“Nothing was ever done,” Miss Brett asserted, “without a certain element of
Faith. Until
that moment, Jarvis had imagined the child to be safe in the wet-nurse’s cottage. "O lud! what an exquisite box!" cried Edgeworth Bess. “It is in your hands from now on, Shar. Spurlock gave his full name and tremblingly inscribed it upon the
certificate of marriage. ’
He endured the inevitable scold with patience, saluted Mrs Chalkney’s faded
cheek, and went off to endure the necessary delay with what patience he could
muster. The smells of skewered
fennel, roast chicken, and broiled pheasant saturated the
air, and she could smell other wonderful aromas about
them. She set her fingers in the hair and tugged, drawing him to a sitting
posture and stooping so that her eyes would be on the level with his when he
awoke. She turned the gas up in her little sitting-room, and sank
wearily into an easy chair. Part 2
She found the younger generation of the Widgetts engaged in languid
reminiscences, and all, as they expressed it, a “bit decayed. From the unlovely hillside his glance strayed to the several five-story towers of
the pawnshops. As Leonardo had himself
pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the
unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who
could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them
away?
‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal
her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of
an English lady. ’
‘So Charvill did tell him,’ Gerald said, once more staring into the hole in the
wall.
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