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Runciman, who had not only been the nurse of all the Avories, but of Mrs. Avory before them, when Mrs. Avory was a slip of a girl named Janet Easton. Runcie was then quite young herself, and why she was suddenly called Mrs. no one ever quite knew, for she had never married. And now she was getting on for sixty, and had not much to do except sympathize with the Avories and reprove the servants.
"No proper washing or anything," she would say. "Cheer up, Runcie," Gregory would reply; "you're not going." "And glad I am I'm not," she would answer. "I wish you were, Runcie, and then we'd show you in the villages as 'The Old-Woman-Who-Can't-See-Any-Fun-in-Caravaning' Walk up! Walk up! A penny a peep!" "A clever dog. He knows the difference between an attack and a feeling of faintness.
Avory and Runcie sat with them while they ate it. "You must be glad to be back," Runcie said, "and to sleep in nice beds once more." "Oh, Runcie," said Hester, "you don't really understand anything." "I understand what King Edward's head is like on a shilling," said Runcie, with a little twinkle at Janet. Janet blushed. "What a shame," she said, "to tell that story!
Avory, and picture postcards for Runcie and Collins. The budget for X. they kept, as they had not brought his address with them. They resumed their journey the next morning, a little depressed in spirits, for the end was so near. It was now Monday, and they had to be home again that is to say, in their home without wheels to-morrow night, and the thought was not exhilarating.
On those evenings on which he came to "The Gables" Mr. Lenox always looked in on her for a little gossip; and this was called his "runcible spoon" the joke being that Mr. Lenox and Runcie were engaged to be married. And now you know the Avory family root and branch.
Mrs. Avory agreed, and they trooped off, after the briefest lunch, taking Horace Campbell and the Rotherams with them. They had been gone two or three hours, and Mrs. Avory was sitting talking with Runcie, when Eliza Pollard brought a card on the brass tray that Janet had repoussed for her mother's last Christmas present. It ran: MR. HENRY AMORY The Red House, Chiswick, W.
In this way it was settled that the Great Experiment might be tried, especially as so wise a woman as Collins and so old an ally as Runcie were not against it. Both, indeed, were of Uncle Christopher's opinion that the self-help and self-reliance which the caravan would lead to would be of the greatest use.
Jane Masters did not hold with fickleness in love in fact, she couldn't abide it and therefore she was steadily true to a young man called 'Erb, who looked after the lift at the Stores, and was a particular friend of Gregory's in consequence. No man who had charge of a lift could fail to be admired by Gregory. Finally and very likely she ought to have come first was Runcie, or Mrs.
Runcie never became an enthusiast, but she allowed herself to be interested, if cautionary. "To think of the nice comfortable beds you will be leaving," she would say. "A horse is a vain thing for safety," she would say. "The blisters you'll get on your poor feet!" she would say. "The indigestion!" she would say. "Living like gypsies," she would say.
"Oh, yes," said Gregory, "there's Runcie. I'm sure she'd love this one of the curate being pulled both ways at once by two fat women. She's so religious." After tea they walked to Shottery to see Anne Hathaway's cottage, although not even Hester could be very keen about the poet's wife. Hester, indeed, had it firmly in her head that she was not kind to him.
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