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From the dining-room window Mrs Yule was aware of this arrival, and in a few moments she learnt the unspeakable cause. She burst into tears, genuine as ever woman shed. 'There's no use in that, mother, said Amy, whose temper was in a dangerous state. 'Nothing worse can happen, that's one consolation. 'Oh, it's disgraceful! disgraceful! sobbed Mrs Yule. 'What we are to say I can NOT think.
Here in America is the smelting pot of nations and we are uniting once more in one race the scattered children of the Aryan stack. Each child brings as play what was once worship Saxon, Celtic, Greek or Latin, all uniting again in the Christmas celebration and each bringing his fagot for the lighting of the Yule log, which burns on Christmas Eve.
At the end of that time he would have been earning enough to continue at pretty much the same rate of expenditure. 'Perhaps. 'Well, I ought rather to say that the average man of letters would be able to do that. As for Reardon He stopped. The name had escaped him unawares. 'Reardon? said Marian, looking up. 'You are speaking of him? 'I have betrayed myself Miss Yule.
But New Grub Street is rich in memorable characters and situations to an extent unusual in Gissing; Biffen in his garret a piece of genre almost worthy of Dickens; Reardon the sterile plotter, listening in despair to the neighbouring workhouse clock of St. Mary-le-bone; the matutinal interview between Alfred Yule and the threadbare surgeon, a vignette worthy of Smollett.
"There must be some reason for this great change in you. Come, tell me, dear." With a motherly gesture Miss Yule drew the girl to her knee, brushed back the bright hair, and looked into the face so freely turned to hers. Through all the years they had been together, the elder sister had never seen before the expression which the younger's face now wore.
Cattle and sheep were snug and safe in the byres, guarded by the wise watch-dogs. Very far away in the woods an owl hooted. It was the beginning of Yule, in that breathing-time before the holiday begins, when one gets the fine aroma of its pleasure. The festivities this year would be greater than ever before, for a new banquet-hall was to be opened with the Christmas feast.
Saloon doors were slamming and bare-legged urchins, carrying beer-jugs, hugged the walls close for shelter. From the depths of a blind alley floated out the discordant strains of a vagabond brass band "blowing in" the yule of the poor. Banished by police ordinance from the street, it reaped a scant harvest of pennies for Christmas-cheer from the windows opening on the backyard.
Then, as the hot-tempered gentleman warmed his coat tails at the Yule log, a grim smile stole over his features as he listened to the sounds in the room. In the darkness the blue flames leaped and danced, the raisins were snapped and snatched from hand to hand, scattering fragments of flame hither and thither.
The victory of Talana had indeed been won but the victors were exhausted by it and unfit to stand up to Erasmus on Impati. It became necessary for Yule to disappear immediately and stealthily. On October 23 soon after midnight the maimed and harassed force slipped quietly away and trudged wearily to the south.
Jasper and his sister could not think it likely that Marian had suffered much from grief at her uncle's death; practically John Yule was a stranger to her. Yet her face bore the signs of acute mental trouble, and it seemed as if some agitation made it difficult for her to speak.
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