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But she had been caught begging the other side of Glossop by a policeman, who was a native of Clough End and knew all about her. 'He made me come along back, but he must have got the mark on his wrist still where I bit him, I should think, remarked Miss Louie, with a satisfaction untouched apparently by the lapse of time. The next attempt had been more serious.
His hands and dress were daubed with clay, and he had the brutal look of a man in the blackest of tempers. But no sooner did he perceive Louie Grieve's stately figure in the passage than his expression changed. 'You you here! and for a sitting? She nodded, smiling. Her look had an excitement which he perceived at once.
When she had finished her supply of meat and suet-pudding, after a meal during which no one of the three persons at table had uttered a word, Louie abruptly pushed her plate back again towards Hannah. 'David! was all she said. 'Mind your manners, miss, said Hannah, angrily.
His thoughts were often occupied now with Louie, but in a saner way. He could no longer, without morbidness, take on himself the whole responsibility of her miserable marriage. Human beings after all are what they make themselves.
There for a year things went fairly well with him. His boy and girl, whom he paid a neighbour to look after during the day, made something to come home to. As he helped the boy, who was already at school, with his lesson for the next day, or fed Louie, perched on his knee, with the bits from his plate demanded by her covetous eyes and open mouth, he got back, little by little, his self-respect.
And rising, Reuben bent towards his niece. She rose on tiptoe, and just touched his rough cheek. There was no natural childish effusiveness in the action. For the seven years since she left her father, Louie had quite unlearnt kissing. Reuben proceeded up the lane to the gate leading to the moor. He was in the highest spirits. What a mercy he had not bothered Hannah with Mr. Ancrum's remarks!
But others have suffered, Louie no less and yet have believed have hoped. It is not beyond our power for it has been done again and again! by the most weak, the most miserable. Oh! think of that tear yourself first from the evil life and you, too, will know what it is to be consoled to be strengthened. The mere effort to come with me I promise it you! will bring you healing and comfort.
Nor had she ever lost her earliest impression of strong dislike which had come upon her immediately afterwards, when Louie and Reuben had mounted to Dora's sitting-room, and she, Lucy, had angrily told the quick-fingered, bold-eyed girl who claimed to be David Grieve's sister not to touch Dora's work.
"Pan, thet there girl is Louie Melliss!" ejaculated Moran. "Is it? Well, who in the deuce is she?" "Say, cowboy, quit your foolin'!" "Honest, I never saw or heard of the young lady till a few minutes ago. Ask Brown." "That's a fact," corroborated Brown, thus appealed to. "She's the belle of this hell. Sure, Smith, you savvy that?" "No," rejoined Pan bluntly.
Her table manners are passable. I do suppose she has picked up a good deal at Mrs. Barrington's. But she has a rather uncertain air, and we shall have to hunt her up some clothes. I must talk to your mother about it." "Oh, dear, what a fuss there will be at school; I wish it was all over! I do wonder what Louie Howe will say! We had some talks well, I could see how some of the girls felt."