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She paid just as little attention to the advice of her female friends and neighbours, when they said: 'Let the children shift for themselves really, they're quite brazen enough to do it and take in a couple of paying lodgers. 'No, no, Mam Hansen would reply; 'as long as they have some kind of a home with me, the police will not get a firm grip of them, and they will not quite flow over.
"There is some good there," he said tapping his heart; "I have never betrayed any one! Look you here, you slut," he said to the old maid, "they are all afraid of me, do you see? but the sight of you turns them sick. Rake in your gains." He was silent for a moment, and looked round at the lodgers' faces. "What dolts you are, all of you! Have you never seen a convict before?
It has suited me lately to live in lodgings, but there's no knowing whether I mayn't fall lower than that yet, and have " but here she stopped herself, and looking over at Mr Cradell nodded her head. "And have to let them," said Mrs Roper. "I hope you'll be more lucky with your lodgers than I have been with some of mine. Jemima, hand the potatoes to Miss Spruce.
She was now pretty thoroughly convinced that the storm had been responsible for the groans and that the rest had been due to her imagination. However, she determined to let that room and the larger one adjoining last of all; she would take no chances with the lodgers, she couldn't afford it.
'Confound these fellows! thought Nicholas; 'they have come to breakfast, I suppose. I'll open the door directly, if you'll wait an instant. The gentlemen entreated him not to hurry himself; and, to beguile the interval, had a fencing bout with their walking-sticks on the very small landing-place: to the unspeakable discomposure of all the other lodgers downstairs.
Miss Taggart was not very friendly with Mrs. Poulter and Mr. Goacher, and despised Mrs. Mudge because she was low-bred. Miss Everard Miss Taggart dreaded, and accused her of being vicious and spiteful. It was still early in December, but the lodgers in Russell House who had nothing to do that is to say all of them excepting Miss Everard were making plans for Christmas.
Thus, the fifth-floor lodgers turn up their noses at the inhabitants of the attics; while the fifth-floor is in its turn scorned by the fourth, and the fourth is despised by the third, and the third by the second, down to the magnificent dwellers on the premier étage, who live in majestic disdain of everybody above or beneath them, from the grisettes in the garret, to the concierge who has care of the cellars.
And she gave her own account of that night on which John Crumb and Mr Mixet ate their supper at the farm, and of the manner in which her grandfather had treated her because she would not have John Crumb. Mrs Pipkin was a respectable woman in her way, always preferring respectable lodgers if she could get them; but bound to live. She gave Ruby very good advice.
"The wife of the barber, then ?" "Indubitably. As you say. The wife of the barber receives a small stipend to take care of her. So much by the month. Eh, then! It is without doubt very little, for we are all poor here." "You are not poor, madame." "As to my lodgers," replied Madame Bouclet, with a smiling and a gracious bend of her head, "no. As to all things else, so-so."
The first two or three flights of stairs were thickly strewn with mud and dust from the feet of the different lodgers; but when Pollie reached the last landing she felt it was home indeed. The stairs were as clean and white as hands could scrub them no dirt was to be seen here, and outside her mother's door was a little mat on which to rub the shoes before entering.
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