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"Does this mean, sir, that Mr. Dunbar will leave us?" she repeated. "Well, yes, madam that is, Miss, I suppose, in a way practically it would amount to that." "Will you tell me yes or no, please," Miss Quigg's neat little figure was all a-quiver to the tips of her hat plumes.
She had put it on, she told Pop, to make a creditable appearance before the board that night. Jennie was flitting in and out between the sitting-room and the garden, her hands full of blossoms, filling the china jars on the mantel: none of them contained Quigg's contribution.
The professor's views of Quigg's head had, however, made a deep impression upon the owner of it, and had given to Quigg's ordinary observations on the weather, the state of his health, and the other familiar topics to which his remarks were principally addressed, an oracular importance in his own opinion.
Do ye suspect anybody else? Some says a tramp crawled in and upset his pipe." This lie was coined on the spot and issued immediately to see if it would pass. "Mother says she knows who did it, and it'll all come out in time. Cully found the can this morning," said Jennie, leaning against the table. Quigg's jaw fell and his brow knit as Jennie spoke. That was just like the fool, he said to himself.
Perhaps some of the gold pieces in Bagdad had put less warmth and hope into the complainants among the bazaars than had Quigg's beef stew among the fishermen and one-eyed calenders of Manhattan.
Mr. Quigg's draft, with very slight changes and alterations, was not only accepted and adopted, but he was the recipient of the thanks of the other members for the excellent manner in which he had discharged the important duty that had been assigned him. The full committee was then convened by which the unanimous report of the sub-committee was adopted without opposition and without change.
There was written on it in Quigg's bold, round hand: "Good for one roast chicken to bearer." Simmons looked up with a flashing eye. "A dead one!" said he. "Goot!" roared Hildebrant, rocking the table with giant glee. "Dot is right! You gome at mine house at 8 o'clock to der party." There are no more Christmas stories to write.
"They know what I have done," she said aloud. Once when she was a child she had accidentally seen a bloated wretch, a murderer, on his way to the gallows. "I am he," she thought. "I I, Frances." Then the gargoyle came into her mind again. What a capital headpiece it would make for "Quigg's" next column! It was time this week's jokes were sent.
"Have ye any license?" demanded the policeman gruffly. "How many bills have you put up?" "I don't know what you mean by a license," said Ralph, whose only idea regarding licenses was that they were something "to get married with." "Ye don't! Who's your boss?" Ralph explained as best he could Mr. Quigg's occupation and whereabouts, and also intimated that he had posted probably half a dozen bills.
And it was precisely as the last enormous mouthful of cherry pie vanished down Jiggers Quigg's happy throat that the unexpected happened.
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