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But we are all in the hands of Providence the business will improve, one day." He lifted his shoulders and lifted his eyebrows, and looked perfectly satisfied with his wife's prospects. "I will go and speak to Madame Toff myself, tomorrow morning," Amelius resumed. "It's quite possible that I may be obliged to leave London for a little while and I must provide in some way for Miss Sally.
The ever-ready Toff fetched a skewer from the kitchen, and picked the lock in two minutes. On lifting the cover, the box proved to be empty. The one person present who understood what this meant was Amelius. He remembered that Sally had taken her old threadbare clothes away with her in the box, when the angry landlady had insisted on his leaving the house.
The time passed and Amelius was still thinking, and still as far as ever from arriving at a conclusion, when he heard a door opened behind him. Sally crossed the room before he could rise from his chair: her cheeks were flushed, her eyes were bright, her hair fell loose over her shoulders she dropped at his feet, and hid her face on his knees.
"Have I said anything to make you angry with me?" she asked. Amelius hesitated no longer. "My poor girl," he said, "I pity you from the bottom of my heart! Sleep well, Simple Sally sleep well." He left her hurriedly, and shut the door between them. She followed him as far as the closed door; and stood there alone, trying to understand him, and trying all in vain!
Amelius looked up at him sharply. "You servants always make a fuss about trifles. I am a little out of sorts; and I want a change that's all. Perhaps I may go to America. You won't like that; I shan't complain if you look out for another situation." The tears came into the old man's eyes. "Never!" he answered fervently.
"My last service, sir, if you send me away, shall be my dearly loved service here." All that was most tender in the nature of Amelius was touched to the quick. "Forgive me, Toff," he said; "I am lonely and wretched, and more anxious about Sally than words can tell. There can be no change in my life, until my mind is easy about that poor little girl.
Farnaby has said No." Amelius jumped off the sofa, and planted himself defiantly on the hearthrug. "You're wrong for once," he said, with a bitter laugh. "The exasperating part of it is that Farnaby has said neither Yes nor No. The oily-whiskered brute you haven't seen him yet, have you? began by saying Yes.
He closed the last page of the noble story as Toff came in to lay the cloth for dinner. The master at table and the servant behind his chair were accustomed to gossip pleasantly during meals. Amelius did his best to carry on the talk as usual. But he was no longer in the delightful world of illusion which Scott had opened to him.
But I tell you this: after a child or two, that sort runs to fat, and you find you have married more of her than you bargained for. To what lengths may you have proceeded, Amelius, with this splendid and spanking person?" Amelius was just on the verge of taking offence. "Speak of her respectfully," he said, "if you expect me to answer you." Rufus stared in astonishment.
The policeman's view of the girl's position was beyond dispute. Amelius turned to her gently; she was shivering with cold or terror, perhaps with both. "Tell me," he said, "is that man really your father?" "Lord bless you, sir!" interposed the policeman, astonished at the gentleman's simplicity, "Simple Sally hasn't got father or mother have you, my girl?" She paid no heed to the policeman.
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