keep your eye on your uncle."

Betimes they came in to breakfast where Anthea awaited them at the head
of the table. Then who so demure, so gracious and self-possessed, so
sweetly sedate as she. But the Cavalier in the picture above the carved
mantel, versed in the ways of the world, and the pretty tricks and wiles
of the Beau Sex Feminine, smiled down at Bellew with an expression of
such roguish waggery as said plain as words: "We know!" And Bellew,
remembering a certain pair of slender ankles that had revealed
themselves in their hurried flight, smiled back at the cavalier, and it
was all he could do to refrain from winking outright.



CHAPTER VIII

_Which tells of Miss Priscilla, of peaches, and of Sergeant Appleby late
of the 19th Hussars_

Small Porges was at his lessons. He was perched at the great oak table
beside the window, pen in hand, and within easy reach of Anthea who sat
busied with her daily letters and accounts. Small Porges was laboriously
inscribing in a somewhat splashed and besmeared copy-book the rather
surprising facts that:

A stitch in time, saves nine. 9.

That:

The Tagus, a river in Spain. R.