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Gjert's adventure with Beck's grandson had made him a different man to-day, and had immeasurably lightened for the time his wife's task; but she was very careful not to let him see that she found him any different from usual. Still, as she helped him off with his pilot-coat he noticed that her hand trembled.
"Is it true that Elizabeth left Beck's like that and went to Holland?" "How do you mean like that?" she asked, sharply, while her face flushed slightly. "As people say," replied Salvé, with bitter emphasis. "When people say it, a fool like you of course must believe it," she rejoined, derisively.
The Wallencampers were quick to note the estrangement between us, and affirmed that "Beck was mad, and wouldn't speak to teacher, along o' teacher's goin' with Beck's beau." This gratuitous solution of the mystery was not evolved in my presence.
Oh, yes, Beck's a great creature; that's all, now that's all. Come in to breakfast, and now you shall know what a fresh egg means, for we have lots of poultry." "Many thanks to you, Mr. Roberts, I and my ould woman know that." "Tut nonsense, man; lots of poultry, I say always a pig or two, and never without a ham or a flitch, you old dog.
As to Ginevra Fanshawe, that bright young creature was not gentle at all, and would certainly have pulled me out of my chair, if she had meddled in the matter. I said at last: "It is Madame Beck's doing; she has come in, seen me asleep, and thought I might take cold. She considers me a useful machine, answering well the purpose for which it was hired; so would not have me needlessly injured.
One day Betty was looking over from Mary Beck's and saw that the east window and the pear-tree branch were in plain sight; so the two girls invented a system of signals: one white handkerchief meant come over, and two meant no, but a single one in answer was for yes.
Were there not those whom it might touch more nearly? After all, who may this young girl, this Justine Marie, be? Not a stranger, reader; she is known to me by sight; she visits at the Rue Fossette: she is often of Madame Beck's Sunday parties.
Beck's Gazetteer published in 1823 five years after the admission of the State into the Union contains the following: "Chicago, a village of Pike County, situated on Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Chicago Creek. It contains twelve or fifteen houses, and about sixty or seventy inhabitants."
At last the captain came with Captain Beck to collect the passage money, which proved to be thirty-seven cents. "Where did you say you was goin' to stop in Tideshead?" asked Captain Beck. "I'm going to Miss Leicester's. Don't you remember me? Aren't you Mary Beck's grandfather? I'm Betty Leicester." "Toe be sure, toe be sure," said the old gentleman, much pleased.
But the receiver in the like is no better than the stealer," she resumed, indignantly; "and I'd have you know, it was just Beck's own daughter who came here and offered Elizabeth a respectable place in a respectable house, and it was to me she talked, my lad," pointing self-consciously with quivering forefinger at her own bosom; "so Elizabeth has not begged herself in there at all.
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