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"I am sure I can manage as long as I am in by nine o'clock." "But why nine o'clock, my dear Cinderella?" "Because I have to interview the cook when he returns from the bazaar. Herr Krauss is something of a gourmand and rather querulous about his food, and he often brings in one or two men to tiffin or dinner." "A nice, amusing change," said Shafto. "You must find old Krauss a bit monotonous.
Hitherto their acquaintance had been slight and, when he had been to tea at "Heidelberg," the master of the house was invariably absent. "How is Mrs. Krauss? I hope she is better." "No, she has been pretty bad the last few weeks her niece is coming home in a day or two and that will cheer her up."
You could make it your business to find out and destroy the hypodermic syringe or perhaps your aunt takes it in pellets. I should interview the ayah and inform her that you know the nature of her mistress's complaint; threaten that you will tell Mr. Krauss and have her discharged. I expect she gets enormous wages and has feathered her nest handsomely.
Firing ceased just as the first streak of light appeared in the eastern sky, and when the smoke of battle cleared away, Jack and Frank saw that the British victory had been complete. Only two German ships were still above water. These were the Bismarck, flagship of Admiral Krauss, and the Hamburg. The others had all been sunk. The Hamburg, the lads could see, was slowly sinking by the head.
A crowd of lazy retainers, who were hanging about, gaped in silence upon the new arrival. "Now, I'll take you to your aunt at once," said Krauss, descending heavily from the car, but making no effort to assist his niece.
Herr Krauss naturally attributed this change to her niece, and showed his gratitude to Sophy in various abrupt ways, suffering her to mix with the English society without sneers or interference. Sophy did not now see so much of the German community; she was aware that Mrs.
When Sophy Leigh returned from May Myo she had half expected her aunt to meet her at the station, and was much concerned to discover, when she arrived home, that Mrs. Krauss had suffered a serious collapse, had not been out of the house for weeks, but was confined to her own apartments, nursed and attended by the ever-faithful Lily.
Why did you not wire for me? I would have come back at once." "No, no, no!" murmured Mrs. Krauss as she rolled her head slowly from side to side and closed her drowsy, dark eyes. "But yes, yes, yes! and when you wrote to me you never said one word about being ill though I might have suspected it. Your writing was so feeble so shockingly shaky.
Krauss would linger for fifteen minutes, sometimes for longer, talking over netsukes and Hong Kong with Ah Shee.
One was chained to Burma by dire poverty and a drunken husband; the other, who had been a wealthy woman of considerable local importance, was now a childless widow, supporting herself with difficulty by means of a second-rate boarding-house. To these old friends, and in many other cases, Mrs. Krauss had proved a generous and tactful helper.
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