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Wiggins's falling off a roof and breaking his neck, Tish was late in arriving, and I found Aggie sitting alone, dressed in black, with a tissue-paper bundle in her lap. I put my sheaf on the table and untied my bonnet-strings. "Where's Tish?" I asked. "Not here yet." Something in Aggie's tone made me look at her. She was eyeing the bundle in her lap.
But when to-morrow came it was he who was left. He was sitting in the room underneath Aggie's. He had a pen in his hand, and his mind was unusually calm and clear. He had just telegraphed to his brother that he couldn't go because Aggie was dead. Now he was trying to write to Aggie's mother to tell her to come because Aggie was dead. He had a great many things to see to because Aggie was dead.
Arthur comes before John and Susie, and he wants me." She had always been proud of that his wanting her; his inability to do without her. "I don't know," she said, "what he will have done without me all this time." Her mother looked at her sharply, a look that, though outwardly concentrated on Aggie, suggested much inward criticism of Aggie's husband.
This was too much, and just as he had seemed to be well out of complications for the remainder of his no doubt short life. He turned to bolt for the door but Aggie's eyes were upon him. "Luncheon?" exclaimed Aggie and she regarded him with a puzzled frown. Zoie's hand was already over her lips, but too late.
"No oh no, no!" and she began to wring her hands. "Told yer so," said the woman, and with a wicked grin she pointed to a memorial card which hung on the wall. Aggie's child was dead and buried. Diarrhoea! The doctor at the dispensary had given a certificate of death, and Charlie had shared the insurance money. "Wish to Christ it was ended!" he had said. He had been drunk ever since.
Aggie's maid having responded to the bell, Aggie ordered ice cream for Tufik and a chair drawn to the table; but the chair Tufik refused with a little, smiling bow. "It is not right that I sit," he said. "I stand in the presence of my three mothers. But first I forget my gift! For the sadness, Miss Pilk!" He held out the tissue-paper package and Aggie opened it.
"Very well, Lizzie," she said. "Don't blame me if you find yourself unable to cope with mountain hardships. I merely felt this way: if each of us could do one thing well it might be helpful. There's always snow, and if Aggie would learn to use snowshoes it might be valuable." "Where could I practice?" Aggie demanded. But Tish went on, ignoring Aggie's sarcastic tone.
The music one hears is of Damascus and he who dances now is a sheik among his people." Reassured as to the sounds, we stepped down into the basement. That was at four o'clock in the afternoon. I have never been fairly clear as to what followed and Aggie's memory is a complete blank. I remember a long, boarded-in and floored cellar, smelling very damp and lighted by flaring gas jets.
Walsham said, had received him very coolly, in consequence of the letter he had written when James was pressed as a seaman, and she said that Aggie seemed to have taken a great objection to him. She wondered, indeed, that he could stay an hour in the house after his reception there; but he seemed as if he didn't notice it, and took especial pains to try and overcome Aggie's feeling against him.
Three days later Queningford knew that Aggie was going to marry Arthur Gatty, and that John Hurst was going to marry Susie. Susie was not pretty, but she had eyes like Aggie's. After all, Susie was married before her eldest sister; for Aggie had to wait till Arthur's salary rose. He thought it was going to rise at midsummer, or if not at midsummer, then at Michaelmas.
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