're some of our all-the-year-round people too."
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