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"But wouldn't it have been the best joke!" she added regretfully. "Bengal," Agony continued, realizing that even if Bengal could be suppressed as far as the stunt went, she would still have plenty of opportunity for making life miserable for Miss Peckham now that she had learned her embarrassing secret, "you won't mention this to any of the other girls, will you?
"I had not heard anything about cats, Miss Peckham, save the misfortune of a cat convention in our back kitchen yesterday morning. Janice told me about that, of course; but she could scarcely be blamed for it." "I don't know why she shouldn't be blamed!" ejaculated the angry woman. "And my Sam's got a broken leg." "I am sorry if any of the cats were injured.
It's interesting to watch a man try to do housework, I've no doubt." "You said something then, Miss Peckham," said Mr. Day, cheerfully, and began industriously daubing the stove covers. "I brought Mrs. Watkins in here to see you, Mr. Day, 'cause I got your welfare and hers at heart," pursued the spinster. That sounded rather ominous, and Mr.
"Joseph Goldstein burglary. Will you give him grand larceny in the second?" The Honorable Peckham shook his head. "Sorry I can't oblige you, old top," he said regretfully. "He's called the King of the Fences. If I did, the papers would holler like hell. I'll make it any degree of burglary, though." "Very well. Burglary in the third," agreed Mr. Tutt, jotting it down.
The way in which Silas Peckham had made his Committee say what he wanted them to for he recognized a number of expressions in the Report as coming directly from the lips of his principal, and could not help thinking how cleverly he had forced his phrases, as jugglers do the particular card they wish their dupe to take struck him as particularly neat and pleasing.
Silas Peckham, carried him to the desk of the young lady assistant, Miss Darley by name, and introduced him to her. The young lady assistant had to point out to the new master the whole routine of the classes, and Mr. Langdon had a great many questions to ask relating to his new duties.
Silas Peckham thought it was time to make a move for the parlor, and for this purpose presented himself at the door of the ladies' dressing-room. "Lorindy, my dear!" he exclaimed to Mrs. Peckham, "I think there can be no impropriety in our joining the family down-stairs." Mrs.
Dudley Venner took the account and read it through, without changing a feature. Then he turned to Silas Peckham. "You may make arrangements for a new assistant in the branches this lady has taught. Miss Helen Darley is to be my wife. I had hoped to have announced this news in a less abrupt and ungraceful manner.
But, as O'Brien afterward asked Peckham, "How in thunder could you tell?" The court's troubles had, however, only begun. Ah Fong was a whimsical-looking person, who gave an impression of desiring to make himself generally agreeable.
Laying by his wig and cane, therefore, and once more wielding the ferule, he resumed the character of the pedagogue, and for some time reigned as vicegerent over the academy at Peckham. He appears to have been well treated by both Dr. Milner and his wife, and became a favorite with the scholars from his easy, indulgent good nature.
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