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'It's a fact though, said Miss Waghorn with decision, 'and now I must go and write my letters, and then finish a bit of lace I'm doing. You will excuse me? She rose, made a little bow, and left the table. Mother watched her go. 'What has come over the old lady? she thought. 'She seems to be getting back her mind and memory too. How very odd!
She sighed, and fluttered into her tiny room to take her finery off, finery that had once been worn in Scotland and had reached her by way of Cook and la petite vitesse in the Magic Box. And presently she fluttered out again and summoned her sister. The Postmaster had gone to bed; the kitchen girl was washing up the last dishes; Miss Waghorn would hardly come down again. The salon was deserted.
"We had a Chartist here the other day, but he did not understand our case at all." "I heard him," said Master Nixon, "but what's his Five Points to us? Why he ayn't got tommy among them." "Nor long stints," said Waghorn. "Nor butties," said Juggins. "He's a pretty fellow to come and talk to us," said a collier. "He had never been down a pit in all his life."
I was sorry to hear that Mr Williams, the carpenter, whose advice, had it been followed, would have saved the ship, was drowned; his body was picked up directly afterwards, and carried on board the Victory, where it was laid on the hearth before the galley-fire, in the hopes that he might recover, but life was extinct. Captain Waghorn, though he could not swim, was saved.
Lesseps considered his views, and some years after made the acquaintance of Lieutenant Waghorn, favorably known in connection with the Overland Route to India by the way of Egypt. The route by descending the Euphrates River to the head of the Persian Gulf was also considered.
That night Bob Cross told me that Mary and her mother were quite willing to assist, and that they thought it would be a very good introduction to old Waghorn: that we must expect some religious scruples at first, but we must persevere, and they had no doubt that the old man would contrive to get the young man over to Cherbourg, or some other place on the other side; that we had better call on him in the evening, and they would be out of the way.
President—Mr. Carter. Vice-Presidents—Mr. Truck and Mr. Waghorn. ‘PROFESSOR QUEERSPECK exhibited an elegant model of a portable railway, neatly mounted in a green case, for the waistcoat pocket.
Wonders he did, to be sure, and then ran away, leaving Kleber, to be murdered, in the lurch a few hundred yards from the spot where these disquisitions are written. But what are his wonders compared to Waghorn?
President Mr. Carter. Vice-Presidents Mr. Truck and Mr. Waghorn. 'PROFESSOR QUEERSPECK exhibited an elegant model of a portable railway, neatly mounted in a green case, for the waistcoat pocket.
Miss Waghorn talked freely of Polly Sparkes, repeating all the angry things that Polly had said, and persistingly wanting to know what the "bother" was all about. "It's for her own good," said Gammon with significant brevity. He did not choose to say more or to ask any questions which might turn to Polly's disadvantage.
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