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I whispered: "Then show them into the parlour, and say Mr. Pooter will be down directly." I changed my coat, but could not see to do my hair, as Carrie was occupying the glass. Sarah came up, and said it was Mrs. Murray Posh and Mr. Lupin. This was quite a relief. I went down with Carrie, and Lupin met me with the remark: "I say, what did you run away from the window for? Did we frighten you?"
Subsequently Jack Newson went on the Mars, the sea-going craft belonging to the late J. J. Colman, M.P., but this was later than 1875. "Mushell" was the nickname of Joe Butcher, the former skipper of the Henrietta, under Posh, as owner.
Here he smiled sweetly all round the mess. "But you will think of this little, little thing. So little, is it not? The czar! Posh! I slap my fingers I snap my fingers at him. Do I believe in him? No! But the Slav who has done nothing, him I believe. Seventy how much? millions that have done nothing not one thing. Napoleon was an episode." He banged a hand on the table.
Aldis Wright has been unable to trace with certainty the subsequent owner of her, though he has reason to think that she was sold to Sir Cuthbert Quilter. She had served her purpose. She was, as Posh assures me, a "fast and handy little schooner." After her sale FitzGerald still remained the mortgagee of the Meum and Tuum and the Henrietta. But this was not to last indefinitely.
In the day he liked to go to sea with Posh in the latter's punt, the Little Wonder. He must have been a quaint spectacle to the Lowestoft fishermen, for Posh assures me that he always went to sea in a silk hat, and generally wore a "cross-over," or a lady's boa, round his neck.
But this did not break out till the north voyage was over and the Meum and Tuum had been on the home fishing for more than a month. Then Posh began to have the fingering of a good deal of money, and FitzGerald had already had reason to doubt his abilities to keep his credit and debit sides of account in proper order.
"Thomas Newson's, "Pilot, "Felixtow Ferry, "Ipswich. "Yours truly, "EDWARD FITZGERALD." At this time Posh was earning his living as the proprietor of a longshore "punt," or beach lugger. Shrimps and soles fell victims to the longshoremen's trawls, and altogether there were a hundred fish to be caught to one in these days.
He had fired up at an imaginary slight, wrong, whatever he chose to think it, and if he has any excuse at all, it is that, but for his unreasonableness, we should not have this letter. One would have thought that it might have given Posh pause if even he felt disposed to show his independence again. But this "squall" between these two curious partners was not destined to be the last.
In that case, I insisted that threepence buying should be returned to the laundress. Lupin has gone to stay with the Poshs for a few days. I must say I feel very uncomfortable about it. Carrie said I was ridiculous to worry about it. Mr. Posh was very fond of Lupin, who, after all, was only a mere boy.
Whether or not the life-belts fitted or were ever used I can't ascertain. But I believe that one was in existence a year or so ago. The "lines and anchors" were, Posh thinks, lost from his old punt the Gazelle.
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