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"You have some small sum of money of your own every year, have you not?" Mrs. de Tracy asked. "Ten pound a year, ma'am; the same that me 'usband left me; two 'undred pounds 'e 'ad saved and 't is in an annuity; that's all I 'ave that and me plum tree." "The plum tree is not yours, either, Elizabeth; that belongs to the land," said Mrs. de Tracy curtly.
"But what's become of Maggs's?" "Maggs's left a week ago come Tuesday. I know, because they used to buy their milk of me. They were the first a'most, and the last was the Menagerie and Gavel's Roundabouts. They packed up last night. It must be a wearin' life," commented the shopwoman. "But for my part I like the shows, and so I tell Damper that's my 'usband.
But the broad, low bed looked very comfortable, and there was a bath-room next door. Madame Wachner showed her guest the bath-room with great pride. "This is the 'English comfortable," she said, using the quaint phrase the French have invented to express the acme of domestic luxury. "My 'usband will never allow me to take a 'ouse that has no bath-room.
"He snatched a lady's purse just as she was stepping aboard the French boat with her 'usband. 'Twelve pounds in it in gold, two peppermint lozenges, and a postage stamp." He shook his 'ead, and put his 'elmet on agin. "Holding it in her little 'and as usual," he ses. "Asking for trouble, I call it.
"Ah," said the politic Leander, "but some people are saved having resort to Art for improvement, and we oughtn't to blame them as are less favoured for trying to render themselves more agreeable as spectacles, ought we?" "And if every one thought with you," added his aunt, with distinctly inferior tact, "where would your poor dear 'usband have been, Mrs. Collum, ma'am?"
“Well,” he continued with the same gravity, “I may unfortunately have occasion to consult a doctor——” “There’s Dr Smith,” interrupted Mrs Gabbon, her equanimity quite restored by his ecclesiastical tone and the mention of ailments; “’e attended my poor dear ’usband hall through his last illness; an huncommon clever doctor, sir, as I ought to know, sir, bein’——”
If a man can't get 'is own way he eases 'is mind with a little nasty language, and then forgets all about it; if a woman can't get 'er own way she flies into a temper and reminds you of something you oughtn't to ha' done ten years ago. Wot a woman would do whose 'usband had never done anything wrong I can't think. I remember a young feller telling me about a row he 'ad with 'is wife once.
Saxham 'as come in before they'd bin pull down, an' then O William! there was everythink in that room on Gawd's good earth a 'usband could ask for to make 'im 'appy, except the wife's 'art beatin' warm and lovin' in the middle of it all!" "Cripps!... You don't never mean ...?" He gasped. "Wot? Don't the Doctor make no odds to 'er? A Man Like That?" ...
I bear no malice now, Cap'en Cuttle you needn't fear that I'm a going to cast any reflections. I hope to go to the altar in another spirit. Here Mrs MacStinger paused, and drawing herself up, and inflating her bosom with a long breath, said, in allusion to the victim, 'My 'usband, Cap'en Cuttle!
Oh, she puts my back up properly! No class, of course that's where it is. But this 'ere nurse well, you know, miss, she won't 'ave no nonsense; so there we are. And, of course, you're bound to 'ave 'ighsteria, a bit losin' her 'usband as young as that." Gyp could feel his wicked old smile even before she raised herself. But what did it matter if he did guess?
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