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, his copy-book before him, 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. and that-- Artaxerxes …