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He gave the note to the parlormaid the next morning in an inadvertent, casual manner just as he was leaving the house to catch his London train. When Ann Veronica got it she had at first a wild, fantastic idea that it contained a tip. Part 5 Ann Veronica's resolve to have things out with her father was not accomplished without difficulty.
At that moment there happened the unexpected. The parlormaid Annie entered, announcing Mrs. Surprise was expressed in the study. This was the lady who had said that the Heths were very improbable people. Papa opined, somewhat glumly, that she had come to beg funds for the confounded Settlement.
Pancras soon after five, and drove at once to a large, roomy house on the north side of Regent's Park. He was admitted by a trim parlormaid Parkins had been left behind to superintend the removal from Blackbird's Nest and he found himself asking his first question with a certain amount of temerity. "Madame is in?" he inquired. "Madame is in the drawing-room," the maid answered. "Alone?"
"Oh, you're neither Miss nor Mrs." "Really!" "I mean, you're married, but you have a title." "That will come more expensive. A person of title should have a diamond guard for her wedding-ring. You feel that, don't you?" "Now you speak of it, I do." "Would you like her to wear a cap for indoors?" "Sounds as if she were a parlormaid " "Not at all. I'm sure a proper Scotch aunt would wear a cap."
At this point the deadlock demanded by the canons of art having been reached by the force of circumstances and the clash of wills enter the Deus ex Machina, in the shape of a pretty parlormaid in a black gown and white apron, with a bow of pink ribbon at her neck; instead of the car, a silver salver, and on it a single letter.
"He must be very ill, that old gentleman," Jeanne opined. "And poor Doctor Arkroyd will be very tired. She will find the walk across the heath very fatiguing." "Walk, Jeanne? Didn't she take the car?" cried Cynthia, surprised. No, the Doctor had not taken the car; she had started to walk with Mr. Beaumaroy; the parlormaid had certainly told Jeanne that. "I tell you what," said the Captain.
"I do not know. Probably we shall not be long. You will have plenty of opportunities, in any case." "Will you walk into the study, please, sir," said the parlormaid. The Rev. George was closeted with his father for an hour. When he came out, he left the house, and travelled by omnibus to Westbourne Grove, whence he walked to a house in Uxbridge Road. Here he inquired for Mr.
Alexis says he's all right. And for a black person," added the parlormaid, "I do think the boy's all right, Ma'am." She went out and Aunt Jo and Mother Bunker laughed. The youngsters were suddenly excited at that moment by the stopping of a taxicab at the door. Vi had spied it from the window, for hard as it snowed she could see that. "Here's Daddy! Here's Daddy!" she cried, dancing up and down.
Lucy who had a horror of the creature's uncanny looks objected to Cockatoo waiting at the table, and it was only on rare occasions that he was permitted to assist the harassed parlormaid. On this night the Kanaka acted excellently as a butler, and crept softly round the table, attending to the needs of the diners.
The neighborhood was entirely strange to him and he was surprised to find that the house which was pointed out to him by a policeman was situated in grounds of not inconsiderable extent, and approached by a short drive. Directly he rang the bell he was admitted not by a flamboyant parlormaid but by a quiet, sad-faced butler in plain, dark livery, who might have been major-domo to a duke.
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