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You must dine here to-night he is coming. We're all dining with the Hubbards, and they expect you. They have given Hermy some very good diamonds though I should have preferred a cheque, as she'll be horribly poor. But I think Kate Hubbard means to do something about the trousseau Hermy is at Paquin's with her now. You've no idea how delightful all our friends have been.
"Oh, Hermy dear!" she cried, clasping frail hands, "oh, Hermy, you've brought him you've brought me our fairy prince at last!"
Tell me about it now." So presently Tipsipoozie was having his marmalade, which did just as well as jam, and they were all eating slices off the ham, and stuffing them into split buns. "Yes, we thought we might as well do it all in one go," said Hermy, "and it's a hundred and twenty miles, if it's a yard.
"That's my wise dearie!" nodded Mrs. Trapes. "And good luck to ye, Mr. Geoffrey, an' when you find that b'y, say as I wish ah, how I wish I was back of him with a toasting fork, that's all!" Mr. Ravenslee caught up the shabby hat, opened the door, and going out, closed it softly behind him. "Hermy," said Mrs.
But," continued the dying man, slowly and feebly, "it aren't to thank yez as I wanted ye but to give yez something in trust for Miss Hermy ye see, sorr, I shant be here when she comes back to-night, I'll be with little Maggie when the hour strikes my little Maggie! Norah, wife give it to him." Silently Mrs.
"Ann, that asparagus is to be asparagus!" "Such wicked extravagance, an' all for that b'y. Hermy, I'm surprised at ye!" For a long moment after Mrs. Trapes had departed there was silence, while Ravenslee sat gazing where Hermione stood busy at her pastry again. "Mr. Geoffrey," said she at last, "I want to thank you for watching over my boy. Arthur told me how good you were to him while I was away.
"The Guru: the Om, of high caste and extraordinary sanctity," cried Ursy. "The Brahmin from Benares," shrieked Hermy. "The great Teacher! Who do you think he is?" said Ursy. "We never seen him before " "But we recognised him at once " "He recognised us, too, and didn't he run? "Into The Hurst and shut the door " Georgie's deeper calm suddenly quivered like a jelly.
"Ten minutes is up!" she announced as she entered, "and Hermy, if you don't want th' doctor t' see you in your nightdress an' that " "Ann!" gasped Hermione, drawing the folds of her kimono about her. "Anyway, he's coming." Up sprang Hermione, in doing which she lost a slipper. "Give it me!" she pleaded, for Ravenslee had caught it up. "Dear, you have one be content," he answered.
"I said to myself that you would come when the funeral was over, and I wept for poor Hermy as I thought that my lot was so much happier than hers. But people have what they deserve, and Hermy, who has done no such wrong as I have done, is not crushed as I am crushed. It was just, Harry, that the punishment should come from you, but it has come very heavily." "Julia, it was not meant to be so."
After this Hermy was so evidently his darling that there was no further chance for Hermy's younger sister, who had at first promised to be the favourite, and I shall never forget the soft, almost motherly, caressing tones that came from that grey-bearded man with the large round head and strong face, when he sought to comfort the child.
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