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"I was just passing through," I said finally, looking at my watch, "and happened to see you. I hope your mother is well?" "As well as is to be expected, surrounded by people who watch every act," he replied, I thought with a rap at us for having Norton about and so active, though I could not be sure.
Oh, to make up by bitter self-punishment my ingratitude to her who has been leading me unseen, for years, home to her bosom! The all-prevailing mother, daughter of Gabriel, spouse of Deity, flower of the earth, whom I have so long despised!
How Aristobulus, When He Had Taken The Government First Of All Put A Diadem On His Head, And Was Most Barbarously Cruel To His Mother And His Brethren; And How, After He Had Slain Antigonus, He Himself Died.
I'm ashamed o' ye. . . . Climb aboard, ye fools and ithers. She'll do five miles on what she has, and in three miles she'll be cutting' out twenty. . . . For the sake o' me dead and buried mother, somebody sit on that barrel or we'll be one short in the foight! I got to work in this cab! He's gone daffy! He'll miss the fireplace some time and set the bush on fire!"
"And what," said my mother, with a peculiar smile, "is the nature of this compound?" "Violently explosive," said I. "Ah, of course, I might have guessed that, Jeff, for most of your compounds are either violently explosive or offensive sometimes both; but what is the name of this one?"
"Do you mean to charge the lady anything?" he asked. "The money I've got on the ring isn't much. Mother won't like having it taken out of her rent." "I won't charge the lady a farthing," I answered. The boy instantly got into the cab. "All right," he said, "as long as mother gets her money." Alas for the poor!
His mother had been no better than she should be, so people said, but she was dead now, and the father at any rate must be a rich gentleman, for he sent the boy a present of ten whole crowns every Christmas, so that Peer always had money in his pocket. Naturally, then, he was looked up to by the other boys, and took the lead in all things as a chieftain by right.
"I trust, venerable mother," he said, "that you will resume your former kind thoughts of me, which I am aware were only interrupted by your tender anxiety for the interest of her who should be dearest to us both.
The Colonel went straight to the stairs and cried in a loud voice: "Beatrice!" The tone thrilled Mary Louise with a premonition of evil. A door was hastily opened and her mother appeared at the head of the stairs, looking down on them with the customary anxiety on her worn features doubly accentuated. "Again, father?" she asked in a voice that slightly trembled. "Yes.
And Catherine exclaimed: "It is it is you!" and coming forward and taking her by the hand, she gazed with astonishment at the wan face and miserable attire of the work-woman. "You," she kept repeating. "Lettice! Lettice Arnold! Good Heavens! Where is your father? your mother? your sister?" "Gone," said the poor girl, "all gone but poor Myra!" "And where is she?
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