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I also noticed that Mrs Bingley sniffed impatiently; but I felt that I had a duty to perform, so with unalterable resolution I prepared to continue my address, when Miss Peppy, who had been nearly asleep during the greater part of the time I was speaking, suddenly said to Miss Flouncer
"What's that you say about trifles, aunt?" asked Kenneth, who entered the room at the moment, and saluted Miss Peppy on the cheek. "Well, yes, at least I saved one," said Kenneth, with a look of mingled pride and pleasure; "stout John Furby, the coxswain of the new lifeboat, was knocked overboard and nearly drowned.
At that moment Mrs Niven entered, and handed a letter to Mr Stuart. "Niven," said Miss Peppy, who spoke so fast, all in one tone, that no one had a chance of interrupting her, "Niven, will you be so good as to go up-stairs and inquire whether the girl no, the boy I I mean the young human being, that " "La! ma'am," exclaimed the housekeeper in surprise, "why do you call her a boy?
"Beg parding, ma'am," said Mrs Niven, "but, if I may remark so, you 'ave not mentioned your reasons as yet." "Whose mother, ma'am? the Colonel's or his daughter's?" "His daughter's, of course Bella, she is called. Miss Peppy paused abruptly here, and Mrs Niven, supposing that she awaited a reply, said "Nothing whatever, ma'am." "Exactly so, Niven, that's just what I think.
"I don't know why you should; never met him before, myself. Well, do you want to trade?" "I don't much care what I do." Standish surveyed him closely. "You're very peppy this morning, seems to me." "I've got an excuse to be." "For publication?" "Not yet. You'll see it soon enough." Standish's eyes dropped back to his desk. "Well, let's get this lease question off our chests.
Mr Stuart glanced at his son, frowned at his finished egg, and stuck the spoon through the bottom of the shell as he would have struck a dagger into the hopes of Kenneth, had he possessed the power. "Peppy," he said, pushing his cup from him, "before our young friend arrived, you were speaking of the little boy who was left mysteriously here last night "
It's awful to be subjected so constantly to the Child's History of England! that's it on the top of my my which trunk can it be? I know, oh yes, the leather one. Emmie is to read well now, that is too bad " As Miss Peppy stopped and fumbled in her pocket inquiringly, Mrs Niven asked, in some concern, if it was her purse.
Mrs Gaff became suddenly comforted, and said, with a bland smile, that, having heard only that morning of her intention to visit the town of Athenbury, she had called to ask her to do her a great favour. "With the greatest pleasure; what can I do for you?" said Miss Peppy, who was the essence of good-nature.
"I 'ain't got a Jane, of course, so I decides to take a little look around all by myself. Well, I goes down the Chomps-Eleezy feelin' pretty good and sorta peppy and lookin' for trouble. I see all them army heroes the vets and the dentists and the S O S each with a skirt, and I passes Matthews, here, with his skirt clingin' to him like a cootie." "Cut it out, you big stiff," interposed Matthews.
On the present occasion Miss Peppy, having had a remarkably good night's rest, felt placid, and looked serene.
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