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Updated: May 25, 2025
But as we sat together in the old apple-room above the stables, I confided to her my "unfortunate attachment," which I had now sufficiently recovered from not to be offended by her opinion, that it was all for the best that it had ended as it had. I do not remember exactly how it was that I came to know that Polly even Polly had her own private heart-ache.
'I cannot let you stay here, I said; 'it is altogether impossible. Do you suppose that I can fight, with you among the bullets, Lorna? If this is the way you mean to take it, we had better go both to the apple-room, and lock ourselves in, and hide under the tiles, and let them burn all the rest of the premises. At this idea Lorna laughed, as I could see by the moonlight; and then she said,
'Why it was old Sellers, the greengrocer, gave him to me, said Jack, 'him as has a shop in Newcastle Street; he called me in and he says, "Do you want a job, my lad?" and when I told him "Yes, I do," he set me to clean out his apple-room, where he stores his apples in winter. So he took me in, and it was a sight such a sight as you never saw, Poppy! Scores of 'em all rotten and smelling.
This mistake of his cost Dinah a circuit by way of the apple-room every time she answered the porch bell; for as little as any porter of old in a border fortress would she have dreamed of admitting a visitor without first making reconnaissance. A minute later she ran back and thrust her head in at the kitchen-door. "Mistress," she whispered excitedly, "it's them!"
My mother fell grievously on a slide, which John Fry had made nigh the apple-room door, and hidden with straw from the stable, to cover his own great idleness. My father laid John's nose on the ice, and kept him warm in spite of it; but it was too late for Eliza. She was born next day with more mind than body the worst thing that can befall a man.
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