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'As you say, she'll be learning something that may be useful to her in another sphere. Of course there is a good deal to do, and I should not be surprised if she were to think after a bit that your house in Bungay was more comfortable than Mrs Pipkin's kitchen in London. 'My little back parlour; eh, squoire! And I've got a four-poster, most as big as any in Bungay.
He could look about for a fresh flower and boldly seek his honey; whereas she could only sit and mourn for the sweets of which she had been rifled. She was not quite sure that such mourning would not be more bitter to her in California than in Mrs Pipkin's solitary lodgings at Islington.
'Nature had placed Nathaniel Pipkin's knees in very close juxtaposition, but when he heard old Lobbs demand his pipe, they knocked together, as if they were going to reduce each other to powder; for, depending from a couple of hooks, in the very closet in which he stood, was a large, brown-stemmed, silver-bowled pipe, which pipe he himself had seen in the mouth of old Lobbs, regularly every afternoon and evening, for the last five years.
He hardly said a good word for himself, and certainly made no objection to the treatment that had been proposed for him. But, no doubt, he was buoyed up inwardly by the conviction that he had thoroughly thrashed his enemy. Thus it came to pass that the two policemen with John Crumb and Ruby came together to Mrs Pipkin's door.
'Did you give her up then? demanded Hetta with stern severity. No; not then. He had gone back to San Francisco, and, he had not intended to say that the engagement had been renewed, but he was forced to acknowledge that it had not been broken off. Then he had written to her on his second return to England, and then she had appeared in London at Mrs Pipkin's lodgings in Islington.
Mrs Hurtle saw the poor man and told the story in Mrs Pipkin's presence. 'She's headstrong, Mr Crumb, said Mrs Hurtle. 'She is that, ma'am. And it was along wi' the baronite she went? 'It was so, Mr Crumb. 'Baro-nite! Well; perhaps I shall catch him some of these days; went to dinner wi' him, did she? Didn't she have no dinner here? Then Mrs Pipkin spoke up with a keen sense of offence.
Ruby was to be allowed to stay at any rate for a month, and was to work in the house for her bread. But she made it a part of her bargain that she should be allowed to go out occasionally. Mrs Pipkin immediately asked after a lover. 'I'm all right, said Ruby. If the lover was what he ought to be, had he not better come and see her? This was Mrs Pipkin's suggestion.
She took the children for an airing in a broken perambulator, nearly as far as Holloway, with exemplary care, and washed up the cups and saucers as though her mind was intent upon them. But Mrs Pipkin's mind was intent on obeying Mr Carbury's behests. She had already hinted something as to which Ruby had made no answer.
He isn't using his own name, and says he wants it kept a dead secret. Just what his game is, I don't know. But there are lots just like him who are hiding behind assumed names. "I'm too harum-scarum a sailor for a quiet home-loving woman like you, so just forget me. Be good to " Here the page ended, and the remainder of the letter was in Miss Pipkin's trunk.
Tommy, Miss Pipkin's black cat, was mincing contentedly at some scraps when the chug-chug of the exhaust shot from the side of the boat. Tommy shot from the cockpit. He paused on the upper step, a startled glare in his eyes. He forgot the tempting morsels; he forgot his rheumatism; he was bent on flight. And fly he did. With a wild yodeling yell he sprang forward.
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