"
As they were leaving the room Panky sidled up to my father and said,
"There is a point, Mr. Higgs, which you can settle for me, though I feel
pretty certain how you will settle it. I think that a corruption has
crept into the text of the very beautiful--"
At this moment, as my father, who saw what was coming, was wondering what
in the world he could say, George came up to him and said, "Mr. Higgs, my
mother wishes me to take you down into the store-room, to make sure that
she has put everything for you as you would like it." On this my father
said he would return directly and answer what he knew would be Panky's
question.
When Yram had shewn what she had prepared--all of it, of course,
faultless--she said, "And now, Mr. Higgs, about our leave-taking. Of
course we shall both of us feel much. I shall; I know you will; George
will have a few more hours with you than the rest of us, but his time to
say good-bye will come, and it will be painful to both of you. I am glad
you came--I am glad you have seen George, and George you, and that you
took to one another. I am glad my husband has seen you; he has spoken to
me about you very warmly, for he has taken to you much as George did. I
am very, very glad to have seen you myself, and to have learned what
became of you--and of your wife.
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