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On these matters he need not have had any concern, since I ate four hearty meals a day, with perhaps an apple or a hunk of bread in between; while as for sleeping, Mistress Pennyquick was wont to declare, five out of the seven mornings in the week, when she woke me, that she knew I would sleep my brains away.
It was nigh eleven o'clock when I got home a very late hour in our parts, and Mistress Pennyquick was in a great to-do, imagining all kinds of evil that might have befallen me. Mr. Pinhorn had remained with my father a long time, she said; he was now asleep and was not to be disturbed. I was myself fairly tired out, and fell asleep the instant my head touched the pillow.
Hereupon Mistress Pennyquick set up a cry about the wickedness of teaching little boys to fight, and the state she would be in if I was some day brought home mangled and disfigured, and a great deal more to the same effect. The captain tapped the table until she had finished, and then, with a fine courtly bow, he said: "Spoken like a woman, ma'am.
I told nobody of what I suffered, and when Mistress Pennyquick noticed that I was pale and heavy-eyed sometimes in the morning, she did but suppose it was due to a closer application to books than I had known formerly, and forthwith increased my daily allowance of milk.
I will see you tomorrow, my boy." And then he too went, leaving me alone with Mistress Pennyquick, who had done nothing for some while but sob and rock herself to and fro on her chair. "That wicked man!" she moaned. "But he will be punished he will be punished, Humphrey. Oh, my poor master!" "What is it, Becky?" I asked, with but little curiosity for her answer.
Refreshed by my ablutions, I was nothing loath to follow him to the kitchen, where a red-faced little dumpling of a cook set before me such a breakfast as would have made Mistress Pennyquick stare. "Eat away," she said, setting her arms akimbo and eying me up and down as I ravenously began my meal. "Lawks!
The knight refused point blank to acknowledge any claim upon him, and swore that if Mistress Pennyquick and I were not out of the house by the day he named, he would come with bailiffs and constables and fling us out neck and crop. Captain Galsworthy was more concerned than I was at the failure of his well-meant intervention.
Martin can serve me better." "What, Becky!" I cried; "d'you think I'm a grocer's boy after all?" "Oh, my boy!" she cried, flinging her arms about me. "Drat the girl! "How many times have I told you to ask visitors into the parlor! "Oh, my dear, precious boy!" "'Tis not her fault," I said, giving the good creature an answering hug; "I asked for Mistress Pennyquick."
The landlord having readily accepted this condition, Thomas Pennyquick retired to the bosom of his family. And there was Bishopriggs, doubly secured behind a respectable position and a virtuous action against all likelihood of suspicion falling on him as a stranger in Perth in the event of his correspondence with Mrs. Glenarm being made the object of legal investigation on the part of her friends!
One night as we were sitting reading, my father had an attack which terrified us. All at once, without a moment's warning, he dropped his book, and stood up, bending forward, his face blue, his eyes almost starting from his head. We hastened to him, but he motioned us away, and then Mistress Pennyquick bade me ride for Mr. Pinhorn.
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