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From blandishments he had even gone to threats threats that whether she would or not she should be his; he showed an indifference that was most insulting to everything which might attract attention and injure her character. *Knob-sticks; those who consent to work at lower wages. And still she never saw Jem. She knew he had returned home.
He stood on the door-sill, and gazed after me with a hopeless expression. "I s'pose you mun have your way, sir; but Mr. Halifax said, 'Jem, you stop y'ere, and y'ere I stop." He went in, and I heard him bolting the door, with a sullen determination, as if he would have kept guard against it waiting for John until doomsday. I stole along the dark alley into the street.
'I wonder what sort of a spade he'll have got for us. When tea was over, the door opened suddenly, and we looked up, expecting to see Jem enter with our purchases. But it was not Jem; it was his wife. 'Sandy, she said, 'what time do you make it? My clock's stopped! 'Twenty minutes past six, said my grandfather, looking at his watch. 'Past six! she repeated. 'Why, Jem's very late!
"'Hut! said the other, 'what could we expect from a proud piece like her, that brings a Manwill* to mass every Sunday, purtending she can read in it, and Jem Finigan saw the wrong side of the book towards her, the Sunday of the Purcession! * Manuel a Catholic Prayer-book.
Before we went, I took my Lady Jem. apart, and would know how she liked this gentleman, and whether she was under any difficulty concerning him. She blushed, and hid her face awhile; but at last I forced her to tell me. She answered that she could readily obey what her father and mother had done; which was all she could say, or I expect. So anon I took leave, and for London.
After all, could anything more suitable happen to her than that she should take a fancy to Jem Noonan, the upstanding, square-jawed, taciturn youth who had appeared at the Dabney House in his Sunday blacks one night in May, and had reappeared regularly once a week since?
"And pray, may I ask, which was the favoured lover?" went on the barrister. A look of indignation for an instant contracted Mary's brow. She was aware that Jem had raised his head and was gazing at her. Turning towards the judge, she said steadily, "Perhaps I liked Mr. Harry Carson once; but I loved James Wilson beyond what tongue can tell.
"China?" said Jem, sitting up sharply. "China?" "Yes, China. What of that?" "China!" cried Jem. "Why, I thought we were sailing round to Plymouth or Portsmouth, or some place like that. China?" "We're going straight away or China, my lad, to be on that station for some time." "And when are we coming back, sir?" "In about three years."
Two long coils of rope having been brought by Baggiley, one of them was made fast to the right arm of the victim, and the other to the left; and this done, Jem Device, shouting to Sparshot to look out, flung one coil of rope across the river, where it was caught with much dexterity by the beadle.
Late or early, she was never certain of being free from him. Go this way or that, he might come up some cross street when she had just congratulated herself on evading him for that day. He could not have taken a surer mode of making himself odious to her. And all this time Jem Wilson never came!
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