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'Well, I don't ask for that; but it's just as you like. 'Then I will pay you five and sixpence at once. Be so kind as to let me have a receipt. So Miss Madden established herself at Lavender Hill, and dwelt there alone for three months. She received letters frequently, but only one person called upon her. This was her sister Monica, now serving at a draper's in Walworth Road.
But on the second day after her departure, when Korney gave him a bill from a fashionable draper's shop, which Anna had forgotten to pay, and announced that the clerk from the shop was waiting, Alexey Alexandrovitch told him to show the clerk up. "Excuse me, your excellency, for venturing to trouble you.
Here the gate-keeper stood up, and held out both his hands, palms upward, towards the draper on the other side of the table. "Mr. The little prophet's head as he stood, did not reach the level of the draper's as he sat, but at this Drew dropped his head on his hands upon the table, as if bowed down by a weight of thought and feeling and worship.
In reading of Maggie's early indiscretions, we hardened, grey-headed reviewers as we are feel something like a renewal of the shame and mortification with which, long decades of years ago, we read of the weaknesses of Frank and Rosamond, as if we ourselves were the little girl who made the mistake of choosing the big, bright-coloured bottle from the chemist's window, or the little boy who allowed himself to be deceived by the flattery of the lady in the draper's shop.
Draper's voice faltered, and the resemblance vanished as suddenly as it had appeared. "No; you couldn't go to him with it," said Millner slowly. "And since they say here that you know: that they've got your letter proving it " The muscles of Draper's face quivered as if a blinding light had been swept over it. "For God's sake, Millner it's all right?"
They copied their friend's hats and neckwear and shoes and her mannerisms of speech, were miserable if she neglected them for a day, furiously jealous of each other, and raised to the seventh heaven by attention from her. Just at present the only girl admitted frequently to Mrs. Draper's intimacy was Eleanor Hubert.
'Oh, I am sure she must be! What a wonderful person! 'It occurs to me that she might help Monica. 'Oh, do you think she would? exclaimed Virginia, with eager attention. 'How grateful we should be! 'Where is Monica employed? 'At a draper's in Walworth Road. She is worked to death. Every week I see a difference in her, poor child.
I had to confess that I had not read a line of his work, that with the exception of Draper's History of Civilisation, which had come by chance in my way, I had during all those five years read nothing but the old books which had always been on our shelves. He said he knew Draper's History, and it was not the sort of book for me to read at present.
In an unwise moment we begged the draper's wife to honour us with a visit and explain the obliquities of the kitchen range and the tortuosities of the sink-spout to Miss Grieve.
"Let us go back there and pass the night, trying thus the bed and breakfast, with a view to seeing what they are like although they did say in Edinburgh that nobody thinks of living in these wayside hostelries." Back we went, accordingly, and after ordering dinner came out and strolled idly up the main street. A small sign in the draper's window, heretofore overlooked, caught our eye.
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