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The passer in the street in the evening sees the maid-servant leaning on the area-gate in sweet converse with some one leaning on the other side; or in the park, which is still too damp for anything but true affection, he sees her seated by the side of one who is able to protect her from the policeman, and hears her sigh, "How sweet it is to be with those we love to be with!"
She'll come out again; she's one of the gues's, she is, I said, 'and him too, and I'll wait till she does come out and then I'll catch her and have it out with her even if it means policemen. And the area-gate being unfastened, I slipped down the area-steps, sir, with my eye on the front-door. And that was what did me.
Having both given the same evidence, on this point, they were next asked whether any person, besides the old woman, had visited the deceased lady or had on any pretence obtained access to her in the interval. Both swore positively that there had not even been a knock at the house-door in the interval, and that the area-gate was locked, and the key in the possession of the landlady.
The day following saw her started bright and early for work at the Shermans'. When she arrived at the area-gate and rang, there was no response, and though she waited a reasonable time, and then rang and rang again, nobody answered the bell. "They must be up," she said, settling down to business with a steady thumb on the electric button.
The beggar had stood before the area-gate for a long time, and no one had paid the slightest attention to him. He was an old man with long gray hair, and a faded, ragged coat, whose tatters fluttered madly to and fro every time the wind blew. He was very tall and gaunt, and his back was bent.
On returning home one evening after our walk, we passed, as we often did, through the street in which I had formerly lived. Susan was leading her little sister, who, on her part, clutched me in a way very unlike the gentleness which Susan bestowed upon her. On arriving at the well-known house, we saw Sarah standing at the area-gate. We stopped to speak to her.
I linger up on deck, half hiding myself about the place, till I see some quartermaster eying me suspiciously and then I creep down into the little hole which I occupy with three of Mrs. Crompton's children and then I cry myself to sleep. But I don't call that going to bed. 'Take a turn now. 'I shall feel like the housemaid talking to her follower through the area-gate.
'Well? said Nicholas, advancing towards him on tiptoe. 'All right, replied Newman, in high glee. 'All ready; nobody at home. Couldn't be better. Ha! ha! With this fortifying assurance, he stole past a street-door, on which Nicholas caught a glimpse of a brass plate, with 'BOBSTER, in very large letters; and, stopping at the area-gate, which was open, signed to his young friend to descend.
Be sure nothing is neglected." "Yes'm," said Martha. The next morning Eliza met her at the area-gate, showing a face of ominous sympathy, wagging a doleful head. "What'd I tell you?" she exclaimed before she had even unlatched the spring-lock. "That young villyan has a head on him old enough to be his father's, if so be he ever had one. He's deep as a well.
The passer in the street in the evening sees the maid-servant leaning on the area-gate in sweet converse with some one leaning on the other side; or in the park, which is still too damp for anything but true affection, he sees her seated by the side of one who is able to protect her from the policeman, and hears her sigh, "How sweet it is to be with those we love to be with!"
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