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'Still, as modern tastes develop, people require more room to gratify them in, she said, withdrawing to call the children; and serenely bidding him good afternoon she went on her way. Barnet's life at this period was singularly lonely, and yet he was happier than he could have expected.
Barnet's battalion was sent through the Sedan country to a place called Virton, and thence to a point in the woods on the line to Jemelle.
From Sadie Barnet's heart, weakening her like loss of blood, flowed her tears. She kissed the heart of Edith Worte where it beat like a clock beneath the high-necked nightdress; she made of her bosom a pillow of mercy and drew the head up to its warmth. "I I promise, Dee Dee, on her curl of hair. Sure I promise. Always will I keep you with me, darling, always, always, so help me, always."
Sadie Barnet's own mid-aisle bin had blossomed into a sacrificial sale of lawn remnants, and toward the close of the day her stock lay low, depleted. Max Meltzer leaned out of his bower, and how muted his voice, as if it came from an inner throat that only spoke when the heart bade it. "Little one, them remnants went like hot cakes, didn't they?" "Hot cakes! Well, I guess.
The partitions which had been probed by Barnet's walking-stick when the mortar was green, were now quite brown with the antiquity of their varnish, and the ornamental woodwork of the staircase, which had glistened with a pale yellow newness when first erected, was now of a rich wine-colour.
Here, though his family had no more to do with the flax manufacture, his own name occasionally greeted him on gates and warehouses, being used allusively by small rising tradesmen as a recommendation, in such words as 'Smith, from Barnet & Co. 'Robinson, late manager at Barnet's. The sight led him to reflect upon his father's busy life, and he questioned if it had not been far happier than his own.
At that moment there passed along the street a tall commanding lady, in whom the solicitor recognized Barnet's wife. Barnet had done the same thing, and turned away. 'It will be all right some day, said Downe, with cheering sympathy. 'You have heard, then, of her last outbreak? Downe depressed his cheerfulness to its very reverse in a moment.
Barnet's society, who has of course been accustomed to London people of good position, which made Emily fearful of intruding. Barnet expressed his warmest thanks for the well-intentioned proposition. There was reason in Mrs. Downe's fear that he owned. 'But do let her call, he said. 'There is no woman in England I would so soon trust on such an errand.
He sat and watched the working-people making their deposits, to which at intervals he signed his name. Before he left in the afternoon Downe put his head inside the door. 'Emily has seen Mrs. Barnet, he said, in a low voice. 'She has got Mrs. Barnet's promise to take her for a drive down to the shore to-morrow, if it is fine. Good afternoon!
Barnet's face acquired a warmer shade of colour; but as the question had been idly asked by the solicitor while regarding the surrounding flocks and fields, he answered after a moment with no apparent embarrassment 'Well, we wanted to get out of the town, you know: the house I am living in is rather old and inconvenient. Mr. Downe declared that he had chosen a pretty site for the new building.
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