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If she had been told beforehand that she could be happy in a Bloomsbury boarding-house, or within any reasonable distance of such people as Miss Bishop and Mr. Soper, the thing would have appeared to her absurd. And yet it was so. She was happy among these dreadful people, as she had not been happy at Hampstead among the cultured and refined.
Notwithstanding what the doctor had said, I could not get the idea out of my head, and longed for morning, that I might set off and make a tour round the island with Jim, who, I knew, would be ready to come with me, as would Miles Soper and some of the others.
Call that pleasant?" Mr. Spinks chuckled behind his table napkin. "He means a centre piece. Wouldn't he make a handsome one!" Mr. Soper combined a certain stateliness of carriage with a restless insignificance of feature. "We all know," said Mrs. Downey, "that Mr. Rickman is a very reserved gentleman. He has his own thoughts." "Thoughts? I've got my thoughts.
What Mr. Soper wanted to know was whether Rickman could recommend 'Armouth as a holiday resort? Could he tell him of any first-class commercial hotel or boarding-house down there? To which Rickman replied that he really couldn't tell him anything at all. "Perhaps," said Mrs. Downey, peering over the edge of the table-cloth she was helping to fold. "Perhaps he has his reasons."
Crane bedewed her own kerchief with some of the eau de Cologne of native manufacture, said on its label to be much superior to the German article. It was a relief to Mrs. and the Miss Cranes when the bell rang and the next guests were admitted. Deacon and Mrs. Soper, Deacon Soper of the Rev. Mr. Fairweather's church, and his lady. Mrs.
"Harry? Who is Harry?" "Why, haven't you heard? Harry Soper. I'm engaged to him." "The lieutenant?" "Certainly. He's going to be promoted, though, if he ever gets on the firing line. It's not his fault that he has to do duty in the walled city. He's aching to get out and fight. But father " Here she paused, her lips coming together with a firmness that boded ill.
Soper was not a spectacle that could be calmly contemplated; but he hoped that by providing her with a refuge from Mr Soper he might induce her to stay till the moment of his own departure. And there was another selfish consideration. It was impossible to see her, to talk to her with any pleasure in the public drawing-room.
He speaks the language." Mr. Soper replied that in that case perhaps Mr. Rickman would oblige him with the Greek for "crumby bits." At the moment Mr. Rickman did not look like obliging Mr. Soper with anything. The provocation was certainly immense. Mr. Soper's voice inspired him with a fury of disgust.
Crane bedewed her own kerchief with some of the eau de Cologne of native manufacture, said on its label to be much superior to the German article. It was a relief to Mrs. and the Miss Cranes when the bell rang and the next guests were admitted. Deacon and Mrs. Soper, Deacon Soper of the Rev. Mr. Fairweather's church, and his lady. Mrs.
"Judge," he said, "do you think, that, before we commence refreshing ourselves at the tables, it would be the proper thing to crave a to request Deacon Soper or some other elderly person to ask a blessing?" The Judge looked as grave as if he were about giving the opinion of the Court in the great India-rubber case.
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