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"The old dollars being called in, Davidson's Chinaman thought that the Sissie would be just the thing to collect them from small traders in the less frequented parts of the Archipelago. It's a good business. Such cases of dollars are dumped aft in the ship's lazarette, and you get good freight for very little trouble and space.
I tried to come and talk to you through the door, and she came and dragged me away. Why didn't you tell Miss Todd you'd never even seen the wretched essay?" "Sissie," whispered Diana, "will you tell me what you were doing at Hilary's desk in the middle of the night?" "Why why, surely you never thought "
Then Sissie herself came very silently into the room. "Sit down, my dear. I want to talk to you," he said in his most ingratiating and sympathetic tones. And in quite another tone he addressed her silently: "It's time I taught you a thing or two, my wench." "Yes, father," she responded charmingly to his wily ingratiatingness, and sat down.
Everybody except chorus girls had thought fit to appear at this ball in aid of the admirably charitable Chorus Girls' Aid Association. And as everybody was also on the walls, the dancers had to compete with their portraits a competition in which many of them were well beaten. After they had visited the supper-room, where both Sissie and her mother did wonderful feats of degustation and Mr.
Prohack, though cheerfully grumbling at this, really liked it, for he was of those who think that nothing furnishes a room so well as a woman's hat, provided it be not permanently established. Sissie even took off one shoe, on the plea that it hurt her, and there the trifling article lay, fragile, gleaming and absurd. Mr. Prohack appreciated it even more than the hats.
"Haven't you had the report yet?" Sissie complained. "Miss Warburton was to try to get hold of it to-night." A moment later Machin, in a condition of high excitement due to the betrothal, brought in a large envelope, saying that Miss Warburton had just left it. The envelope contained the report of Messrs. Doy and Doy on the drains of the noble mansion. Mr.
Prohack was touched, and more than ever determined to "be generous in the grand manner and start the simple-minded couple in married life on a scale befitting the general situation. "You'll soon be clearing out of this place, I expect," he began cautiously. "Clearing out!" Sissie repeated. "Why should we? We've got all we need. We haven't the slightest intention of trying to live as you live.
"Gone to Glasgow?" "Yes." "What, just now?" "Ten minutes ago." "Whatever has he gone to Glasgow for?" "I don't know, any more than I know why you went out before dinner and came back after dinner." "Would you like to know why I went out?" Sissie spoke with sudden ingratiatingness. "No, not at all. But I should like to know why you went out without telling anybody.
"You wait till I give you your next dancing-lesson," Sissie retorted, turning and threatening him from the stairs. "It won't be as mild as this afternoon's." He smiled, giving an imitation of the sphinx. He was happy enough as mortals go. His wife was perhaps a little better. And he was gradually launching himself into an industrious career of idleness.
The "really GOOD man" had a very broad back. I saw him signal a sampan to come alongside, get into it, and go off in the direction of a cluster of local steamers anchored close inshore. I said: "He's a seaman, isn't he?" "Yes. Commands that biggish dark-green steamer: 'Sissie Glasgow. He has never commanded anything else but the 'Sissie Glasgow, only it wasn't always the same Sissie.
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