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Samuel Johnson. But Mr. George spoke them out of his own experience. Mr. Scougall's bride was the widow of a Plymouth publican who had sold his business and retired upon a small farm across the Hamoaze, near the Cornish village of Anthony.
Scougall's freshly upholstered chairs had all been wrapped in holland coverings pending his return. "Mr. Trapp, Harry, is a a chimney-sweep." "Oh!" said I, somewhat ruefully. "But I had rather be a soldier, Miss Plinlimmon!" She still kept her smile, but I could read in it that my pleading was useless; that the decision really lay beyond her. "Boys will be boys, Mr. Trapp."
Scougall's honeymoon, being left to Miss Plinlimmon on the understanding that in emergency she might call in the strong and secular arm of Mr. George. But we all loved Miss Plinlimmon, and never drove her beyond appealing to what she called our better instincts.
"She didn't leave it," he answered. "It left her. The Hospital's scat." "Eh?" "Bust sold up come to an end. Scougall's retired on the donations. He feathered his nest. And Miss Plinlimmon's gone down into Cornwall to live with a Major Brooks a kind of relation of hers, so far as I can make out. They tell me she've come into money." I had a question on my lips, but Mr. Jope interrupted.
In the end her sobs ceased and, still wondering, I dropped off to sleep, nor next day did I dare to question her. But it could not have been long after this that we boys got wind of Mr. Scougall's approaching marriage with a wealthy lady of the town. I must speak of this ceremony, because, as the fates ordained, it gave me my first start in life. Mr.
Scougall's parlour and there found Miss Plinlimmon in conversation with a tall and very stout man: and if her eyelids were pink, I paid more attention to the stout man's, which were rimmed with black a more unusual sight. His neck, too, was black up to a well-defined line; the rest of it, and his cheeks, red with the red of prize beef. "This is the boy hem Revel, of whom we were speaking."
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