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I broke it off because he was in that Chartist lot, and I knew as Mr. Baines would never stand that. Now he's asked me again. He's been a widower this long time." "I'm sure I hope you'll be happy, Maggie. But what about his habits?" "He won't have no habits with me, Mrs. Povey." A woman was definitely emerging from the drudge.
Baines, bringing her vast form to the table and picking up a ticket. Mr. Povey said nothing. Constance said: "Mr. Povey thought of it to-day. Don't you think it's very good, mother?" "I'm afraid I don't," Mrs. Baines coldly replied.
That'll mount to a consid'able sum every year, eh?" "It'll amount to so much," said Johnnie, gazing ruefully at his client, "that there'll be the devil to pay. You'll pull every railroad in the state down around your ears." "Let 'em drop." "And I don't know if the law'll hold water even if you got it passed. It's darn-fool legislation, Mr. Baines but some darn-fool legislation sticks.
Every gentleman here knows, I suppose, how important a place the Congregational Union holds among the Nonconformists, and how prominent a part Mr Edward Baines has taken in opposition to State education. A Committee of the Congregational Union drew up last year a report on the subject of education.
Baines to herself with mild grimness; and aloud: "I can't stay in the shop long, Constance, but you can be there, can't you, till Mr. Povey comes back? And if anything happens run upstairs and tell me." "Yes, mother," Constance eagerly consented. She hesitated and then turned to obey at once. "I want to speak to you first, my pet," Mrs. Baines stopped her.
'Miss Beechinor, ye will let us in I charge ye. 'It's useless, Mr. Baines. 'I'll break the door down. I'm a strong man, and a determined. Ye are carrying things too far. In another moment the two men heard the creak of the bolts. Mary stood before them, vaguely discernible, but a forbidding figure. 'If you must come upstairs, she said coldly. 'Stay here in the passage, Arthur, said Mr.
And very vaguely, with an uneasiness scarcely perceptible, she remembered that 'he, and no other, had been in the shop on the day her husband died. The uneasiness of Mrs. Baines flowed and ebbed, during the next three months, influenced by Sophia's moods. There were days when Sophia was the old Sophia the forbidding, difficult, waspish, and even hedgehog Sophia.
If the Free Library had not formed part of the Famous Wedgwood Institution, which had been opened with immense eclat by the semi-divine Gladstone; if the first book had not been ceremoniously 'taken out' of the Free Library by the Chief Bailiff in person a grandfather of stainless renown Mrs. Baines would probably have risked her authority in forbidding the Free Library.
Murley, who had a genuine mediaeval passion for souls, and who spent his money and health freely in gratifying the passion, had accepted the offer strictly on behalf of Christ, and had carefully explained to Mr. Povey Christ's use for multifarious pockets. "I see you are," said Mrs. Baines tartly. "But that's no reason why you should be without a coat and in this cold room too.
She blushed, but she blushed happily, and really made a most creditable debut as a young lady. Her mother rewarded her by taking her into the conversation. And history was soon made. So Sophia was apprenticed to Miss Aline Chetwynd. Mrs. Baines bore herself greatly.
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