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Poulter had to fight undauntedly in order to maintain a calling acquaintance with the wives of executive officers, and in fact the highest she had on her list was a commander's lady. When Paymaster Poulter died, and his pension ceased, she gave up the struggle.
"Would you mind if I heard you play?" "Not at all." "My word might go some way with Mr Poulter. See?" said the little woman confidentially. "It's very good of you," remarked Mavis, who was beginning to like the little, shrivelled-up old thing. The woman with the chilblains led the way to a door in a corner of the cloak-room, which Mavis had not noticed before.
Miss Taggart was not very friendly with Mrs. Poulter and Mr. Goacher, and despised Mrs. Mudge because she was low-bred. Miss Everard Miss Taggart dreaded, and accused her of being vicious and spiteful. It was still early in December, but the lodgers in Russell House who had nothing to do that is to say all of them excepting Miss Everard were making plans for Christmas.
It is your morning with Mr. Poulter. And you must take care not to come back later than eleven, Mysie dear; I cannot have him kept waiting. Dolores, do you like to go?
A minute or two later, three grimy, uncouth-looking men came into the hall, whom Mavis took to be gasmen. "Here's the 'Godolphin Band," said Mr Poulter, as he caught sight of them. "All except Baffy: 'e's always late," remarked one of the men. Mavis was introduced to the three members of the band, all of whom seemed to be somewhat abashed by her striking appearance.
Such was her distress at this remissness on the part of the dancing master, that more often than not, when Miss Nippett, after waking from sleep, asked with evident concern if Mr Poulter had been, Mavis would reply: "Yes. But he didn't like to come upstairs and disturb you." For five or six occasions Miss Nippett accepted this explanation, but, at last, she became skeptical of Mavis' statements.
Mavis's request surprised him almost as much as if he had been told that "Turpsichor" herself ached to waltz with him in the publicity of a long night. "I don't believe she's very long to live," said Mavis. "If you could make her a partner, merely in an honorary sense, it would make her last days radiantly happy." "It might be done, my dear," mused Mr Poulter.
It is a favour I could not dream of soliciting from anybody but Mrs. Poulter. It was most inconvenient to Mrs. Poulter to advance twenty pounds at that moment. But she had her own reasons for not wishing that Mr. Goacher should imagine she was straitened. 'I believe I can assist you. Mr. Goacher dropped on his knees and took the lady's hand, kissing it fervently.
"Of course, the statement carried its own refutation, as no gentleman could ever demean himself so much as to kiss another gentleman's wife." "That's what I say," cried Miss Nippett. "But Gellybrand foully libelled me," cried Mr Poulter, with another outburst of anger, "when he stated that I only paid one and fourpence a pound for my tea."
'He was forced to come out in the Psalms; and Poulter, one of the lay-vicars, got anxious about him, and went after him when the Lesson began, found him with his head down on the table in the sacristy, and thought he had fainted, but he was only crying and entirely done up. Manby came just as Poulter brought him in, and gave him a proper good lecture.
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