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"That is my name." "You want somebody to do for you?" "You mean a housekeeper!" "Didn't say anything about housekeeper. Said you wanted somebody to do for you cook and clean the place up. Heard 'em talking about it in the shop this afternoon. Old lady in green bonnet was asking Mother Hammond if she knew of anyone." "Mrs. Postwhistle yes, I did ask her to look out for someone for me.
Herring's particular instructions were," explained Mrs. Postwhistle, "that, above all things, I was not to lend you any money." "When you have read that," replied Miss Bulstrode, handing her the letter, "perhaps you will agree with me that Herring is an ass." Mrs. Postwhistle read the letter and produced the half-crown. "Better get a shave with part of it," suggested Mrs. Postwhistle.
Postwhistle, "and possibly also 'e may take it into what 'e calls is 'ead to be a tiger or a bull, and then perhaps before 'e's through with it I'll be beyond the reach of remedies." "Leave it to me," said Mr. Clodd, rising and searching for his hat. "I know old Gladman; I'll have a talk with him." "You might get a look at that letter if you can," suggested Mrs.
Then Peter returned, accompanied by a large, restful lady, to whom surprise one felt it instinctively had always been, and always would remain, an unknown quantity. Tommy rose. "That's the the article," explained Peter. Mrs. Postwhistle compressed her lips and slightly tossed her head. It was the attitude of not ill-natured contempt from which she regarded most human affairs.
Glancing through almost any illustrated paper of the period, the problem would have been solved for him. A photograph of Mrs. Postwhistle, taken quite recently, he would have encountered with this legend: "Before use of Professor Hardtop's certain cure for corpulency." Beside it a photograph of Mrs.
"That's right," said Mrs. Postwhistle; "I remember seeing 'er there leastways, it was an 'er right enough then. What 'ave you done with your clothes?" "They weren't mine," explained Tommy. "They were things what Mrs. Hammond had lent me." "Is that your own?" asked Mrs. Postwhistle, indicating the blue silk garibaldi. "Yes." "What went with it?" "Tights. They were too far gone."
'E's as sensible as most men, if that's saying much, the moment 'e's outside the front door; but in the 'ouse well, I suppose the fact is that 'e's a lunatic." "Don't seem no hiding anything from you," Mrs. Postwhistle remarked Mr. Clodd in tones of admiration. "Does he ever get violent?" "Don't know what 'e would be like if 'e 'appened to fancy 'imself something really dangerous," answered Mrs.
"That is, if you are going to play the fool much longer." "Miss Bulstrode" opened his eyes. Mrs. Postwhistle went on with her breakfast. "Don't tell them," said Johnny; "not just for a little while, at all events." "Nothing to do with me," replied Mrs. Postwhistle.
"Miss Bulstrode" having despatched an excellent supper of cold mutton and bottled beer, leant back in her chair and crossed her legs. "I have often wondered," remarked Miss Bulstrode, her eyes fixed upon the ceiling, "what a cigarette would taste like." "Taste nasty, I should say, the first time," thought Mrs. Postwhistle, who was knitting.
To-morrow we can think what's to be done." "To-morrow" had always been Peter's lucky day. At the mere mention of the magic date his spirits invariably rose. He now turned upon Tommy a countenance from which all hesitation was banished. "Very well, Tommy," said Mr. Peter Hope, "you can sleep here to-night. Go with Mrs. Postwhistle, and she'll show you your room." The black eyes shone.
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