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Just look out into the yard, and see whether there's a boy standing on his head. 'No, sir, replied Nell. 'He's on his feet. 'You're sure he is? said Quilp. 'Well. Now, come in and shut the door. What's your message, Nelly? The child handed him a letter.
I stayed for a long time, until the press had broken, and we were going on at full speed once more. Then I went to a window of the kitchen, which Phyllis so much admired, and looked out. I could see the deck of "Mascotte," and Brederode and Nell, who were still alone there together. "Well, well!" I repeated idiotically; "it's I who did that. If it hadn't been for me but I don't know.
Martin would be waiting at their house to greet the Bobbseys. It was dark, now, and the lighted lamps made the snow sparkle like a million diamonds. "Oh, it's just lovely!" sighed Nan, as she leaned back against the cushions and peered from the window. "It looks just like a fairy play out there," and Nell pointed to the glittering snow.
You can see a piece of the church-clock, through the chimneys, and almost tell the time; mother says it would be just the thing for you, and so it would, and you'd have her to wait upon you both, and me to run of errands. We don't mean money, bless you; you're not to think of that! Will you try him, Miss Nell? Only say you'll try him.
Then, with Nell's cordial approval, I put her to a first-rate school at Bath, where she remained until her eighteenth birthday, emerging therefrom a very beautiful, accomplished, and lovable young woman. Meanwhile, having disposed of Nell for the time being, I next turned my attention to the disposal of my treasure.
The people of the village, too, of whom there was not one but grew to have a fondness for poor Nell; even among them, there was the same feeling; a tenderness towards her a compassionate regard for her, increasing every day. The very schoolboys, light-hearted and thoughtless as they were, even they cared for her.
But of this little Nell knew nothing, or she would have implored him to give up the wicked and dangerous pastime. Nor did she know that it was from Quilp, a strange, rich, little dwarf, who had many trades and callings, that her grandfather was borrowing the money which he staked nightly in hopes of winning more, pledging his little stock as security for the debt.
No matter what we read or heard about standing by our allies, fighting for liberty or civilization, the truth was we all felt the same, even if we never breathed it.... Glenn fought for you. I fought for Nell.... We were not going to let the Huns treat you as they treated French and Belgian girls.... And think! Nell was engaged to me she loved me and, by God!
It may be that Lord Vernon had been so fortunate as to find a topic of conversation equally absorbing; at any rate, Nell entered the hotel with her sister rather subdued and tremulous, and they mounted to their rooms in silence.
How well I knew the whole scene from photographs! the bell-like figures of the women; the booths in the big market square; and the cool arcades of the butter-market. How well I knew, too, that neither Phyllis and Robert, nor Rudolph and Nell would see anything at all, or remember it, if by accident they did see aught save each other. "This," I said to myself, "is the end.
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