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Plume, already bent with age, would strike the floor with the ebony stick she always carried, and glare at the erect, defiant spinster 'That horrud, dirrty cat; its always in the room! Then Miss Waghorn: 'It's a very nice cat, Madame' she always called her Madame 'and when I was a young girl I was taught to be kind to animals. 'The drawing-room is not the place for animals, came the pricking answer.
Miss Waghorn found the quarters good enough for her own more imposing charms and not less brilliant wardrobe. Walking on, at Cambridge Circus he came face to face with Miss Sparkes herself, accompanied by Miss Waghorn. To his hat salute and amiable smile Polly replied with a fierce averting of the look. Her friend nodded cheerfully, and they passed.
However, the men considered him more of a troublesome officer than a good one; and, from a habit he had of moving his fingers about when walking the quarter-deck, the men said he was an organ-player from London: but I have no reason to know this was the case. The captain's name was Waghorn.
Government hitherto has resisted the efforts of the Sydney merchants, and refused to sanction the proposal of Mr. Waghorn, but chiefly upon the ground of expense. And there is no doubt that Ministers would be guilty of a gross misdemeanour, were they to consent to apply 100,000 pounds per annum of the public money in furtherance of a scheme designed for the exclusive benefit of a single colony.
These we understood to be the abodes of officers in the Pasha's service. Mehemet Ali is said to be extremely unwilling to allow English people to build houses for themselves at Suez; while he freely grants permission to their residence at Alexandria and Cairo, he seems averse to their settling upon the shores of the Red Sea. Mr. Waghorn and Mr.
When there he caught sight of the captain struggling in the water, and a boat coming to take him off he refused assistance, till Captain Waghorn and the seaman supporting him were received on board. The captain's son, poor lad, who had been below, lost his life.
'There's Tante Jeanne grand-cieling as usual, Mother would say to her husband, who, being a little deaf, would answer, 'What? and Tante Jeanne, overhearing him, would re-read the accident for his especial benefit, while the governesses recounted personal experiences among themselves, and Miss Waghorn made eager efforts to take part in it all, or tell her little tales of fairies and Cornish cream....
"I would not stickle about hours, but the money and the drink are very just." "If Hell-house yard is astir," said Waghorn, "there will be a good deal to be seen yet." "It's grave," said Master Nixon. "What think you of a deputation there? It might come to good." "I should like to hear the top-sawyer from London," said Juggins.
They formed a storm-centre that moved from salon to dining-room, and they squabbled acutely about everything the weather, the heating, the opening or shutting of windows, the details of the food, the arrangement of the furniture, even the character of the cat. Miss Waghorn loved. The bickerings were incessant. They only had to meet for hot disagreement to break out. Mrs.
While the famille anglaise renewed noisily their excitement of the Magic Box, and while the talk in the hall went on and on, re-hashing the details of the cook's marvellous experience, and assuming entirely new proportions, Miss Waghorn glanced about her seeking whom she might devour and her eye caught Henry Rogers, listening as usual in silence.
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