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Then Bella's father had to hear what had happened, and said his daughter had done well. "To think," said Wilfer, looking round the office, "that anything of a tender nature should come off here is what tickles me." A few weeks later and Bella and her father went out early one morning and took the steamer to Greenwich.
And now this is the end." She had risen and was pacing the floor wildly. "Mrs. Dunlap," she cried, pausing before Constance, "to-day I am nothing more nor less than a 'capper, as they call it, for a gambling resort." She was almost hysterical. The contrast with the gay, respectable, prosperous-looking woman at Bella's was appalling.
But John Chetwynd was far from being this. He had felt his wife's desertion far too deeply to show his scars, nor was he a man to wear his heart upon his sleeve; but as time went by and the utter callousness of Bella's conduct came home to him, he realised to the full that she was unworthy of a single pang, and he became reconciled to the inevitable.
Have I led up to it? Bella's hand was round his neck by this time, and her face was on it. 'The mercenary young person distantly related to myself, said her good father, 'did well! The mercenary young person distantly related to myself, did not trust to me in vain!
Putting them into Bella's hand, she said, in a winning way, "Take them to your mother, then, and ask her if I may have the pleasure of making her a daily nosegay; for I should find real delight in doing it, if it would please her." "How kind you are! Of course it would please her. I'll take them to her while the dew is still on them."
Pete lay on the floor in the living-room not far from his brother's hiding-place lay there rigid and feverish, staring at the night. Sylvie, at Bella's side, slept no better. Her imagination went over and over the story of Ham Rutherford's crime. She saw the little dark bookshop, the professor's thin, sneering face, the hideous anger of the cripple, the blow, the dead body, Rutherford's arrest.
"Don't you see what a position I am in? I am not going upstairs to face Anne and the rest of them. You can just put me in the coal cellar." "Isn't there a window you could get through?" I asked desperately. "Locking the door doesn't shut up a whole house." Bella's courage revived at that, and she said yes, there were windows, plenty of them, only she didn't see how she could get out.
Lilac's work increased; other people beside Mrs Greenways discovered the advantage of her willing hands, and were glad to put some of their own business into them. Thus the care of the poultry, which had been shuffled off Bella's shoulders on to Agnetta, now descended from her to Lilac, the number of eggs brought in much increasing in consequence.
I hope he will be calling soon. He will be so pleased to see my little ones." "I hope he will be here to-morrow, for I have a question or two to ask him about myself of some consequence. And, my dear, whenever he comes, you had better let him look at little Bella's throat." "Oh! my dear sir, her throat is so much better that I have hardly any uneasiness about it.
He had heard from Bella's own lips when he stood tapping at the door on that night of his taking the lodgings, that the marriage would have been on her part thoroughly mercenary. He had since tried her, in his own unknown person and supposed station, and she not only rejected his advances but resented them. Was it for him to have the shame of buying her, or the meanness of punishing her?
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