Ship's Company, the Entire Collection by W. W. Jacobs
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"They wouldn't be that," said Mrs. Jobson. "I'm trying to improve," said her husband. "O' course, it's no use dressing up and behaving wrong, and yesterday I bought a book what tells you all about behaviour." "Well done!" said the delighted Mrs. Jobson. Mr. Jobson was glad to find that her opinion on his purchase was shared by the rest of the family. Encouraged by their approval, he told them of the benefit he was deriving from it; and at tea-time that day, after a little hesitation, ventured to affirm that it was a book that might do them all good. "Hear, hear!" said Gladys. "For one thing," said Mr. Jobson, slowly, "I didn't know before that it was wrong to blow your tea; and as for drinking it out of a saucer, the book says it's a thing that is only done by the lower orders." "If you're in a hurry?" demanded Mr. Bert Jobson, pausing with his saucer half way to his mouth. "If you're in anything," responded his father. "A gentleman would rather go without his tea than drink it out of a saucer. That's the sort o' thing Bill Foley would do." Mr. Bert Jobson drained his saucer thoughtfully. |
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