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You might tell 'em that you tried to pump me and the pump wouldn't work 'cause it needed packin'." After this, Mrs. Roscoe-Jones felt that there was nothing left for her to do but retire from the scene; so she crossed the road. When Mrs. Burke began the actual work on the rectory she quickly realized what she had to cope with.
"I'm afraid they'll have to survive the shock somehow or other; a man has to dress according to his work." "Hm! Now there's that there Mrs. Roscoe-Jones and Miss Bascom; I'll bet if they saw you in that rig they'd throw a fit." "Oh no; it isn't as bad as that, Danny." "They'd think you'd been disgraced for life, to become a laborin' man, you bet." "A what?" "A laborin' man."
I am going to wash some lace curtains for Mrs. Roscoe-Jones, and that will keep me out of mischief. Now, if you will allow me, I am going to tear up that sermon on foreign missions, and start a little home mission of my own by sending you to bed."
Roscoe-Jones, by virtue of her long intimacy with Hepsey and her assured social position in Durford's thirty gentry, felt that she was entitled to some definite information; and so, as they walked back from church one Wednesday afternoon, she remarked: "I hear that the parish is going to repair the rectory, and that you are taking a great interest in it.
He is a modest man and wouldn't like to be caught in the act of signing a check for anybody else. It might seem showy." "Yes, I understand," Mrs. Roscoe-Jones retorted dryly; "but under the circumstances, that is " "Under what circumstances?" Mrs. Burke inquired quickly. "Oh, considering that Mr. Bascom is Virginia's father and would want to make her comfortable, you know " "No, I don't know.
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