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This, as she saw the clergyman's tall athletic figure entering Mrs. Tapple's tiny garden, "Good-morning, Mr. Walden!" and as he raised his hat, she smiled graciously "I want to send off a French telegram, and I'm afraid it's rather difficult " A glance at Mrs. Tapple explained the rest, and Walden's eyes twinkled mirthfully. "Perhaps I can be of some use, Miss Vancourt," he said. "Shall I try?"
Tapple's small grocery department, and feigned to be absorbed in an admiring survey of peppermint balls and toffee.
"There was certainly a fine aroma in the air," he said "But it seemed to me no more than the customary perfume common to Mrs. Tapple's surroundings. I daresay it was new to you! A country clergyman is perhaps the only human being who has to inure himself to bacon odours as the prevailing sweetness of cottage interiors." Maryllia laughed.
Tapple's pink sun-bonnet hanging beside the placarded 'Post Office Savings Bank' regulations, and a half side of bacon suspended from the ceiling, apparently for 'curing' purposes, immediately above the telegraphic apparatus. After a little delay, the required pale yellow 'Foreign and Colonial' forms were found, and Mrs.
Maryllia nodded, and he walked into the little office. "Let me send off those telegrams for you, Mrs. Tapple," he said. "You know you often allow me to amuse myself in that way! I haven't touched the instrument for a month at least, and am getting quite out of practice. May I come in?" Mrs. Tapple's face shone with relief and gladness. "Well now, Mr.
"It is certainly 'in love," rejoined Primmins, and the faintest suggestion of a wink affected his left eyelid. Thereupon the telegram was 'sent through' to Riversford on its way to London, though not without serious misgivings in Mrs. Tapple's mind as to whether it might not be returned with a 'Gove'nment' query as to its correctness.
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