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The machines clanked in threefour time. Thump, thump, thump. Now if he got paralysed there and no-one knew how to stop them they'd clank on and on the same, print it over and over and up and back. Monkeydoodle the whole thing. Want a cool head. Well, get it into the evening edition, councillor, Hynes said. Soon be calling him my lord mayor. Long John is backing him, they say.
No-one dared say anything to him, himself let them try if they dared! The rag and bone man's fingers tingled when he heard all this backbiting why couldn't he and his be allowed to go in peace. He wouldn't mind catching one of the rogues red-handed. He would knock him down in cold blood, whatever the consequences might be. Kristian now went to school too, in the infants' class.
'Hard luck for a poor chap with no-one to speak to. Going back again; so soon too. 'Well, if you don't mind I might go down tomorrow for a couple of days, and take Dilly. 'Do, said Bruce eagerly; 'do the kid good. Edith looked at him closely. 'Wouldn't you miss her, now that Archie's at school too? Wouldn't the house seem very quiet? 'Not a bit! exclaimed Bruce with emphatic sincerity.
She was glad that something told her to put on the transparent stockings thinking Reggy Wylie might be out but that was far away. Here was that of which she had so often dreamed. It was he who mattered and there was joy on her face because she wanted him because she felt instinctively that he was like no-one else.
The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides.
Frivolous friends of his who did not know her might amuse themselves by being humorous and flippant about Vincy's little Ottleys, but no-one who had ever seen them together could possibly make a mistake. They were an example of the absurdity of a tradition 'the world's' proneness to calumny. Such friendships, when genuine, are never misconstrued.
The truth's not always wanted, and least of all from a servant: the less they have to say the better they get on. Just you keep quiet and think what you like that no-one can forbid you. And then you know, you've always got a home here if you're turned out of your place. You must never leave before your term is up; it's a bad thing to do whatever you do it for. Rather bear a little unfairness."
He took care that no-one was hungry or cold, and set up a store which supplied all that was needed on credit. It was all entered in the books, no doubt, but none of them ever knew how much he owed. But they did not care, and went on buying until he stopped their credit for a time. On the other hand, if anything were really wrong in one of the huts, he would step in and help.
Bruce's neighbour at dinner was the delicate, battered-looking actress, in a Royal fringe and a tight bodice with short sleeves, who had once been a celebrity, though no-one remembered for what. Miss Myra Mooney, formerly a beauty, had known her days of success. She had been the supreme performer of ladylike parts. She had been known as the very quintessence of refinement.
I shall invent a story to account for his absence. No-one need know. But, of course, if, later I mean if he persists 'Oh, Edith, don't be a fool! You're throwing away our happiness when you've got it in your hand. 'There are some things that one can't do. said Edith. 'It goes against the grain. I can't take advantage of his folly to make the path smoother for myself.
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