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"My dear Virginia," said a voice at her back, and, turning, she found Mrs. Peachey, a trifle rheumatic, but still plump and pretty. "I'm so glad you come to the old market, my child. I suppose you cling to it because of your mother, and then things are really so much dearer uptown, don't you think so?" "Yes, I dare say they are, but I've got into the habit of coming here."
'D' you suppose I can't die like a gentleman? He turns to Peachey Peachey that was crying like a child. 'I've brought you to this, Peachey, says he. 'Brought you out of your happy life to be killed in Kafiristan, where you was late Commander-in-Chief of the Emperor's forces. Say you forgive me, Peachey. 'I do, says Peachey.
Dravot came out with his crown on his head, swinging his arms and stamping his feet, and looking more pleased than Punch. "'For the last time, drop it, Dan, says I, in a whisper; 'Billy Fish here says that there will be a row. "'A row among my people! says Dravot. 'Not much. Peachey, you're a fool not to get a wife too.
Were more than safe now. Then he bangs the butt of his gun for a gavel and says: By virtue of the authority vested in me by my own right hand and the help of Peachey, I declare myself Grand-Master of all Freemasonry in Kafiristan in this the Mother Lodge o the country, and King of Kafiristan equally with Peachey! At that he puts on his crown and I puts on mine I was doing Senior Warden and we opens the Lodge in most ample form.
Fanny know that he was here; he would wait in the dining-room. It was not yet dark, but objects could only just be distinguished; the gloom supplied Horace with a suggestion at which he laughed to himself. He had laid down his hat and cane, when a voice surprised him. 'Who's that? asked some one from the back of the room. 'Oh, are you there, Mr. Peachey? I've come to see Fanny.
Now, Sir, let me introduce you to Brother Peachey Carnehan, that's him, and Brother Daniel Dravot, that is me, and the less said about our professions the better, for we have been most things in our time soldier, sailor, compositor, photographer, proof-reader, street-preacher, and correspondents of the 'Backwoodsman' when we thought the paper wanted one.
Of course I shall never speak to her again. You were quite right when you said my sisters were worthless. Peachey had never permitted himself any such remark. 'I will have no one but you, my dear, good, sweet husband. So on, over several pages.
"And you really mean that you can't get rid of her? Why, my dear Lucy, I wouldn't stand it a day! Now, there was my Mandy. Such an excellent servant until she got her head turned " This from Mrs. Tom Peachey, an energetic little woman, with a rosy face and a straight gray "bang" cut short over her eyebrows. "But, Lucy, my child, are you doing right to submit to impertinence?
"'Go to your blasted priests, then! I said, and I was sorry when I made that remark, but it did hurt me sore to find Daniel talking so superior, when I'd drilled all the men and done all he told me. "'Don't let's quarrel, Peachey, says Daniel, without cursing.
Two hundred and fifty thousand men, ready to cut in on Russia's right flank when she tries for India! Peachey, man, he says, chewing his beard in great hunks, 'we shall be Emperors Emperors of the Earth! Rajah Brooke will be a suckling to us. I'll treat with the Viceroy on equal terms. I'll ask him to send me twelve picked English twelve that I know of to help us govern a bit.
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