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"That's because you 've got sense," said Steve. She dropped her eyes and ate. When this remark had had time to pass over, Janet's sociable spirit, never self-conscious for long, began to unfold its leaves and raise its stems and lift up its branches again. In this juncture, the dog profited.
There is a thing I have not got courage to face without necessity, and that's Janet's triumphant pity. Mr. Dutton lives rather too near your uncle, but he is a man, and he can't be so bad. This of course did not pass till Mr. Dutton had gone in to greet the ladies next door, to promise to tell them of their child at length when the business hours of the day should be over. Shall it be told?
He then bowed to Miss Ogilvie, took his seat, handed in the appurtenances, received, showed, and pocketed the tickets, negotiated Janet's purchase of newspapers, and constituted himself altogether cavalier to the party. Sir James Evelyn!
Then as he lay in Janet's arms the angry little imps changed their stolen elfin knight into an adder, a snake, a bear, a lion, a toad, an eel, and still, through all these changes, the lady Janet held him fast. 'A blazing fagot! Let him change into a blazing fagot! cried the angry little folk. 'Then this foolish mortal will let our favorite knight alone.
The squire again did honour to Janet's eulogy and good management of him. 'And where, said she, 'would you find a Radical to behave so generously, Harry, when it touches him so? 'If you're to be a Whig, or a sneaking half-and-half, I can't help you much, he remarked.
Through Lise's degrading act she had arrived at the conclusion that all adventure and consequent suffering had to do with Man a conviction peculiarly maddening to such temperaments as Janet's. Therefore she interpreted her suffering in terms of Ditmar, she had looked forward to tormenting him again, and by departing he had deliberately balked and cheated her.
"I hope you're happy." "I couldn't be happier," Sally answered; then she dragged Janet upstairs to the room they had shared together for two years, and throwing her parcels presents that she had brought from abroad on to the bed, she twined her arms round Janet's slender neck and covered the thin, drawn face with kisses. One knows the endearments that such an occasion exacts.
Janet inquired concerning life at Brighton and the health of Sarah Gailey; Janet even mentioned George Cannon; Hilda steadied her voice in replying, though she was not really apprehensive, for Janet's questions, like the questions of the whole family, were invariably discreet and respectful of the individual's privacy.
Whether it was the uncertain response to Janet's tone merely, or to truth too loud to be heard, save as a thrill, of some chord in his own spirit, having its one end indeed twisted around an earthly peg, but the other looped to a tail-piece far in the unknown I cannot tell; it may have been that the name now and then recurring brought to his mind the last words of poor Sambo; anyhow, when Janet looked up, she saw the tears rolling down the child's face.
Incapable of enduring the position now forced upon her, Mercy put her hand into the pocket of her apron, and drew from it Lady Janet's letter. "Will your ladyship forgive me," she began, in faint, faltering tones, "if I venture on a painful subject?
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