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Gilman suddenly, "perhaps your ladyship was not quite pleased at me rowing-about with Miss Thompkins especially after I had taken her for a walk." He smiled, but his voice was rather wistful. Audrey liked him prodigiously in that moment. "Foolish man!" she replied, with a smile far surpassing his, and she rested on her oars, taking care to keep the boat in the middle of the channel.
Also they had thought that it would be nice for the travellers to be met at the terminus, especially as Miss Ingate had been very particularly recommended to Miss Thompkins by a whole group of people in London. It was Miss Thompkins who had supplied the address of reliable furnished rooms, and she and Nick would personally introduce the ladies to their landlady, who was a sweet creature.
"Yes," said Mr. Gilman. "Miss Thompkins. Before I knew for certain that Mrs. Moncreiff could come with you, Hortense, I asked Miss Thompkins if she would care to come. I only got her answer this morning it was delayed. I meant to tell you.... You are a friend of Miss Thompkins, aren't you?" He turned to Audrey. Audrey replied gaily that she knew Tommy very well. "I'd better go up," said Mr.
Gilman had somehow mentioned Miss Thompkins, whereupon Madame Piriac had declared that Miss Thompkins involved Miss Nickall, who after a complete recovery from the broken arm had returned for a while to her studio. And then Mr. Gilman had closed the list, saying that six was enough, and exactly the right number.
They glanced at each other very intimately, like long-established allies who fear an aggression and are ready for it. Then steps were heard. Miss Thompkins entered. "Well," drawled Miss Thompkins, gazing first at Audrey and then at Madame Piriac. "Of all the loveliest shocks Say, Musa " Behind her stood Musa. It appeared that he had been able to get away by the same train as Tommy.
The others barely learned to read and write and cipher a little, Curtis and Wilson barely that, Hiram got into Greenleaf's Grammar and learned to parse, but never to write or speak correctly, and he ciphered nearly through Dayball's Arithmetic. I went through Dayball and then Thompkins and Perkins and got well on into algebra in the district school.
"Well, thank Gawd it wasn't the water," cried Thompkins. "It's easier to get along without food than it is without water. We can eat our shoes if worse comes to worst, but we couldn't drink 'em." As he spoke Wilson had been boring a hole in one of the water kegs, and as Spider held a tin cup he tilted the keg to pour a draft of the precious fluid.
Gilman hear me called Tommy in this hotel," laughed Miss Thompkins, who was attired with an unusual richness, as she advanced towards Miss Ingate and Audrey. "And what are you doing here?" she questioned Audrey. "I'm staying here," said Audrey. "But I've only just arrived. I'm advance agent for my husband. How are you? And what are you doing here? I thought you hated London."
Audrey was left alone and conspicuous on the dais. "Charming, isn't he?" said Miss Thompkins, arriving with Miss Ingate in front of the flower-screened platform. "Oh! he is!" answered Audrey with sincerity, leaning downwards. "Has he told you all about the Russian princesses?" "Oh, yes," said Audrey, pleased. "I thought he would," said Miss Thompkins, with a peculiar intonation.
Edward L. Partridge, No. 19, and Dr. Between Ninth and Tenth, Charles De Rham, No. 24, Mrs. George Ethridge, No. 27, Mrs. Peter F. Collier, No. 29, and Edwin W. Coggeshall, No. 30. On the next block, Frank B. Wiborg, No. 40, Gen. Rush Hawkins, No. 42, Miss Elsie Borg, No. 43, Howard Carter Dickinson, No. 45, Mrs. J.P. Cassidy, No. 49, and William W. Thompkins, No. 68.
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